Peter Farrelly to Direct Sylvester Stallone Biopic Charting His ‘Rocky’ Years
Peter Farrelly to Direct Sylvester Stallone Biopic Charting His ‘Rocky’ Years
Peter Farrelly will direct "I Play Rocky," the true story of how Sylvester Stallone bet on himself to play the role of a lifetime in "Rocky"
Will it include a behind the scenes look at “The Party at Kitty and Stud’s”?
Seems strange to do a biopic about someone who is already in a lot of films
It's a biopic about getting Rocky made.
The official logline for “I Play Rocky” reads: “A struggling actor with a partially paralyzed face and a speech impediment writes a script that a big movie studio wants to buy, but he refuses to sell it unless he gets to play the lead. Turning down an offer of life-changing money, he instead works for pennies to get the movie made with himself in the starring role. The movie becomes the biggest box office hit of 1976, garnering 10 Academy Award nominations and winning Best Picture.”
But even without that context I don't understand why that'd be strange. Loads of biopics have been made about famous actors who've appeared in lots of films with a much less interesting story than how Sly brought Rocky to the screen by gambling on himself.