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“Bikini Blue” director Jarek Marszewski will direct the 1920s-set euthanasia drama “Iron Ribbon,” for which Los Angeles-based Egyptian actor Mohamed Karim is attached and Tom Hughes (“The English”) is in advanced talks.

The English-language romantic thriller, which is being produced by London-based Daniella Gonella and Jay Michaelson’s Dg Productions, is based on the true story of rising Polish stage star Stanislawa Uminska, who in 1924 killed her cancer-stricken fiancé in Paris upon his request as an act of euthanasia. She then stood trial, but was set free by the French court.

Karim is known across the Middle East as a former host of talent show “The Voice of Arabia” and for roles in popular Ramadan soaps. He is concurrently pursuing a Hollywood career that has led to roles alongside Nicolas Cage in 2019 action movie “A Score to Settle” and with Bruce Willis in “A Day to Die.”

In “Iron Ribbon,...

Well here’s something we don’t see every day…thankfully. A naked Sylvester Stallone–in prop form, mind you–was found in Australia. The prop is from 1993’s Demolition Man, in which Sylvester Stallone played an LAPD sergeant who is cryogenically frozen who is roused to stop Wesley Snipes’ thawed-out criminal.

During the ’90s, prop versions of Sylvester Stallone’s cryogenically frozen character in Demolition Man hung from the ceilings of Planet Hollywood restaurants.

Now a defrosted John Spartan has surfaced in an Australian country town. pic.twitter.com/skOpt2e3ys

— Adam Howes (@Howsito) August 28, 2022

The Stallone prop, more info on which can be read here, was spotted by a visitor while vacationing in the “kookie” town of Katoomba in New South Wales, Australia. The woman described it as both a “weird screaming doll” and a “car wreck you simply can’t look away from.” Objectively, yes, it is both.

No, you're not hallucinating that headline. An important, infamous, and dare I say iconic piece of movie history has resurfaced after several years; a dummy in the likeness of Sylvester Stallone that was used for the 1993 film "Demolition Man." Even more miraculously, it doesn't even look that worn down despite its age.

Okay, so here's the scoop. On August 27, a woman named Bea Bellingham entered the New South Wales-based antique store, the Katoomba Vintage Emporium, with her husband. She told Newsweek in an interview that she had gone downstairs to check out the rest of the store's inventory when she found the twisted dummy, propped up on a dolly in the middle of the floor. Bellingham had posted the photos on her Instagram Stories, which were quickly screenshotted by people on the internet and posted on social platforms like Twitter and Reddit.

During the '90s, prop versions of Sylvester...

Stallone’s John Spartan descends into a big sci-fi cereal bowl. Screenshot: Midas Fury Sylvester Stallone, despite hating frivolities like birthday robots and water conservation laws, once loved a life-size, nude, mannequin version of himself from Demolition Man so much that he used duplicates of it to decorate Planet Hollywood restaurants around the world.