Sylvester Stallone on what drew him to the MCU for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

With the confirmation of Stallone’s character in the hotly anticipated Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 coming earlier this month, many are eager to see just what the Marvel Cinematic Universe has in store for one of the industry’s biggest icons.

Well, in a recent press conference promoting the film, Stallone had his say on just what the MCU means to fans of today, and compared it to the Joseph Campbell-like stories that he was once enamoured with.

“Early on in my career I became fascinated with mythology. Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces, and so on and so forth. When I started doing Rambo, [I came to understand] there’s an evolution that takes place. Every generation has to find itself, define its own heroes, define its own mythology. And [the MCU] is this generation’s– and maybe even the next generation’s– mythology. And when Kevin Feige invited me on board I said, ‘This is interesting because I haven’t gone here. I’m kind of Earth-bound. I’m terrestrial. This is something that takes place in a whole other sphere where James and the Marvel people have created their own world, their own reality. So I said, ‘Yeah, let me visit. Let me drop in here and see what’s up, where the future is going.’ And it was great. It got me out of the house [away] from my three daughters. And that’s why I gave them my salary back.”

Stallone certainly isn’t wrong here – the trends are always changing, and Marvel superheroes are certainly fulfilling a role that others once did. And Sly definitely seems pleased with his trip to the MCU, which hopefully bodes well for his soon to be seen performance.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is scheduled for release on April 28th 2017 in the UK and on May 5th in the States, with director James Gunn reuniting with returning cast members Chris Pratt (Star-Lord), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Dave Bautista (Drax), Bradley Cooper (Rocket), Vin Diesel (Groot), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Michael Rooker (Yondu), Glenn Close (Nova Prime), Sean Gunn (Kraglin) and Laura Haddock (Meredith Quill) alongside new additions Pom Klementieff (Oldboy) as Mantis, Elizabeth Debicki (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) as Ayesha, Kurt Russell (The Hateful Eight) as Ego the Living Planet, Chris Sullivan (The Drop) as Taserface, Tommy Flanagan (Sons of Anarchy) as Tulik, Sylvester Stallone (Creed) as Stakar and Michael Rosenbaum (Smallville) in an as-yet-unrevealed role.

Joe Lee

Joe Lee shared Joseph Campbell’s post.But
it must be said and it is not said enough that when Jung came up with
the idea of archetypes, ‘which is a word he associated with the power of
the myth including Freud’s references to little Greek tragedy’s and the
like ”, and related them to Mytho poetical figures, his original take
was that there are certain instincts all animals including Humans are
born with, which are triggered by other things
, he gave examples of the wasp stinging and lying there eggs in
caterpillars or tarantula’s, they didn’t go to wasp school to learn it,
same as a new born horse will automatically stand and then go to the
tete of the mother, for a variety of survival needs, and thousands of
other archetypal instincts that just need triggering in all animals and
for plants for that matter. These instincts [‘which dismiss all the
idiot philosophers who claim the brain is a tabular rousea,] can be
sublimated into the story form and myths that are repeated again and
again in classical myth story’s for example from Thoth to Sophocles to
Shakespeare to George Lucas and so on and so on, [as they are so
prominent in the mind they need an outlet], the same old story’s each
time in new form for each generation make up same Myths, and the reason
they resonate so well with all, is because they are satisfying [or
massaging at least] the triggering of these Archetypal instincts.