Despite some rumblings here and there, here’s a little piece of news that I didn’t see actually becoming a reality. We already know Sylvester Stallone is well underway with his awesome looking The Expendables, and that he’s already got Rambo 5 in the pipeline. But that’s not all – apparently after that, Sly is going to give his most well known character another bout in the ring with another Rocky flick.
Stallone reportedly spoke to Tele 5 in Germany recently and since then, the quotes from that interview have made their way online and spread like wild fire (don’t they always?). The quotes are being sourced everywhere from Teen Say (special thanks to /Film for picking it up from them), where Stallone reveals his desire/intention to make Rocky 7. Here’s what he had to say:
“I know I’ll probably make a fool of myself if I make another ‘Rocky’ film after turning 60…. I also know there’s gonna be a lot of criticism. Even my wife says, ‘Don’t do it. You’re embarrassing the kids’. But I told her, ‘If I don’t try I’ll be a really unhappy man…. You have to do it. Artists like me have to go through the dark over and over again.”
“When I was 21 years old and at drama school. My teacher said to me, ‘If you ever put your head out there, thousands of people will try to cut it off, but that’s exactly what you need to do as an artist.’
“I know it’s ludicrous and everyone would laugh. I would laugh about it. But I also know that I’d be successful if I can make this a film about becoming older, not about boxing but about myself.”
I’m sure there will be much debate on whether Stallone should go ahead and make another Rocky film, and therefore I know I’m not alone on being on the side of the fence that thinks he should just leave the franchise be. I thought Rocky Balboa was suppose to be Rocky’s “one more time” film and that would be it. To me, Sly ended that franchise perfectly with Balboa, tying it up in such a way that to me, the idea of making another takes a lot of the weight out of the whole thing.
With Rambo I can understand making another one, since there’s still a lot that can still be done with the character (I think if Stallone delivers more of the carnage he did in the latter half of Rambo last year, we’ll all be happy). But what else can he do with Rocky? It seems he’d just be retreading old water for no real reason other than milking the cash cow making it for the hell of it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure with the passion Sly has for the character, that a Rocky 7 would be be done well (if he strives for the quality of the last one). But to be honest, I’m a bit miffed as to what the point really is in making it. But that’s just me.
What are your thoughts on this: Should Stallone make Rocky 7? Or did he tie the franchise up perfectly with Rocky Balboa and he should just leave it at that?
Rocky 7 doesn’t have any official shooting or release date set yet, but presumably if it goes ahead it’d start shooting in late 2010/early 2011.
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I think the movie should be about his son going threw a tough time and him turning to rocky(slyvestor) to be his manager and train him and at the end they should bring one of the bad guys like drago(dolph) or tommy guns and they say sorry for the past and the fight might even be with one of the bad guys son and of course if ur reading this I thank you but I have one more thing to add, tom hardy should be rocky’s son he would fit percelty into the movie and his acting is amazing.
We all enjoy the fantasy movies such as Superman and Batman, so let us just enjoy the fun and fantasy of a 60 year old Rocky making a comeback and winning the big fight. Moviegoers flock to see many fantasy type movies. It is just all in the name of entertainment. Come on Slyvester Stallone, let us see ROCKY win again. I would LOVE to see ROCKY 7.
I think that long as he got a good storyline for this sequel then it should do real well…if i was him i would take the time to come up with some mindblowing ideas!!! Sylvester Stallone is a genius so im pretty sure it’ll go well..and plus it’ll be good to see the update on rocky balboa’s life and stuff so im lookin forward to it
I think theocie should be about some one messing with apollos death making fun of it and rocky gets really ticked off fights the guy but leave the ending like one of those endings that no one knows if he lived or die after the brutal beating rocky gives him
i think the rocky movies are great and classics and i would love another to come out but it would be great if this one would be about his sonbecoming a boxer and carrying on the legacy
It’s not about reality, MOST movies aren’t about reality. They’re all about living out dreams that you wouldn’t see in the real world. Growing up with the movies, I can honestly say I’d love a sequel.
Maybe even making somebody else a big star of the Rocky franchise in the process as to carry on the films without Sly having to star in them. I’d hate for the series be forgotten by the youths of tomorrow, and wholeheartedly hope they find some way of carrying it on for a long time to come.
If there is two things i would like to see happen in rocky 7 would be : for rocky to win the title and buy back his mansion but he should die in the ring the end! there’s your story for rocky 7.
I can see a prequel Rocky that tracks Rocky in his teen years and leading up to the fight scene in Rocky I. Obviously Stallone would not play Rocky in this sort of film, but perhaps has a cameo somehow, perhaps if the young Rocky sees his older self in a montage. I agree that the Rocky character with Stallone fighting is a little long in the tooth.