{"id":1983074,"date":"2025-08-27T19:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1983074"},"modified":"2025-08-27T19:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:03:04","slug":"anthony-ippolito-to-play-sylvester-stallone-in-making-of-rocky-movie-for-amazon-mgm-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/anthony-ippolito-to-play-sylvester-stallone-in-making-of-rocky-movie-for-amazon-mgm-studios\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Ippolito To Play Sylvester Stallone In Making Of \u2018Rocky\u2019 Movie For Amazon MGM Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/ZdKoe7wTJxMibevT6FH6NQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjg7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/deadline.com\/dcd4395fdc0bbec653b57d88c4322be7\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anthony Ippolito is set to star in\u00a0I Play Rocky, with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/play-rocky-peter-farrelly-direct-173927780.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Peter Farrelly directing;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Peter Farrelly directing<\/a> for Amazon MGM Studios. The film will be released in theaters.\u00a0Toby Emmerich and Christian Baha will produce. Peter Gamble wrote the script.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ippolito will star as a young Sylvester Stallone in the film which follows the actor before he came a mega star. His unshakable belief was that he wasn\u2019t just meant to write Rocky \u2014 he was meant to be Rocky Balboa. Told \u201cno\u201d at every turn, Stallone bets everything on himself, holding the line on playing the lead against seemingly impossible odds. The result is the ultimate underdog story behind the ultimate underdog movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_2mdijb8lb2mav5ubsddbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 hidden pb-5 md:block\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_4mdijb8lb2mav5ubsddbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The\u00a0Rocky\u00a0franchise, distributed by United Artists and later MGM, is one of the most iconic and financially successful sports film franchises of all time, grossing more than $1.7 billion globally, including the\u00a0Creed\u00a0spinoffs. Created by and starring Stallone as underdog boxer Rocky Balboa, the franchise launched in 1976 with the original film winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Stallone was nominated for Best Actor and Original Screenplay. His performance and creative vision turned\u00a0Rocky\u00a0into a cultural touchstone and established him as a Hollywood legend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ippolito is best <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/offer-anthony-ippolito-play-al-170046176.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:known for playing Al Pacino;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">known for playing Al Pacino<\/a> in the Paramount+ limited series\u00a0The Offer. He also appeared in the Netflix\u2019s hit film\u00a0Purple Hearts. He is represented by Gersh, Untitled Entertainment and Lichter Grossman Nichols.\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter was the first to break the news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>RELATED: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/emotional-sylvester-stallone-remembers-incredible-002154163.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Emotional Sylvester Stallone Remembers \u201cIncredible\u201d \u2018Rocky\u2019 Co-Star Carl Weathers: \u201cKeep Punching, Apollo\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Emotional Sylvester Stallone Remembers \u201cIncredible\u201d \u2018Rocky\u2019 Co-Star Carl Weathers: \u201cKeep Punching, Apollo\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.deadline.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Deadline's Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Deadline&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. 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The film will be released in theaters.\u00a0Toby Emmerich and Christian Baha will produce. Peter Gamble wrote the script. Ippolito will star as a young Sylvester Stallone in the film which follows the actor before he came a mega [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1983075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[293560,356251,356254,356252,356253,342841,23943,341375,356255],"class_list":["post-1983074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-amazon-mgm-studios","tag-anthony-ippolito","tag-christian-baha","tag-peter-farrelly","tag-peter-gamble","tag-rocky-balboa","tag-sylvester-stallone","tag-toby-emmerich","tag-unshakable-belief"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Anthony-Ippolito-To-Play-Sylvester-Stallone-In-Making-Of-\u2018Rocky.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}