With production officially underway, Amazon MGM has shared a first-look image from I Play Rocky featuring Anthony Ippolito (The Offer) as a young Sylvester Stallone. Directed by Peter Farrelly (Green Book), I Play Rocky tells the true story behind the making of the iconic 1976 film Rocky, as aspiring actor Sylvester Stallone took his destiny into […]
Stephan James steps into the ring to play Carl Weathers in I Play Rocky
If Beale Street Could Talk star Stephan James is set to inherit Apollo Creed’s gloves in order to play the late-great Carl Weathers in Amazon MGM Studios’ I Play Rocky. Per Deadline’s report James has been cast opposite Anthony Ippolito’s Sylvester Stallone in the film, which chronicles the making of 1977’s Best Picture winner Rocky. […]
Anthony Ippolito to play Sylvester Stallone in I Play Rocky
Fresh from playing a young Al Pacino in The Offer, the Paramount+ series about the making of The Godfather, actor Anthony Ippolito is going back behind the scenes of 70s Hollywood to portray a young Sylvester Stallone in I Play Rocky. The film is being directed by Peter Farrelly (Green Book) from a script by […]
Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky to tell the story of how Sylvester Stallone made iconic film
Green Book filmmaker Peter Farrelly is set to tackle the iconic story of Rocky and the behind-the-scenes production drama that made Sylvester Stallone a star as Variety reports that I Play Rocky, Farrelly’s new film, will soon enter production from a screenplay by Peter Gamble. The upcoming film will follow “Stallone long before his action-hero […]
