Anthony Ippolito is set to star in I Play Rocky , with Peter Farrelly directing for Amazon MGM Studios. The film will be released in theaters. Toby 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 star. His unshakable belief was 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.

The Rocky franchise, distributed by United Artists and later MGM, is one of the most iconic and financially successful sports film fra

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