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[http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051018/ts_alt_afp/afpentertainmentusfilm_051018131612 Sylvester Stallone to reprise ’Rocky’ role 30 years on]
Hollywood heavyweight Sylvester Stallone will reprise his role as a working-class boxing champ in a sixth ”Rocky” movie, the iconic role that propelled him to fame 30 years ago, he said.Stallone, now 59, will also direct, write and co-produce ”Rocky Balboa,” the latest in the winning series launched with the Oscar-winning ”Rocky” in 1976, Stallone’s spokeswoman and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios said.
”’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.”
”Rocky Balboa” will pick up the saga of ageing boxer Rocky Balboa when, years after his retirement, he is reluctantly drawn back to the boxing ring one last time following the death of his wife. He is challenged not only by a powerful new champion but also by his own personal woes.
The movie will begin filming in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Las Vegas, Nevada, early next year, according to MGM and co-producers Revolution Studios.
”It’s going great — there’s a lot of heart in it,” Stallone told the syndicated television entertainment show ”Extra” in an interview to be broadcast Tuesday.
”Rocky is basically on his own — it’s very touching. People that were in the first one that you didn’t think much about are back, really minor characters are now major characters.”
”In many ways, the screenplay really took me back to the original ’Rocky,'” said Revolution Studios founder Joe Roth. ”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,” he added.
Stallone told industry bible Daily Variety the project had been gestating for years but ”there was a reluctance to go forward until everyone felt there was a ****** that echoed the kind of sincerity and values the first one had, and had some poignancy like the first one had.”
Rocky’s sixth screen outing will be co-produced by Charles Winkler, William Chartoff, David Winkler and Kevin King, while original ”Rocky” producers Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler are to be executive producers, according to Daily Variety.
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