Frank Stallone Already Benefitting From Brother’s New Washington Gig

Sylvester Stallone was once one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. He was a behemoth talent who wrote, directed, and starred in many films (even if there were plenty of clunkers). His love life was the subject of tabloid fodder. Movies were made based solely on his involvement, to the extent that he could get a cop comedy greenlit that starred him and Estelle Getty just because he thought Schwarzenegger was interested (he wasn’t, but he wanted Stallone to think he was). Stallone’s star eventually faded, turning him into a B-movie actor who would occasionally get plucked by a successful creator to appear in something that doesn’t go straight to Red Box.

During the height of Stallone’s powers, he could do more than just get movies made, he could get his brother involved too! You know Frank! Frank Stallone! He’s a singer, songwriter, female wrestling promoter apparently, he sucks, and he’s a joke character in Fred Claus (as himself). Frank is Sly’s younger brother and never quite hit the levels of popularity as his big bro. One of his biggest claims to fame is how Norm Macdonald used to use him as a punchline on Saturday Night: Live. Let’s take a moment to enjoy some of that.

I’ll be honest and say that I enjoy a couple of Frank’s songs. Specifically, I unironically enjoy his song Far From Over from his brother’s joyfully disastrous film Staying Alive. I was listening to a How Did This Get Made episode about the movie this morning and, while searching for things to write about, I saw Frank’s big Temu-Sylvestor-looking face this morning and it felt like kismet. Frank hasn’t been on my mind much these days, unlike his more successful brother.

While Sly certainly made a name for himself in Hollywood, he is long past his days of insisting the author of a book add Stallone’s name to the cover because he wrote the film adaptation (that’s true). Now, instead of having his ass kissed by studio executives, he’s puckering up to our current President. That landed the man who was once Rocky a job as Ambassador to Hollywood alongside Mel Gibson and Jon Voight (take a moment to vomit if you need to). No one knows what the ambassadorship will involve, but I couldn’t think of three men more apt to shake down Hollywood to make sure it resembles them more. Case in point, Frank is going to be in a new movie!

I have zero proof that Sly’s new position got Frank his new gig as the lead in a horror movie called Waxman written and directed by Thomas J Churchill. I also refuse to dismiss the fact that Frank got his first lead role in years the same year his brother began working for the White House. Sylvester doesn’t even have to be directly involved with his brother’s casting. We’ve seen plenty of powerful people bend their knees to this administration in advance, a smaller movie casting Frank Stallone in an attempt to earn favor, while speculation on my part, feels very plausible.

This world is wild right now, but it still doesn’t feel like the kind of wild where someone said, “I think the best actor for this role is Frank Stallone.” But, if you were to look on Deadline, that’s what you’d be told. Frank will be playing a detective battling a ghostly serial killer or something like that. The movie will also star Scary Movie’s Jon Abrahams. If all of this is happening and it has nothing to do with Sylvester I will eat my hat.