Director Peter Farrelly decided to tell the story of the making of the legendary Rocky, inspired by Sylvester Stallone’s struggle to make it happen. I Play Rocky will tell the dream of a young actor.
No longer obligatorily devoted to zany cinema, he always signed with his brother Bobby, the director Peter Farrelly started the project I Play Rockya fiction film about creation of the immortal Rocky of 1976where a little-known actor like Sylvester Stallone he played it all… and won. The true “underdog story” which Hollywood cinema loves so much: indeed, I Play Rocky will become “the underdog story of an underdog story”! Let’s find out something more.
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I Play Rocky tells the story of the legendary 1976 Rocky
It’s a well-known story: Rocky of 1976 had that shape because Sylvester Stallonepractically unknown at the time, was refused to sell his screenplay to studiosunless they had put black on white That they chose him as the protagonist. It wasn’t easy to find the way to the big screen, but in the end the film by John G. Avildsen went out, Bill Conti created those legendary notes of musical themeAnd Sly he became the star he had always dreamed of being. I Play Rocky (the phrase / ultimatum that Stallone repeated to the studios) will be the title of a film that will tell precisely this personal odysseyaccording to the synopsis not even hiding the fact that the protagonist is an actor “with a partially paralyzed face and a speech impediment“. If we ever still had doubts regarding the star we want to tell. The script signed by Peter Gamble it’s already ready, and Peter Farrelly will bring the project to Cannes Marketwhile a complex casting to find who will play Sylvester Stallone in the movie. For prudence, Stallone is never mentioned in the advert, perhaps recalling that Sly has recently complained a lot about the unscrupulous use of the Rocky brand and characters, without making him part of the intellectual property. However, this is a different project, it is not a remake, a sequel or a spin-off, but a gift. The producers themselves, calling I Play Rocky an idea “as unique as Sylvester Stallone himself“, they evidently hope to earn the Sly’s blessing. Will arrive?
