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This the stuff of Legend.
Written and directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Peter Farrelly (Green Book), I PLAY ROCKY is the true story of how the iconic boxing film ROCKY was made. The film will enter the ring in time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ten-time Oscar nominated and Best Picture winning ROCKY.
Anthony Ippolito stars as the young Sylvester Stallone, alongside AnnaSophia Robb, Matt Dillon, Stephan James, Toby Kebbell, Tracy Letts, Jay Duplass and P.J. Byrne.
The film is an electrifying true story about an unknown actor with an unshakable belief that he wasn’t just meant to write Rocky—he was meant to be Rocky Balboa. Told “no” 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.
Going up against films like Network and Taxi Driver, ROCKY won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Editing at the 49th Academy Awards. Sylvester Stallone became the third person in Oscar history to be nominated in a single year as both an actor and as a screenwriter (the others were Charles Chaplin in 1940 and Orson Welles in 1941).
ROCKY is one of the greatest stories in Hollywood History and has one of the most iconic scores from composer Bill Conti.
I PLAY ROCKY opens in the US on November 13 and released by Entertainment Film Distributors in cinemas, UK and Ireland, on November 6th, 2026.