![]() United Artists offered Stallone up to $340,000 to sell them the rights to the screenplay if he agreed to not star in the movie. ![]() THE STUDIO WAS INTERESTED IN HAVING JAMES CAAN, BURT REYNOLDS, OR RYAN O’NEAL PLAY ROCKY. In his original version, Adrian was Jewish, Mickey was racist, the Paulie character was Adrian’s Jewish mother, Apollo Creed was Jamaican, and the script ended with Rocky throwing the fight and opening a pet store for Adrian with the money he made. With a little bit of screenwriting experience, and the idea for Rocky in his head for almost a year after witnessing a Muhammad Ali fight, Sylvester Stallone-who had $106 in the bank at the time-spent about 84 hours using a pad and a pen to write the first draft of Rocky. STALLONE WROTE THE FIRST DRAFT OF ROCKY IN THREE AND A HALF DAYS. On the 40th anniversary of the original film's release, here are some heavy-hitting, high-flying facts about the Rocky series. The first Rocky-which was released 40 years ago-told a seemingly improbable rags-to-riches story about a loan shark/amateur boxer going the full 15 rounds against a champion fighter that weirdly mirrored the improbable story of how the movie went from a distant dream of Sylvester Stallone’s to a real, Best Picture Oscar-winning film and subsequent franchise.
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