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Many years ago, veteran Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone acquired the film rights to a 1999 science fiction novel titled Hunter, written by James Byron Huggins. The Oscar-nominated actor-filmmaker purportedly intended to use the novel’s plot for ‘Rambo: Last Blood’. But later, the Rambo movie’s plot was changed to Rambo rescuing a girl from the clutches of a Mexican human trafficking gang, and it was released in 2019.
Even now, if Stallone somehow still makes the film, it could well be the grand theatrical comeback the Rocky actor must be hoping for. After delivering a critically acclaimed performance as Rocky Balboa in Creed II, the charismatic actor’s big-screen acting projects in the last few years have received a lacklustre response. He has starred in films like Backtrace, Escape Plan: The Extractors, Expend4bles, Armor, and Alarum, and all of them got not-so-encouraging feedback. Even ‘Rambo: The Last Blood’ couldn’t live up to the expectations of a Rambo franchise film.
It’s high time that Sylvester Stallone picks up a project that has the potential for the actor’s grand comeback to the big screen. And James Byron Huggins’s Hunter looks like the perfect content that should be adapted for the big screen. If you have read the novel or its plot, then you will know why we are saying that.
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