After producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff became interested in the script, they offered Sylvester Stallone an unprecedented $350,000 for the rights. He had $106 in the bank and no car, and was trying to sell his dog because he couldn't afford to feed him, but he refused to sell...
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The chants of “you stole my script” weren’t far off. In 2003, Wepner filed a lawsuit claiming that he was entitled to $15 million for the unauthorized use of his name for promoting the film.(E)The backstory became the subject of a fascinating ESPN “30 for 30” documentary titled ...
Timbers -- at 35, already a Broadway veteran -- admitted he had not even seen the "Rocky" movies before being hired to lead the Broadway show. "I thought it actually was an asset," he said. "You treat the script like a dramatic text, so I went to the New York Public Library, an...
It all came to life in London in 1973 as the brainchild of O'Brien, a stage actor who loved sci-fi B-movies, '50s music and glam rock. He showed his script to Australian director Jim Sharman, who put the play on in several locations before securing the King's Road Theater, whereTh...
Unfortunately, the script does nothing to support them, so they turn into nothing more than simple caricatures. While she at least got to pop out a baby and fall into a coma during Rocky II, during the subsequent sequels Adrian gets allowed to do virtually nothing other than support her ...
As the supporting characters continue to die off - Burgess Meredith’s Mickey got the axe inIIIand we lose Creed here - more and more of the burden falls upon Talia Shire’s Adrian and Burt Young’s Paulie. Unfortunately, the script does nothing to support them, so they turn into nothing...
Up to this point, Stallone had just been a character actor, with no major roles. Studios wanted "Rocky," but they still didn't want Stallone to headline this original underdog story. They offered him money, as much as $265,000 for just the script, yet he turned it down. ...
What do you get when you mix parts of an unrealized Beverly Hills Cop script, romantic thriller novel ‘A Running Duck’, and a leading man named Marion? Well, naturally…. a film with a body count of over fifty. A film where the original cut was so violent and so brutal it had to...
who also played Magenta on both stage and screen. For the big-screen treatment, however, O'Brien wanted to pay homage to the song's influences by opening the film with a montage of classic monster movie clips. In the script, he selected not only the films to be included but specific sc...