{"id":7286,"date":"2014-10-26T10:21:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T14:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=7286"},"modified":"2014-10-26T10:21:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T14:21:54","slug":"sly-is-a-hollywood-double-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/26\/sly-is-a-hollywood-double-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sly is a Hollywood Double Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2014\/oct\/102614sly_wallstcheatsheet.png?resize=500%2C331\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On <strong>October 26, 2014<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wallstcheatsheet.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wall Street Cheat Sheet<\/strong><\/a> posted <a href=\"http:\/\/wallstcheatsheet.com\/entertainment\/7-hollywood-double-threats-who-can-act-and-write.html\/?a=viewall\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>7 Hollywood Double Threats Who Can Act and Write<\/strong><\/a> by <strong>Kristen Klahn<\/strong>. \u00a0Here&#8217;s what was said about Sly&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">Stallone is probably most well-known for his roles in the <em>Rocky<\/em> films.\u00a0Interestingly, he didn\u2019t just play the part of a boxer \u2014 he also wrote the scripts, starting with the 1976 film <em>Rocky<\/em>.\u00a0According to an excerpt from\u00a0<em>The Official Rocky Scrapbook,<\/em> 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 \u201cone 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,\u201d Stallone wrote.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ant_indicator_6b024806be7eb3a360e7327d72d6217a\" class=\"ant_indicator ant_indicator_for_text ant_helper ant_no_reactions\">\n<div id=\"ant_indicator_body_6b024806be7eb3a360e7327d72d6217a\" class=\"ant ant_indicator_body \"><span class=\"ant_count\"><span class=\"ant_react_label\">What do you think?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ant_live_hover\">In <em>The Official Rocky Scrapbook<\/em>, Stallone states: \u201cThat 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 clich\u00e9 of sorts, the all-American tragedy, a man who didn\u2019t have much mentality but had incredible emotion and patriotism and spirituality and good nature even though nature had not been good to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"ant_indicator_e94461592ce5f5a94ce1eef132210ca6\" class=\"ant_indicator ant_indicator_for_text ant_helper ant_no_reactions\">\n<div id=\"ant_indicator_body_e94461592ce5f5a94ce1eef132210ca6\" class=\"ant ant_indicator_body \"><span class=\"ant_count\"><span class=\"ant_react_label\">What do you think?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Stallone went on to write the screenwrites for the remaining <em>Rocky<\/em> films, in addition to many others, including <em>Paradise Alley<\/em>, <em>Staying Alive<\/em>, <em>Over the Top<\/em>, and <em>Cliffhanger<\/em>. He also wrote the screenplay for <em>Rambo: Last Blood,<\/em> which is in pre-production, and has two more writing projects in the works: <em>Rambo: The TV Series<\/em> and <em>Creed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 26, 2014, Wall Street Cheat Sheet posted 7 Hollywood Double Threats Who Can Act and Write by Kristen Klahn. \u00a0Here&#8217;s what was said about Sly&#8230; Stallone is probably most well-known for his roles in the Rocky films.\u00a0Interestingly, he didn\u2019t just play the part of a boxer \u2014 he also wrote the scripts, starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-127"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-1Tw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7287,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions\/7287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}