Green Book director Peter Farrelly will helm I Play Rocky, specializing in Sylvester Stallone’s journey to play the Italian Stallion.
Peter Farrelly is able to eat lightning and crap thunder for a novel challenge specializing in Sylvester Stallone‘s beloved Rocky franchise. I Play Rocky finds Farrelly directing a film about Stallone’s journey to play the Italian Stallion on the silver display. Toby Emmerich is producing, with Peter Gamble penning the script.
Here’s the official blurb for I Play Rocky:
A struggling actor with {a partially} paralyzed face and a speech obstacle writes a script {that a} huge film studio desires to purchase, however he refuses to promote it until he will get to play the lead. Turning down a suggestion of life-changing cash, he as a substitute works for pennies to get the film made with himself within the starring position. The film turns into the most important field workplace hit of 1976, notching ten Oscar nominations and profitable Best Picture. The true story of the making of the enduring film Rocky.
I Play Rocky is bound to turn into one of many hottest objects promoting at Cannes subsequent week, with studios tripping over themselves to current Stallone’s inspiring story to keen followers.
“I’ve been a fan of Peter Farrelly as both a filmmaker and a person since getting to work with him on the music for Dumb and Dumber,” Emmerich stated. “But it was Green Book that made me think of Pete for this inspiring screenplay. Christian Baha and I feel blessed to have Pete at the helm for this movie. And like the unknown Stallone starring in Rocky, Pete will be conducting a worldwide search to discover another actor who just needs one shot — in I Play Rocky — to show the world what he can do.”
Baha added: “When I first read Peter Gamble’s energetic and poignant script, I knew it captured something very special. The story of I Play Rocky is as unique as Sylvester Stallone himself, a seeming Everyman with an undeniable gift who needs to share it with the world and refuses to take “no” for a solution. And just like the hero of our movie, Baha Productions wanted grit and dedication as we fought for years to make this challenge right into a actuality. We are so lucky to have teamed up with Toby Emmerich and Peter Farrelly, two legendary abilities who not solely share however improve our imaginative and prescient of the movie.”
Okay, right here’s the large query: Who on the planet do you get to play Sylvester Stallone in I Play Rocky? Will Farrelly and his workforce deliver a giant title aboard the challenge or search far and vast for an unknown actor? Is there somebody who may endure a formidable transformation to play the famed actor and motion star? If you might have any ideas, we’d like to see them within the feedback part beneath.
