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Nalod
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ANd we thought Patrick and Allan didn't know when to give it up!
New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
No, Adrian! Sly plans ring return as widowed Rocky
BY BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
He was thought to be down for the count, but Rocky Balboa is ready to rise from the mat one more time for a big-screen comeback.
Sylvester Stallone, who created and starred as the street-smart brawler with the eye of the tiger, confirmed reports yesterday that he's raring to get back in the ring.
The sixth installment in the boxing saga will be simply titled "Rocky Balboa" and Stallone will play the aging pugilist yearning to recapture his glory days.
"'Rocky Balboa' is about everybody who feels they want to participate in the race of life, rather than be a bystander," Stallone said. "You're never too old to climb a mountain, if that's your desire."
Shooting is scheduled to begin in December in Las Vegas and Philadelphia, where Rocky got his start.
The movie, which is backed by MGM, Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios, is scheduled to be released on Thanksgiving 2006.
Stallone, 59, who will also write and direct the film, has already revealed one of the biggest twists in the upcoming movie: Adrian is dead!
In the earlier films, Rocky always leaned on his wife, Adrian, for support, crying out "Yo, ADRIAN!" in the famous scene from the first film after a bloody battle with then-reigning champ Apollo Creed.
And while Adrian is dead, it is yet to be determined whether Talia Shire, the actress who played her, "might appear in a flashback" scene, said Stuart Herriot, a spokesman with Revolution Studios. But, he said, Burt Young will return as Adrian's brother, Paulie.
In the new film, Rocky, now a lonely 60-year-old widower, gets a chance to prove himself again when he is offered a bout with fictional reigning heavyweight champ Mason (The Line) Dixon.
"The champion's management says let's do this for real, for charity. Rocky says no but decides to be true to himself even though he's going to be berated by everyone. Just to compete, not to win," Stallone told Daily Variety.
The actor revealed that he's trying to get the real former heavyweight champion Roy Jones Jr. to play Dixon.
"I am drawing on a lot of my feelings that are in synch with many people's feelings about facing the last chapter of their lives and how they want it to be written," Stallone said. "Rocky goes through the skepticism of trying to go against the tide, to go against common sense."
The "Rocky" franchise has grossed $495 million in the U.S. alone and the first movie, released in 1976, won three Oscars - including Best Picture.
With News Wire Services
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