For the first time, Sylvester Stallone becomes a superhero: ‘Samaritan’ on Amazon Prime Video

With an incredible sponsorship career and countless performances as one of Hollywood’s toughest and most indestructible, Sylvester Stallone, for the first time in his entire career, will become a superhero out of the ordinary what we commonly know as Marvel Cinematic Universe or DC Extended Universe, despite having already appeared in James Gunn’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” and will repeat for Vol. 3.

His debut will be in ‘Samaritan’, the new Amazon Prime Video which opens in August.

‘Julius Avery’s Samaritan ‘will be the film in which Stallone becomes a superhero for the first time in his entire career, a moment his fans and audiences have been waiting for for a long time and that seemed never to come to fruition, despite not having happened in the UCM or the DCEU. Here we will see him as a “modern and very human Hercules”, according to the actor himself.

Sylvester explained that his character gets confused from the traditional concept of conventional heroes we’ve been accustomed to through movies. It is not the first time that Amazon Prime Video has revolutionized the idea of ​​superheroes, it has already done so before and perhaps with its most marked concept, in ‘The Boys’, one of its most successful series that is emerging as a fourth. season.

“He’s a one-of-a-kind superhero, kind of like a human and mystical hero, just one of those guys you can identify with, who think, ‘oh well, he can die’ and who are neither from another universe nor they can fly.“, Sylvester Stallone mentions during a virtual conference on the tape, that It will premiere on August 26 on the Amazon Prime Video platform.

“Samaritan” breaks the mold of DC and Marvel superheroes

Dascha Polanco, Pilou Asbaek and Javon Walton make up the cast that accompanies Stallone in the story of ‘Samaritan’, a “worldly” superhero who has little to do with the protagonists of the iconic Marvel or DC films, a point that has become the incentive that Sylvester needed to play the role, the first superhero in his career and expected for many years.

A moment that could not be seen coming, and which also coincides with Dwayne Johnson’s foray into the universe of superheroes.

I hate to say it, but sometimes we become a product or a brand. People had seen me as “Rambo” or as “Rocky” and it’s nice that they see you on another record. “

He explains about the choice of this role, in which he plays “a normal person who does things that are not normal” and who “is at street level, outside of a fantastic universe”.

What is ‘Samaritan’ about? A new hero with mystical power and superior to Rambo

13-year-old Sam Clearly (Javon Walton) suspects his neighbor, the lonely Mr. Smith, is “Samaritan,” the former Granite City vigilante who was pronounced dead after a warehouse battle with his rival, Nemesis. With the city on the verge of chaos and crime skyrocketing, Sam will try to get his neighbor back into action.

Sharing the screen with a teenager like Walton became one of the most enriching things in the film for the actor.

Working with young people revives who you are. They get your wisdom and you get their energy, ”said Stallone, who has become a mentor to his co-star.

“When you play a role like that, you feel the emotions you had when you started your career, and that adds to your experience. I like acting more now than when I was thirty, when you think you know everything, sums up. the actor who, while playing a superhero for the first time, does so in the context of action, a genre of which he is a consecrated icon.

Because, for Stallone, action is a genre that, while usually shrouded in fiction, has a lot of reality. “I’ve had thirty-one operations for action films, so I think the action can be very real,” says the actor, fascinated “by the idea of ​​telling stories with emotions shared by all cultures and parts of the world.”

When I made “Rambo” I realized that by turning the volume down people were perfectly able to know what was going on in the film. At that moment I realized how important this genre can be, “adds the actor, who in ‘Samaritan’ is the one who has the voice that sings in terms of action.

Movies Society Needs: “You can’t be ‘Rambo'”

For the New Yorker of Italian descent, these types of films become “modern mythology”: “Society needs these figures, they are like gods“, he believes, even if in his opinion, it is more important that” invites us to reflect “on the possibilities of each person to” become his own hero “.

You have to love yourself, “says Stallone, a ‘mantra’ that has accompanied him, he says, as an” indispensable value “in life.

There comes a point where you realize you can’t be the 29 year old ‘Rambo’, because you also have the honor of being another age. And it’s nice to see you’re not who you were, but somehow you’re still there, ”explains the three-time Oscar-nominated actor (all for his role in“ Rocky ”).

Sylvester Stallone, also director of films such as ‘The Expendables’, in which he stars alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Jason Statham and Jet Le, for which he was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Director of the Year 2010, or the sequel to ‘Saturday Night Fever’ (1977), ‘Staying Alive’ (1983), also starring John Travolta, is sure to “enthusiastically” embrace this new role he “continues to learn” with at 76. (With information from EFE).