Peter Farrelly is making a behind-the-scenes film of Sylvester Stallone. Rockywhich catapulted the actor to stardom, titled I play Rocky.
Sharing a few details about the project, Green Book The director talked about his biopic writer’s struggle. First blood The star
“It’s one of the best scripts I’ve ever read. The guy who wrote it, Peter Gamble, came out of the blue. The guy teaches at USC. Tobe Emmerich gave it to me, he’s the producer. ” he said. Variety.
He continued, “And he said, ‘Hey, read this script. I think it’s special.’ It’s about making Rocky, and there’s a lot that I didn’t know when he wrote the script, he was living in Penn Station, and he was doing **********. “He had to sell his dog.”
“He goes, ‘No, I play Rocky.’ reached out to, and he said, “Take it and go,” Peter said, referring to the 78-year-old’s efforts to convince the studio to back his film, which later won an Academy Award.
“I’m not doing it. I want this movie.” So they let him do the movie, but he had to sign a contract saying that if he missed a day of shooting, he’d be out – And they agreed to it.”
“So they kind of sabotaged it. On the first day of shooting, the studio said, “We need an exterior shot,” so they did every running shot in the movie on the first day. He ran 18 miles. Day 2 is meat. Should be cold, but no, it was cold and melted,” the 67-year-old noted.
“Well we can melt it with a hair dryer, but it will take three hours,” he said. He said, “Let’s do it,” and broke both his hands. He went to the hospital four times while making the film, and had four weeks to make it with $1 million. He did.”
“So this guy went from being homeless to winning an Oscar. Rocky’s character had a job at the beginning and he didn’t win the fight. He stayed in the fight until late. To me, that’s a better story,” Peter concluded. derived