COVER STORY: Sylvester Stallone feels robbed of an ownership stake in Rocky: 'I was furious'
, the underdog boxer character he created four decades ago — a kindred spirit who served as his creative muse in spawning one of Hollywood’s most successful film franchises. In his long career Stallone also played another memorable screen role — John Rambo — butwas of his own making and still holds a unique place in the very fabric of his being. “It’s like my brother,” he says.
Stallone also speaks openly about his painful struggle with an industry that once recognized him as one of the biggest box office draws in the world and then rejected him for some 15 years following the 1990 flop “Rocky V” and other bombs, including the 1992 comedy “Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot,” that he headlined. Describing how extinct he felt during those fallow years, Stallone says, “I was going the way of the dodo bird and the Tasmanian tiger.
The genesis of “Rocky” dates back to 1975, when Stallone, born in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen, was a broke, struggling actor who wrote the script in three and a half days after watching little-known fighter Chuck Wepner show tremendous heart in battling into the final round against boxing champ Muhammad Ali. Stallone says his story, about a no-name club fighter in Philadelphia, isn’t about boxing. “It is really a metaphor for life,” he says. “This was a love story.
I mentioned it a few times because after “Rocky II” came out and made a ton of money and then “Rocky III” hit and made more than all of them, I said I’d like to have some ownership since I invented it. And that never happened. So I have zero ownership of “Rocky.”What about your CAA agent at the time, Ron Meyer?Because I was told it just doesn’t happen, no one has it, and look, they’re giving you more money on “Rocky III.” They took their chances, and you’re not entitled to it.
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