Stallone getting back in ring for sixth 'Rocky'
The film, titled "Rocky Balboa," will be co-produced and co-financed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios and will be distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Stallone has been trying to make a sixth movie for years and has been reworking a script. The latest version, which sources said is similar to the tone and grit of the first two movies, persuaded the studios to negotiate a deal.
"In many ways, the screenplay really took me back to the original 'Rocky,"' Revolution Studios founder Joe Roth said in a statement. "As a past champion, Rocky Balboa is once again a regular guy who has to find himself and deal with real life. This film brings Rocky's story full circle."
In the new installment, Rocky, lonely and retired in Philadelphia, comes out of retirement, intending to fight a few low-profile local fights. He's approached to fight a match with reigning heavyweight champ Mason "The Line" Dixon, and soon his comeback ignites a media firestorm.
"'Rocky Balboa' is about everybody who feels they want to participate in the race of life, rather than be a bystander," Stallone said in a statement. "You're never too old to climb a mountain, if that's your desire."
Translation" My career was in the pits so what the hell, it's Rocky-Time, and by the way, Sly, you're making a frickin movie not climbing Everest, okay?. I AM really happy to see another Rocky movie in the offering, for he owes it to all his fans after Rocky V. But please, no wimpy, whiny, poor poor Rocky. Have him kick some ass, take some names, and make the villain a moslem in disguise that nobody knows about except Rocky who can't tell anyone until the fight is over, but the guy was one of the original 9/11 gang who missed one of the hijacked planes and was forced to stay in the states living undercover as a boxer, then became champ but funneled all of his winnings into yet ANOTHER attempt at hitting the White House with a 767. Rocky knows that the signal for the next attempt will be after their fight when Mason Dixon raises his hands in triumph...well, you get the drift.
Something believable, ya know.
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