“I’m Glad He Didn’t Sell Out”: Amid Ownership Rights Dispute, Sylvester Stallone Declining Over $250,000 to Sell ‘Rocky’ Script in Forgotten Clip Makes Fans Nostalgic

Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone gained worldwide acclaim after the success of his boxing-based blockbuster movie ‘Rocky’. The movie franchise is one of the highest-grossing franchises ever, generating a total revenue of $1.5 billion across all movies. However, this was not always the case as producers were very skeptical of the script and didn’t think it had the potential to be successful.

In addition, Stallone was relatively unknown as an actor before ‘Rocky’, only adding to the risk factor. This led the producers of the film to once offer him hundreds of thousands of dollars to walk away from his creation. Despite this, Stallone refused this offer to continue working on the movie and even detailed what the producers didn’t take into account while making their offer.

Sylvester Stallone declined over $250,000 to walk away from ‘Rocky’

In a past interview with the BBC, Stallone revealed that he was offered large sums of money to walk away. However, for him, a lot of money didn’t matter much as he wanted to try out his acting skills and wanted to see if he could make it as an actor.

“It went up to about $265,000, to stay away get off my lawn boy. But what they didn’t count was, when a person hasn’t had that type of money, they don’t miss it. In other words, if you haven’t ridden in a Rolls Royce, you don’t mind bouncing around in a Volkswagen. You don’t have that frame of reference. But more than that if I knew I sold it even for $500,0000 after the money was gone, I knew I would be very bitter that I sold out because my one love was to at least fail on my own terms.” he said

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This was not as seeing Stallone not sell out, especially amid his dispute for the rights of the movie made fans nostalgic. Moreover, they also made their feelings known as they reacted to this forgotten and resurfaced clip.

Stallone not selling his Rocky script makes fans proud

One fan touted Stallone as a great actor who had great films as well.

Another fan claimed that it is always a great decision to bet on yourself.

A fan was glad that Stallone didn’t sell his script. Moreover, he added that this was an important life lesson and one should always believe in himself.

However, one fan found out that Sly was the one who wrote ‘Rocky’ after watching this interview.

Lastly, one fan stated that Stallone might be the only person to refuse the money and was stunned that he wrote the movie as well.

The fans were excited to get a glimpse into the past and see ‘Sly’ in a very different manner. The interview only showcased how articulate he was in pitting his words and why he should have been picked as ‘Rocky’ in the first place.

However, despite Stallone carrying the franchise for over three decades he currently is in dispute with the franchise’s producer Irwin Winkler. According to Stallone, he doesn’t own even a percent of the movie ‘Creed’ which is a continuation of the Rocky franchise and was also written by him.

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