{"id":804136,"date":"2026-07-15T19:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/804136\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:51:09","slug":"i-play-rocky-trailer-anthony-ippolito-stars-as-sly-stallone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/804136\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Play Rocky’ Trailer: Anthony Ippolito Stars as Sly Stallone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn the trailer for I Play Rocky<\/a><\/a>, Anthony Ippolito<\/a> plays Sylvester Stallone<\/a> playing Rocky<\/a> in and around, well, Rocky, the instant-classic 1976 film that put one of our greatest action stars on the map. Ippolito\u2019s look for the film is right and the voice, described in the trailer (below) as sounding like \u201cyou\u2019ve got rocks in your mouth,\u201d is spot on \u2014 it does sound like Ippolito has rocks in his mouth! Stephan James is pretty pitch-perfect and photo realistic as Carl Weathers<\/a> too.<\/p>\n

\n\tIf Ippolito looks familiar \u2014 and not just because he looks like Stallone (or even Jeremy Allen White dressed as Stallone) \u2014 it is probably because he\u2019s the guy who played Al Pacino in Paramount limited series\u00a0The Offer. Yes, Ippolito has become Hollywood\u2019s go-to for portraying young, Italian, breakout movie stars in \u201970s films.<\/p>\n

\n\tI Play Rocky also stars Matt Dillon, AnnaSophia Robb, P.J. Byrne, Toby Kebbell, Tracy Letts, Jay Duplass and Kiki Seto, and is produced by Peter Farrelly, who also directs, as well as Christian Baha, Toby Emmerich and Paul Currie. The script hails from Peter Gamble, though there should probably be an honorable mention to the guy who wrote Rocky \u2014 that\u2019d also be Stallone.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is, after all, the Rocky screenplay that anchors the biopic. I Play Rocky tells the true story of \u201can unknown actor with an unshakable belief that he wasn\u2019t just meant to write Rocky \u2014 he was meant to be Rocky Balboa,\u201d the synopsis reads.<\/p>\n

\n\tStallone would end up being Balboa for five decades.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTold \u2018no\u2019 at every turn, Sylvester Stallone bets everything on himself, holding the line on playing the lead against seemingly impossible odds,\u201d the Amazon MGM Studios breakdown continues. \u201cThe result is the ultimate underdog story behind the ultimate underdog movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt ain\u2019t about how hard you hit \u2014 it\u2019s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. Sure, Rocky loses in the end, but Rocky was a big winner. Stallone was Oscar-nominated for the screenplay he purportedly wrote in like half a week. Rocky didn\u2019t win that particular Academy Award \u2014 it went to Network \u2014 but it won best picture in a famously stacked year that also included Network, Taxi Driver and All the President\u2019s Men in the category.<\/p>\n

\n\tMoreover, Rocky\u2018s rocketship success birthed a major franchise. To-date, there are six Rocky films and three Creed spinoffs (with a fourth in development). Stallone wrote all of the Rocky movies and Creed II \u2014 the one that (spoiler alert) killed off his character.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the trailer below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the trailer for I Play Rocky, Anthony Ippolito plays Sylvester Stallone playing Rocky in and around, well,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[108725,49,48,282871,75,108726,337,83694,24774],"class_list":["post-804136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-anthony-ippolito","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carl-weathers","tag-entertainment","tag-i-play-rocky","tag-movies","tag-rocky","tag-sylvester-stallone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}