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Copyright 2004 British Broadcasting Corporation
BBC Monitoring Middle East - Political
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May 28, 2004, Friday

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HEADLINE: Rambo in Egypt, Jordan to shoot series enhancing Arabs' image

SOURCE: MENA news agency, Cairo, in English 1016 gmt 28 May 04

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Text of report in English by Egyptian news agency MENA

Amman, 28 May: Arab producers said US action guru Sylvester Stallone, best known for his Rocky and Rambo movies, will produce a 52-million-dollar series aimed to enhance the Arabs' image after the 11 September incidents, adding the scenes would be shot in Egypt, Jordan and other Arab countries.

The 52-episode star-studded series will also group Dolph Lundgren, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Pamela Anderson and Catherine-Zeta Jones.

A team from Hollywood will pay a five-day visit to Jordan Sunday 30 May to prepare for the series.



LOAD-DATE: May 28, 2004

probabaly the same as this show project even if they may have changed the concept a bit:
http://www.gmrmedia.com/dolph/dolph-in/egyptian_baywatch.html

Yeah, thats what I was assuming, but I found it odd they didn't mention the name of the show. I have not heard anything since and this was the newest article. I had assumed they had dropped this project.

you can find plenty of articles with google under the title "Action in Hurghada"

I have already read those, remember I was the one that posted those on the old forum? Like I said, those articles are from a year ago and no show still! The article I just posted at the top is from 2004, making it newer and possibly more up to date. However, I have suspicions that this show may not ever get under way.

It doesn't sound very realistic to be honest. I really can't see Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and CZJ flying out to Egypt to do guest spots for a Sly Stallone produced action series. It's a series likely to be similar to shows like LA Heat, Vip and Crow, not massively popular like Alias or Buffy.

It would be good, it would be the sort of show I'd have to wait eons to see in Britain though. I owuld like to see Dolph do a TV seies. That oculd increase his popularity. Action series's are very popular as are the stars in them. Van Damme might be doing a TV series now after being very popular on his Las Legas guest spot (did anyone see it?). The amount of movies he has done this year means he could probably film a for a TV series. He must have considered this before when he did Blackjack (which wuould have been a crap series methinks). The only thing is the time, depending on how long the series is, it could take up several months of his time, time away from his family. His movies he does are usually only a month of filming at the most.

I don't believe in it too much either.

By the way I can't find the IMDB filmography of Youssef Mansour who's supposed to be an Eyptian action film star, is it an alias or can his name have another spelling?

This sounds great!!! I'll try to find out more about this Arab series...
Are there still other actors and actresses listed yet?