ROCKY IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985)

[Moltisanti]

Tony Burton has passed away:

http://www.thewrap.com/tony-burton-rocky-actor-dead-at-78/

[Jox]

R.I.P.

[Jox]

Stallone is auctioning many of his movie items, scripts, viewfinder, costumes etc.
http://entertainment.ha.com/c/auction-h ... aleNo=7111
http://www.ha.com/information/stallone- ... 111-112015


ROCKY IV items:
http://entertainment.ha.com/c/search-re ... rch-071515

Here is the Drago costume with a video of Sly talking about it:
http://entertainment.ha.com/itm/enterta ... ion-071515

Great 508-pages catalog with some rare photos:

flip online
http://entertainment.ha.com/c/ecatalog. ... wer-071515

Downloadable PDF version
http://entertainment.ha.com/c/s/d/front ... logpdf.pdf

[Abz15]

Someone pointed out that IMDB now states a 107 mins "director's cut", here's my thoughts about it:

1/ I never heard about it and IMDB contains much crap infos
2/ I'm sure the workprint was that long (and possibly longer) at an early stage but the release version couldn't have been that long anyway. The are a few deleted scenes but not that much. The two (advance and shooting) drafts of the script I own don't contain that much more than what's in the movie.
(And we know how Sly wanted it to be slick/MTV-like editorialy, which wasn't that common yet in those days)

Have you seen the deleted footage??

[Jox]

There are a few photos, and I own a copy of the production screenplay.

[Jox]

Special screening June 10th in Franklin, TN
http://www.themoviegang.com/new-blog/
http://www.themoviegang.com/new-events/2016/5/9/rocky-4

[Jox]

I may have already mentioned this:
the 30 years old KARATE KID II song "Glory of Love" was originally written as the end title song for ROCKY IV but the producers rejected it...

It was originally written for Rocky IV, but the producers hated it.

“About two weeks later the people from Karate Kid II were looking for a song, so they came to the studio where I was working and I played them Glory Of Love and they immediately loved it, so I changed a few words to make it even more fitting,” Cetera recalls.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entert ... 1aa7d053c9

But for 'Glory of Love,' I had a good feeling on that one. David Foster and I were hired to write a song for the 'Rocky IV' picture. We wrote it, submitted it and they rejected it, so we were stuck with this great song. Then the people at 'The Karate Kid, Part II' were looking for a title song, so I changed some of the words in it and it actually worked better for that film."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/a ... story.html

Lucky for them, he had a song on hand he'd written for the Rocky IV soundtrack titled "The Glory of Love." It was about Rocky's love for Adrian, and probably even America itself, but the "man who will fight for your honor" that is much like "a knight in shining armor from a long time ago" easily worked for The Karate Kid sequel.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/video ... e-20160414

[Jox]

How Robert Tepper's "No Easy Way Out" Became a Rocky Soundtrack Classic
http://www.laweekly.com/music/how-rober ... ic-7154574

“The big promotional lie at the time was that I had written the song for Rocky IV. That’s not the truth,” Tepper reveals. “Stallone had come to my label looking for music. He heard the song and went crazy for it. He tried to get me to do another song that was specific for the movie, but the timing was too late on that.”

[Jox]

officialslystallone

God I loved punching Drago .. Too bad he hit me back ...

[shooby]

[Jox]

30th anniversary screening (35mm) and quiz at London's Prince Charles Cinema on September 7th
https://www.princecharlescinema.com/events/rocky-iv/
https://www.princecharlescinema.com/sea ... film-quiz/

[Jox]

Rocky IV: How Hollywood Montages Helped End the Cold War
http://www.thatsnotcurrent.com/rocky-iv ... -cold-war/

[Jox]

Drago spin-off novel called "Drago: On Mountains we Stand"
free copy sent anywhere worldwide through http://www.facebook.com/Dragobook

This following Australian podcast put their finger on the fact that the author put as much effort making up the legend of imaginary author Todd Noy as he did writing this short spin-off novel:
http://theblankslate.libsyn.com/60-rock ... rd-mcgeown

[Jox]

How Robert Tepper's "No Easy Way Out" Became a Rocky Soundtrack Classic
http://www.laweekly.com/music/how-rober ... ic-7154574

“The big promotional lie at the time was that I had written the song for Rocky IV. That’s not the truth,” Tepper reveals. “Stallone had come to my label looking for music. He heard the song and went crazy for it. He tried to get me to do another song that was specific for the movie, but the timing was too late on that.”

[Abz15]

Can i have a copy of the Screenplay? also the images of the deleted scenes? i heard that stallone also cut about an hour of footage from the movie.