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The Big Picture One of the most beloved sports film series of all time, Rocky, stands as a bastion among inspirational underdog stories. The eponymous small-time boxer's heavyweight bout against the world champion Apollo Creed is arguably the most iconic fight in all of cinema — but that's not even the sole reason why the film is considered to be so legendary. At the time of writing the film, Stallone was broke and on the brink of giving up his acting career.
Release Date September 22, 1978 Director Sylvester Stallone Cast Sylvester Stallone , Lee Canalito , Armand Assante , Frank McRae , Anne Archer , Kevin Conway , terry funk , Joyce Ingalls Runtime 107 Minutes Main Genre Drama Writers Sylvester Stallone Expand What Is Sylvester Stallone's 'Paradise Alley' About? Paradise Alley follows the Carboni brothers, a trio of Italian American siblings living in Hell's Kitchen, New York in the 1940s.
Sylvester Stallone Wrote 'Paradise Alley' Before 'Rocky' Though Paradise Alley was made after Rocky, Stallone had actually been working on the professional wrestling story long before he had ever thought of the Italian Stallion. Stallone had originally written Paradise Alley as a novel, before adapting it into a screenplay and signing it off to a producer.
Stallone continued, "They wanted to make it, but the other cretin that I had optioned it to was so obnoxious, so overbearing, that the producers wanted nothing to do with me or the screenplay. So on the way out, they said, 'If you have any ideas, we’d be happy to look at them.' ...The door of opportunity was wide open and I had nothing to carry over its threshold. That’s when I started to write Rocky. So thank God for the maggot; otherwise I never would’ve written the story of Mr.
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