Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone has been in many sequels. But for every Rocky or Rambo, there's at least two or three characters who never got that second movie.

Stallone spoke to Variety of an intended sequel that sees Rocky take on an undocumented immigrant as a protégé, with this boxer providing a "timely" message to the franchise. Since then, the character was last seen in 2018's "Creed II," reconciling with his son Robert (Milo Ventimiglia) in Vancouver and meeting his grandson Logan for the first time. While the reported sequel plans were shelved, Stallone has continued to publicly voice his hopes to reprise his role as Walker in a follow-up. Among the projects that were shelved permanently by the corporate shakeup was the "Antz" sequel, with no word on a follow-up since. Instead, Stallone announced in 2019 that filmmaker Robert Rodriguez is developing a remake of "Cobra" for television, telling Fandango that the project is "[Rodriguez's] project now." Lambasted by critics and earning less than $35 million domestically, "Judge Dredd" torpedoed any sequel aspirations that the studio may have had, with its legacy haunting the 2012 reboot "Dredd." Stallone's last 1980s movie was the buddy-cop action movie "Tango & Cash," directed by Andrei Konchalovsky and pairing him with co-star Kurt Russell. The movie follows two narcotics detectives in the Los Angeles Police Department who are forced to work together to take on a deadly crime lord (Jack Palance) after he frames them for murder. After he is framed for murder by his genetic clone Rico (Armand Assante), Dredd is exiled, but returns to Mega-City One to clear his name and prevent Rico's deadly plot to plunge the city in chaos. With no update on if Stallone has successfully convinced Russell to rejoin him on the big screen, Raymond Tango and Gabriel Cash may have gone through an off-screen retirement. The Cannon Group, one of the studios behind "Cobra," planned to proceed with a sequel but, in the wake of financial issues that began with a string of box office disappointments and mounting debt, the project was shelved. One of the most iconic movie stars and filmmakers in the world is Sylvester Stallone, who has been thrilling millions of fans worldwide as an actor, screenwriter, and director on scores of projects for decades. Borne from Stallone's extensive rewrite of the "Beverly Hills Cop" script when he was initially attached to star, 1986's "Cobra" has the actor portray a very different kind of Los Angeles Police detective.