{"id":796,"date":"2008-11-30T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=796"},"modified":"2008-11-30T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T17:50:00","slug":"sly-as-the-wrestler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/30\/sly-as-the-wrestler\/","title":{"rendered":"Sly as &quot;The Wrestler&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stallonezone.com\/main\/uploaded_images\/113008wrestler-745508.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stallonezone.com\/main\/uploaded_images\/113008wrestler-745506.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Darren Aronofsky<\/span>, director of the critically acclaimed <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;The Wrestler&#8221;<\/span> is quoted as saying that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mickey Rourke<\/span> was not his first choice for the starring role.  In fact, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sylvester Stallone<\/span> was one of his first choices.  Aronofsky said, &#8220;I was thinking it&#8217;d be interesting to see him go back to the ring in some way because he&#8217;s so good in the ring. Then he did <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8216;Rocky Balboa,&#8217;<\/span> the latest <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8216;Rocky,&#8217;<\/span> and it kinda ruled it out for me because it was about an older guy going back to the ring. There were enough connections there that I didn&#8217;t want to go near it.&#8221;  You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/ent\/movies\/articles\/2008\/11\/28\/20081128wrestler-rourke.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">read the full article here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While it would have been very cool to see <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sly<\/span> in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;The Wrestler,&#8221;<\/span> I think that the path he is on now is better.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sly<\/span> is back to writing, directing and starring in his own projects.  Plus, it allowed <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mickey Rourke<\/span> another opportunity to shine.  This way fans get to see two actors doing what they do best!<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> &#8211; Craig<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Aronofsky, director of the critically acclaimed &#8220;The Wrestler&#8221; is quoted as saying that Mickey Rourke was not his first choice for the starring role. In fact, Sylvester Stallone was one of his first choices. Aronofsky said, &#8220;I was thinking it&#8217;d be interesting to see him go back to the ring in some way because [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-cQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}