Sylvester Stallone has teased an upcoming Rocky prequel – and when put next it to an unlikely Disney inspiring traditional.
“The Rocky prequel would possibly well be very near and expensive to my heart,” Stallone urged the Inspire Me podcast. “I wrote just a few pages of it and it loyal appears to be like to jot down itself. Seeing Adrian at 15, Rocky at 17, Paulie appealing to a recent neighborhood. Rocky is your frightful boy. It be nearly love Girl and the Tramp, but with loyal folks. It be going to be magnificent.”
Adrian is Rocky’s like interest (and, by Rocky II, his partner), played by Talia Shire in the fashioned motion photos, while Paulie is Adrian’s older brother and Rocky’s simplest friend, who used to be played by Burt Younger. Stallone used to be 29 when the predominant Rocky movie used to be launched, so it appears to be like love the prequel will seemingly be attach of abode round 10 years before the events of the 1976 film. And, in accordance with his Girl and the Tramp comparison, it looks we can build a query to a focal level on Rocky and Adrian’s relationship.
There is been talk of a prequel TV sequence since 2019, but updates had been few and much between and the mission hasn’t gave the impression to obtain off the bottom. The truth that Stallone has written “just a few pages” of the script is a promising signal that the ball will be rolling, though.
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