UPDATE - Variety elaborates today on the ROCKY 6 news. It turns out MGM will co-finance the film after-all with Sony and Revolution kicking in some funds. Columbia will distribute in the States. The villian will be a character quite cheesily named Mason Dixon, whose nickname is "The Line." If my eyes rolled any further, they'd be all the way in the back of my head... The original report from Oct. 12, is below.
We've heard all the talk and rumors about a ROCKY 6 (primarily because Sly Stallone doesn't have much else to talk about) but up until this point, I really didn't think it was going to happen. It looks like I'm wrong. Production Weekly is reporting that filming on ROCKY 6 is scheduled to begin filming in December with Sly again starring and this time directing. The trade describes the plot as being about a "lonely and at loose ends" Rocky who "comes out of retirement." Sound familiar? Know anybody who fits that bill? In the film Rock will take on a few local matches just to help pay the bills but eventually is offered a title fight and becomes the focus of a media blitz. If you want to find out more about ROCKY 6, we posted a few pages from the script a while back when Sly published them in his now-defunct magazine. It's unclear yet who's backing the film financially but MGM, now owned by Sony, passed on the rights to making the film. Stallone's last attempt at fame, the NBC TV series "The Contender," was cancelled after one season. But he can whip up a mean pudding!
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9:01PM on 10/17/2005
He can't even get his movies onto the Big Screen anymore....
Let's get Rocky 6 going, maybe people will watch it out of sympathy, or maybe it will ...
He can't even get his movies onto the Big Screen anymore....
Let's get Rocky 6 going, maybe people will watch it out of sympathy, or maybe it will go straight to video....
regardless...I'm there for you Sly...I really am!!!!!!!!