A new movie about the making of Rocky is in the works, featuring a character inspired by young Sylvester Stallone

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. (Image credit: United Artists/MGM) Per the movie’s official logline, it “follows a struggling actor with a partially paralyzed face and a speech impediment who writes a script that a big movie studio wants to buy, but he refuses to sell it unless he gets to play the lead. Turning down an offer of life-changing money, he instead works for pennies to get the movie made with himself in the starring role.” Peter Farrelly will helm the movie and Peter Gamble is writing the script. Farrelly also wrote and directed 2018’sGreen Book, which won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. More recently, he also directed The Greatest Beer Run Ever and Ricky Stanicky, both of which starred Zac Efron. Following the underdog story of Stallone’s Rocky Balboa from small-time club fighter to taking on the world heavyweight champion, Rocky was …