Rocky IV
Rocky 6 Follow Up
In the film, Rocky's now a restaurant owner, who is still grieving over the death of his wife, Adrian. Rocky then decides to return to the ring to fight a few low-scale, local, fights. When he accepts a challenge to take on reigning heavyweight champ Mason "The Line" Dixon, a media frenzy insues….and the rest writes itself.
Stallone, whose been getting knocked back by studio's for years, recently published a part of his script in his magazine, "Sly" and believe it or not, it got a positive response.
In 2004, Stallone took the script to MGM - who also turned it down. They
apparently thought Rocky was too old. "As long as people feel life is an
uphill battle, it will never be over", Stallone said. "Rocky VI
is about people who get to 50 and life says 'Get out of the way, you're
obsolete'. I say to life: 'Move me or go around. I'm not volunteering to
step out'.
He also says he wants a certain message to be portrayed at the end of this sequel. "As we get older, what we lack in skill, we can make up in will. And that is what we need to take into our later years."
Sly also spoke to Maxim magazine and had
this to say. "It dawned on me a long time ago that I have this character
who's almost autobiographical, so his story can keep going. The character
can go places where the actor is in his life. The movies almost become documentaries.
Society says to people, "Step aside; age gracefully." I've never thought
there was anything graceful about aging. So I used what George Foreman did
with his comeback fight a few years ago as a model. Everyone thought he
was a joke, but he followed his own drum".
"Stallone once said of the new opponent, Dixon, that he's "in the same situation
that Rocky was. Even though he's the champion, it's the same situation that
Rocky was in in Rocky 1. You know, it's kind of like, an uncertain
point in his life and even though he has all the skills, we don't know if
he has the real heart for it".
Rocky VI will be filmed in Los Angeles and is rumoured to be co-starring
returning series stars Burt Young and Tony Burton.
Stallone is also bulking up for Rambo 4, which will shoot early
next year. "It won't be what you think - not the same Rambo with the headband",
he said.
Stallone will be 60 when both films are released.
Stay tuned for updates.
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