Sylvester Stallone Defends AI After His Pitch for a ‘Half Human, Half AI’ Movie Ignited Outrage: ‘You Get Blasted’ by Hollywood but ‘I Would Take That Risk’

Oct 22, 2026 10:46am PT Sylvester Stallone Defends AI After His Pitch for a ‘Half Human, Half AI’ Movie Ignited Outrage: ‘You Get Blasted’ by Hollywood but ‘I Would Take That Risk’

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Sylvester Stallone is ready to embrace AI. During an interview on “The Overlap” podcast, the Oscar winner said that he received backlash for trying to get a “half human, half AI” movie off the ground but he didn’t care because “AI is here to stay.” Stallone did not mention the project, but he’s spoken previously about a failed pitch to use AI so he could play a young Rambo on the big screen.

“I get in trouble for this [but] AI is here to stay,” Stallone said on the podcast. “I wanted to do half-human, half-AI and put it together, and of course everyone’s going nuts. I go, ‘That’s happening, guys. People are selling their images. There’s going to be 20 Elvis avatars … This is happening.’”

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