“Headshot” Japanese Theatrical Poster
Sylvester Stallone’s “action film” Production Company, Balboa Productions, is enlisting martial arts star Iko Uwais (The Raid 2, Triple Threat, Mile 22, Headshot) for The Bellhop.
Not much is known about the film’s plot, but if its title is any indication, we’re thinking Uwais will play an ass-kicking hotel attendant (Four Rooms meets The Raid?).
The company, which was formed in 2018 with producer Braden Aftergood (Hell or High Water), has a number of films in-the-works, including an an English-language remake of Lee Won-Tae’s The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil, as well as a biopic on Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight champion.
We’ll keep you updated as we learn more (via Variety/FCS). For now, here’s the Trailer for Uwais’ soon-to-be-release Netflix series, Wu Assassins:
Four Rooms meets The Raid? That would be too much to handle!
I hope Stallone shows more respect to Iko than he did Jet Li. After the way Jet was portrayed in Expendables 2&3 with the cheap short people jokes and never getting his comeuppance, I still wonder what was up with that.
Will probably be another goofy role for Iko Uwais no doubt!
The clock is ticking. He’s becoming the Billy Zane of action cinema. There’s only so many bad roles/films you get to play before the big studios give you the boot.