Even though they’ve become the best of friends, a rivalry that was as heated as the one between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone can never truly be over, with Netflix becoming the latest unlikely battleground for the next battle in the never-ending war.
The Austrian Oak has been all over the streaming service recently, with action comedy series FUBAR dominating the most-watched charts for weeks on end and being awarded a rapid-fire season 2 renewal, while he also got more introspective than ever before through documentary Arnold.
In what almost surely can’t be a coincidence, Stallone is getting in on the act too, with the platform unveiling the first trailer for the upcoming profile on the Rocky and Rambo icon. One is called Arnold, the other named Sly, and is that an accident? Absolutely not.
The main issue with Arnold is that while it did showcase a side of the action legend a lot of people hadn’t seen before, it still arguably didn’t dive deep enough. His misdeeds were largely glossed over in favor of praise and hagiography – which is hardly the wrong course of action given the remarkable life that he’s led – but it nonetheless felt like a missed opportunity.
Will Sly do the opposite? Probably not, but it’ll be fascinating to see how far it goes in exploring the drive behind somebody who seized overnight success by the scruff of the neck and parlayed it into a half-century of success that’s seen him conquer the industry to almost the exact same extent as his ex-nemesis.