{"id":35762,"date":"2024-05-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35762"},"modified":"2024-05-14T17:52:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:52:38","slug":"the-specialist-1994-starring-sylvester-stallone-sharon-stone-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35762","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Specialist&#8221; (1994) starring Sylvester Stallone &amp; Sharon Stone \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z051624zview_specialist.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Specialist <\/strong><\/em>(1994)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Luis Llosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Alexandra Seros <\/strong>based on<strong> THE SPECIALIST <\/strong>novels by<strong> John Shirley<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Rod Steiger, Eric Roberts, Mario Ernesto S\u00e1nchez, Emilio Estefan Jr. <\/strong>and <strong>Tony Munafo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The government taught him to kill. Now he&#8217;s using his skills to help a woman seek revenge against the Miami underworld.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">May Munro (Stone) wants revenge.\u00a0 When May was a young girl, hidden in a closet, she witnessed Thomas Leon (Roberts) brutally murder her mother and father.\u00a0 Leon is the son of Joe Leon (Steiger), a notorious organized crime boss.\u00a0 To get close enough to kill him will be impossible.\u00a0 So may seduces Ray Quick (Stallone) to do it.\u00a0 Quick is an ex-CIA demolition expert.\u00a0 Although reluctant at first, Quick can&#8217;t resist May&#8217;s charms.\u00a0 What Quick doesn&#8217;t know is that May is playing him&#8230; or is she?<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reportedly at one point David Fincher was set direct.\u00a0 Stallone was on board with Fincher at the helm, but the studio balked due to the box office of <em>Alien 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1993, The L.A. Times reported that <em>The Specialist<\/em> was the best unproduced thriller script in Hollywood according to a poll of agents, producers and studio executives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharon Stone plays a character much younger than she was at the time of filming.\u00a0 Stone was supposed to have witnessed Eric Roberts kill her parents when she was a child.\u00a0 Roberts is just two years older than Stone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sly Stallone wrote the scene where Eric Roberts threatens him with a knife.\u00a0 He wrote the scene since otherwise they had no scenes together.<\/p>\n<p>The cat that Stallone adopts in the film also would go on to appear in <em>Assassins<\/em>, another Stallone movie.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that I&#8217;m a Stallone fan, so keep in mind your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>The Specialist <\/strong><\/em>(1994) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z051624zview_specialist2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Specialist (1994) Director: Luis Llosa Screenplay: Alexandra Seros based on THE SPECIALIST novels by John Shirley Stars: Sylvester Stallone,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35763,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35762\/revisions\/35763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}