Sylvester Stallone is looking to make one of his biggest hits even better.
Rocky IV: Rocky Vs. Drago -- The Ultimate Director's Cut
at the Philadelphia Film Center on Thursday, and he opened up about why he chose to turn his sights on recutting the beloved classic. "With COVID [lockdowns], I had about a year. And I thought, if there's any film I'd like to repair -- and there are some that are just beyond repair -- I thought I could do a lot better onWhen Rocky IV first hit theaters in November 1985, the sports drama came in at a breezy 91 run-time. For his director's cut,reports that Stallone added 42 minutes of new footage, and yet the movie comes in at only 93 minutes.
Stallone said that, as he went back and looked through what they'd shot over three decades ago,"I realized I had a lot of footage I never used! I looked at it and thought, 'What is wrong with me?!'"Stallone also reflected on how-- who played the mountainous soviet boxing champ Ivan Drago -- during one brutal boxing scene.
"I told Dolph, 'Go completely animal. Try to hunt me out in the first 30 seconds. Don't try too hard, but try.' He tried real hard and he caught me underneath the heart," Stallone recalled."And those gloves we had are actually illegal today. They were really hard gloves.""My heart was starting to bleed... my heart stopped beating," he reflected. "I ended up on a flight to St. John's Hospital and the rest is history.
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