Sylvester Stallone wants rights to ‘Rocky’ back: “I want to leave something to my children” | showbiz

Stallone posted a drawing by producer Irwin Winkler, depicted as a snake with a blade for a tongue. “A very flattering portrait of the great producer of ‘Rocky’ and ‘Creed’, Irwin Winkler,” the actor wrote in the caption. “After Irwin has been in control of ‘Rocky’ for over 47 years, and now ‘Creed’, I’d really like to get back at least a little bit of WHAT’S REMAIN of my rights, before it’s passed on to ONLY YOUR CHILDREN – I think that would be a fair gesture from this 93-year-old gentleman?”

Sylvester Stallone created the character of Rocky Balboa and wrote the screenplay for ‘Rocky’, which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1977. Stallone was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay and an Academy Award for Best Actor, and played the character in five more sequels and in the two ‘Creed’ films.

Stallone received a share of the proceeds from the first ‘Rocky’ film and a number of sequels, but in recent years regularly expressed his displeasure with the share he still has. “I have zero ownership about ‘Rocky,'” he told the film magazine ‘Variety’ in 2019. He wrote on Instagram: “This is a painful subject that is eating my soul because I want to leave something of ‘Rocky’ to my children.”

A third film in the ‘Creed’ franchise will be released this fall, after ‘Creed’ (2015) and ‘Creed II’ (2018) picked up the threads of the ‘Rocky’ films. Stallone would have earned more than 10 million dollars from those two films. ‘Creed III’ will be the first film in the series in which Stallone does not play a role, although he is still in the credits as producer.

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