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They were two of the biggest stars of the ’80s and ’90s and yet it’s hard to believe that Sylvester Stallone and Kim Basinger had never worked together before 2013 ‘s “Grudge Match”.
But get this, we were
this close to seeing Sly snuggle up with Vicky Vale in a big-time cool-ass monster movie in the ’90s!
This close…
In the late ’80s, Ridley Scott was developing a monster-on-a-train flick titled “Dead Reckoning”. The film, a Jim Uhls scripted horror-thriller pitting the leads against a genetically created monster that gets loose on a runaway train, was set up with Carolco and “Lethal Weapon” producer Joel Silver. H.R Giger, who had designed the creatures for Scott’s 1979 sci-fi classic “Alien”, was already hard at work on monster designs for the film. Soaked. Soaked.