Viggo Mortensen Reportedly Eying Edgar Allan Poe Role

Sylvester Stallone is currently busy finishing up work on Rambo IV, and may even end up doing a Rambo V, but the Sly project I'm most interested in is the one he's doing after Rambo, a film about tortured poet Edgar Allan Poe. The movie's traveled a rocky road to get going, but it's starting to look like Poe will actually get made. If the film finally does happen, we may know who Stallone is casting as his Edgar Allan.

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Our source says, "Stallone has recently met with Viggo Mortensen and has offered him the role of Edgar Allan Poe in the film. Mortensen is considering the role although he wants some slight revisions in the script."

At one point Robert Downey Jr. was rumored to be up for this part, but that was so long ago he's almost certainly moved on by now. Viggo Mortensen is currently shooting a movie called Appaloosa for Ed Harris, but after that he may be free to squeeze something like Poe in. Of course with the strike on, who knows when they’ll be able to start filming Poe anyway, so scheduling wouldn't be a problem. And if what our source says is true, then it sounds like he's not only been offered it, but he's at least a little interested in it.