FIRST LOOK: Stalone And Schwarzenegger In 'THE TOMB'

Vincent D'Onofrio, Amy Ryan, Vinnie Jones And 50 Cent Join 'THE TOMB'

Variety reports that Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket), Vinnie Jones (Snatch), Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone, The Wire, The Office, Green Zone) have joined the action thriller The Tomb. It already stars Sly Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Caviezel which is set in a super prison with it's designer (Sly) framed for a crime he didn't commit. He uses his extensive knowledge of the prison's layout to escape with the help of fellow prisoners.

Sony Developing A Dracula Franchise

Hollywood seems to have found their new Snow White as a third Dracula project is now in development. Deadline reports that Sony Pictures has bought a pitch from writer Jason Keller focusing on a new untitled Dracula film. Details are scarce on the project but it's expected to be yet another origin story mixing the mythology of Dracula and real life Vlad The Impaler stories. The studio is aiming to develop this as a period piece franchise. It seems to have a bit of weight behind it with producer Joe Roth attached to it.

Roth is best known for producing Alice In Wonderland along with upcoming films Snow White And The Huntsman, Oz, The Great And Powerful and the Sleeping Beauty film Maleficent starring Angelina Jolie. Keller's credits are a mixed bag with films including the terrible looking Snow White cheese-fest Mirror, Mirror. Yet, he's also responsible for Machine Gun Preacher, rewrites on The Tomb (Stallone/Schwarzenegger) and a Michael Mann racing project Go Like Hell. It's interesting to see Keller and Roth working together as the pair worked on competing Snow White films recently.

There are two other Dracula focused films in the works. The first one from Warner Bros., Harker is less similar to this movie as Jonathan Harker a Scotland Yard detective focusing the trail of murders by Dracula being mistaken as a serial murderer. Universal's Dracula Year Zero seems to be the direct competition here as they both feature on the Vlad The Impaler connection. It's unknown at this point if this will be a more fantasy cutesy inspired Dracula take similar to Alice or darker in tone like Huntsman. One thing is for sure that the idea that it's being looked as a franchise means it's going to be a PG-13.

Jim Caviezel Joins Sly And Arnold In The Tomb

ACIN (via FlimStage) stumbled upon an interview with producer Mark Canton (Immortals) and he confirms the addition of Jim Caviezel in The Tomb. The prison thriller pits Sly Stallone against the super prison he designed when he is framed for a crime and has to escape the prison to figure why. One of the helpful inmates will be played Arnold Schwarzenegger of course. Caviezel (Passion of The Christ) is gathering a resurgence with television roles in The Prisoner and Person of Interest, he'll play the warden.

Rambo 5 Get's New Life

Back in the days before The Expendables was a smash-hit. It was expected that Rambo 5 was going to be priority for Sly Stallone. Some really odd rumored plots were released that included soldiers being enhanced in a lab with animal DNA which Rambo had to put down. Sly ended up making Expendables, Bullet To The Head and Expendables 2 since then. Screenwriter Sean Hood has given a brief update about the fifth installment via Twitter. Stating the project is on hold while Expendables 2 finishes production and Sly will decide if the film will be similar to "Unforgiven" or a "passing the torch" type film. The former is a que to Clint Eastwood's final western film which he made on his terms, directing and starring.

Currently, Stallone is wrapping things up on Expendables 2 and is about to start production on The Tomb alongside fellow action icon Arnold Schwarzenegger. Where Sly enlists the help of fellow inmates (Schwarzenegger) after he is sent to a super high-tech prison where he helped design after being framed for a crime he didn't commit.

Stallone is 65 years old and could only have a few more of these films left in him. It's only a matter of time before he get's seriously hurts from these action roles and has to retire from the genre. I would expect that he is going to be very picky with his final batch of films. Another Rambo film seems like the last thing he would want to do. 

Sly And Arnie Could Team Up Again For The Tomb

AICN reports that the Sly Stallone prison thriller The Tomb could be getting another legendary action star added to it's cast. They say that Arnold Schwarzenegger is circling another role in the movie as well. The two recently worked together on Expendables 2 and Arnold is currently wrapping production on The Last Stand. Stallone will play a high-tech prison designer who is framed and put into a prison he helped create. He tries to escape using his knowledge of the facility and figure out why he was framed. Arnold's role isn't revealed but I assume he could playing a fellow inmate.

Deadline reports that director Mikael Hafstrom is interested in helming the film. Hafstrom is best known for directing The Rite and 1408. Originally the project was set to star Bruce Willis with director Antonie Fuqua (Training Day).

Bruce Willis & Antoine Fuqua In Talks For The Tomb

Deadline reports that director Antoine Fuqua and Bruce Willis are in talks to work on the upcoming prison thriller The Tomb. I'm a big fan of Antoine Fuqua's films they always have great casts and excellent cinematography. I enjoy his crime-based films like The Replacement Killers, Training Day and Brooklyn's Finest. So a prison film sounds like it could fit perfectly with the director's style. I'm glad to see Bruce Willis banging out all these action roles before can't do them anymore. He's already lined up action films such as Red, Looper, Kane & Lynch and Die Hard 5. I think I could handle seeing Bruce doing these type of films well into his 70's similar to Sean Connery.


"Willis is in talks to play Ray Breslin, the world’s foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars."