“Give me back at least some of Rocky’s rights.” Sylvester Stallone’s Appeal it does not go unnoticed and it also causes a certain pain. The immortal mask of blobs and blood of the Italian-American boxer who screams “Adrianaaaa” has never actually been able to enjoy in the proper proportions of what the franchise generated from Rocky Created and interpreted by him in 1976. The appeal has since surfaced on the actor’s Instagram page and was then removed.
Stallone and the lunge to become the producer of “Rocky”
Stallone had posted a photo there Irwin Winkler, one of the most important producers of Hollywood 70/80, as well as producer of Rocky together with Robert Chartoff a knife instead of the tongue. “A long portrait of the amazing Rocky/Creed producer Irwin Winkler by one of the biggest artists in the country (sic!),” Stallone wrote in the post. “Having controlled Rocky for more than 47 years and now Creed, I really want to get at least “what’s left of my rights.”, before just passing them on to your kids. I think it would be a fair gesture from this 93 year old gentleman, right? It is a painful matter that devours my soulwhy I want to leave something of Rocky to my childrenalthough it’s always nice to hear words from the loyal fans.”
The Birth of Rocky
Here he is Rocky Stallone trying to make the final uppercut to whoever somehow vaguely fooled him. According to legend, the still unknown Stallone made very small appearances, some of which were not even accredited, as in bananas by Allen E mash by Altman, keeps Rocky’s motif in the drawer for several years and then tries everything writes Rocky’s screenplay in three days and in March 1975, through his agents, he managed to persuade Winkler-Chartoff and the distributor United Artist to produce the film, but on one condition: he must also be the protagonist. It’s those excited moments when it’s not clear what’s going to happen with the future of film Stallone accepts $75,000 for the script and $2.5 million for the performance. And then according to him only crumbs, or a few million dollars, as he explained to Variety not many years ago: “I have no financial or proprietary rights to Rocky. But every word, every syllable, every grammatical error that my character pronounces is my thing. It was shocking that nobody wanted to give me the rightOn the contrary, I was told: “You have been paid, what are you complaining about?”.
Winkler’s answer
At the time of the Variety interview, a response came anonymously from Winkler’s enthusiasm (among the films produced many titles by Scorsese such as Raging Bull and Goodfellas; several films by Costa Gavras, Hugh Hudson, Peter Bogdanovich): “He made money from every point of view, and he still does we don’t know what he’s complaining about“. The same source explained that alongside the Rocky saga (six titles between 1976 and 2006) Stallone also made $10 million from what can be described as a Rocky spin-off, Creed, of which Stallone will serve as producer. For the record, Rocky cost Winkler & Co. a million bucks and earned $225 million; won three Oscars (film, direction, editing) with two nominations (actor, screenplay) for Stallone himself; and it has become the most famous boxing film in the history of cinema.