I Play Rocky
Drama History English
The electrifying true story about an unknown actor with an unshakable belief that he wasn't just meant to write Rocky—he was meant to be Rocky Balboa. Told "no" at every turn, Sylvester Stallone bets everything on himself, holding the line on playing the lead against seemingly impossible odds.
| Cast: | Anthony Ippolito, AnnaSophia Robb, P.J. Byrne, Toby Kebbell, Jay Duplass, Tracy Letts, Matt Dillon, Stephan James, Kiki Seto, Robert Morgan, Saul Stein |
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| Director: | Peter Farrelly |
| Writer: | Peter Gamble |
| Editor: | Sam Seig |
| Camera: | Sean Porter |
All Guild Reviews of "I Play Rocky"
How to Fight Hollywood and Win
A powerful screenplay, a determined rookie actor, and an origin story that would become film history. Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky goes beyond this one-liner synopsis, capturing the irony of a legend that seems like it wrote itself, even though Sylvester Stallone had to bleed for every single page.
A powerful screenplay, a determined rookie actor, and an origin story that would become film history. Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky goes beyond this one-liner synopsis, capturing the irony of a legend that seems like it wrote itself, even though Stallone had to bleed for every single page. What really stuns you is the amount of faith the studio had in a script (of the 1976 blockbuster Rocky) from a total unknown. Watching it from India (where writers are routinely discarded from trailer end slates and their scripts are constantly reworked), you feel the weight of Stallone’s decision not to sell his work unless he was going to play the lead in a movie that would make history.
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