Discover who will play Sylvester Stallone in this biopic on the creation of Rocky
After playing Al Pacino on the shooting of the godfather, he will play Sly on the shooting of Rocky!
But what are they doing the inheritance of Sylvester Stallone?
After finding a new Rambo, Hollywood now has its new rocky. The Amazon MGM studio officially found the actor who will play Sylvester Stallone in a biopic retracing the genesis of the legendary boxing classic.
According to The Hollywood Reporterit’s Anthony Ippolito – recently seen in the series The Offer where he camped a young Al Pacino – who will lend his features to the young Stallone in I Play Rocky. The film, directed by Peter Farrelly (the other half of the Farrelly brothers, to whom we owe in particular Green BookOscar for best film in 2019) will return to Sly’s fierce fight, barely 30 years old, former actor of erotic film in Galère in Hollywood, who puts his guts on the table to write Rockywork he wants to play absolutely and which will give birth to one of the most emblematic franchises in the history of cinema.
Like his illustrious model, Ippolito was tenacious: the actor would have sent a video hearing to the producers himself after having gone by the project. A paid initiative, since she opened the doors to the role.
The biopic is produced by Tommy Emmerich and Christian Baha, on a scenario by Peter Gamble.
The official synopsis thus sums up history: “A mowed actor, with a partially paralyzed face and suffering from a speech disorder, writes a scenario that a big studio wants to buy. But he refuses to sell it unless he gets the main role. Declining a mirobal financial offer, he agrees to work for almost nothing so that the film will be made with him at the head of the poster. The result: the biggest success of 1976, 10 nominations to the Oscars and the History of the History. true of the birth of myth Rocky. “
