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Stallone is probably most well-known for his roles in the Rocky films. Interestingly, he didn’t just play the part of a boxer — he also wrote the scripts, starting with the 1976 film Rocky. According to an excerpt from The Official Rocky Scrapbook, Stallone was inspired to write the script after attending the Muhammad Ali/Chuck Wepner fight. Wepner was supposed to lose quickly, but instead the fight went 15 rounds, and he was able to establish himself as “one of the few men who had ever gone the distance with Muhammad Ali, and he can hold his head up high forever no matter what happens,” Stallone wrote.
What do you think?In The Official Rocky Scrapbook, Stallone states: “That night I went home and I had the beginning of my character. I had him now. I was going to make a creation called Rocky Balboa, a man from the streets, a walking cliché of sorts, the all-American tragedy, a man who didn’t have much mentality but had incredible emotion and patriotism and spirituality and good nature even though nature had not been good to him.”
What do you think?Stallone went on to write the screenwrites for the remaining Rocky films, in addition to many others, including Paradise Alley, Staying Alive, Over the Top, and Cliffhanger. He also wrote the screenplay for Rambo: Last Blood, which is in pre-production, and has two more writing projects in the works: Rambo: The TV Series and Creed.