![]() ![]() It’s a different philosophy - Irwin Winkler’s and Michael B. It was taken in a direction that is quite different than I would’ve taken it. That’s a regretful situation because I know what it could have been. Is it going to be weird for you to see Creed III without being in the film? I’m not an executive producer on the Creed movies. This is a classic case of them going around and trying to continually cherry-pick aspects of Rocky without even asking me if I want to join in. I’m actually calling him today because he underwent some ankle situation. Have you two patched things up since then? There was also a Drago spinoff referenced in your post, and you called out Dolph Lundgren for not telling you about it. The other producer, Bob Chartoff, was always very nice. Or if you don’t get more money, that you can block it. You can’t just because you want your children to have a job. If I write it and the studio agrees to do it, it’s done. I didn’t expect to get –– yeah, forget that. You wanted this to apply retroactively to the other movies? But I said, “After 45 years, can we change the playing field a little bit? Level it out? Can’t I get a piece of what I created all these years ago?” I read 600 pages of your past interviews to prepare for this, and I never heard you sound as angry as you were in that Instagram post. The people who have done literally nothing, control it. Who knew Rocky would go on for another 45 years? I’ve never used one from anyone else - and the irony is that I don’t own any of it. At the time I was so excited to be working and I didn’t understand this is a business. It was a deal that was done unbeknownst to me by people that I thought were close to me and they basically gave away whatever rights I would have had. You made more headlines with your Instagram post in July asking Rocky producer Irwin Winkler to give you some of the rights to the character you created. Sometimes I put the work ahead of, and that is a tragic mistake which won’t happen again. It’s the John Lennon thing: “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” Hopefully, you’re involved with people who understand the foibles of life and the fragility of it and how rare a real good relationship is. Stallone with (from left) wife Jennifer Flavin and daughters Sistine and Sophia. Does it surprise you that the public is still interested, and is that going to be part of the show? You’ve had this surge of headlines lately about your personal life. But each time you go in a different direction, people go, “Oh God, you must be in trouble.” Just the opposite. I don’t look at it as stooping to conquer. ![]() This is a chance where I’m going to be with my kids under a work condition where they get to see me in action and I get to see them in action. I thought it would be the ultimate home movie. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to do the reality show that I’ve been taking a lot of shit for. Everyone goes, “I wish I’d shown love more” or “I wish I’d spent more time with the kids.” I’m riding that boat. Now you don’t have the luxury of missing – especially with the family and the kids. When you’re young, you’re just haphazardly shooting wildly and hope you hit something. Now I realize there are only so many bullets left in the gun. You’ve long said you were motivated by wanting to make up for a slew of unsuccessful movies you made in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ![]() He says he’s 75 and she flees the room in horror. There’s a scene in the Tulsa King pilot where your character, Dwight, sleeps with a woman and then she asks how old he is. Still, even Stallone admits it’s going to be a struggle to keep his box office streak rolling into another decade: “Seven is gonna be tough.” Though Stallone is 76 years old (How did that happen? He isn’t sure, either), the man’s energy and focus do not appear to have waned. There is also Stallone’s upcoming first-ever reality show, which will chronicle his home life, like Keeping Up With the Kardashians (an idea he will defend shortly). Stallone plays a mafioso released from prison who’s exiled to Oklahoma to rebuild his crime empire. And now, Stallone is back with his first TV show: Paramount+’s Tulsa King, the latest heartland series from Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan. “The shark counts.”Īh, right - 2021’s The Suicide Squad, where Stallone voiced King Shark. “Six,” interrupts Stallone, smiling and puffing on his fat cigar. SYLVESTER STALLONE Photographed By David Needleman ![]()
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