‘It was a total miracle’: How rejection led Sylvester Stallone to create the ultimate film outsider, Rocky
In I Play Rocky, the studio United Artists offered Stallone increasing sums to sell the script, on the condition that he let a star of the time, such as Burt Reynolds or Ryan O’Neal, take the title role. But Stallone was determined that he and he alone would play Balboa. In fact, there are conflicting accounts of how much he was offered for the script – Stallone himself said the amount was $360,000. But, as broke as he was, he wouldn’t move.
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