‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims
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deadline.comSylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge.
In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.
But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
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