US EditionMatt Dillon To Play Frank Stallone Sr. In Amazon MGM Studios’ ‘I Play Rocky’
Matt Dillon joins Amazon MGM Studios' biopic about Sylvester Stallone's rise, portraying his father in a story of persistence behind the 1976 Best Picture-winning Rocky.
7 Articles
7 Articles
Matt Dillon To Play Frank Stallone Sr. In Amazon MGM Studios’ ‘I Play Rocky’
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Matt Dillon (Crash) has been tapped to play Frank Stallone Sr., father of Sylvester Stallone, in Amazon MGM Studios’ I Play Rocky, the making-of-Rocky movie from director Peter Farrelly, where Anthony Ippolito stars as a young Sylvester. Immigrating to the U.S. from Italy as a teenager, Stallone Sr. was a hairdresser who in the course of his life wound up opening a series of barber shops, salons and beauty schools acro…
The casting of the film I Play Rocky, which will return to the genesis of the boxing film with Sylvester Stallone, continues to grow. If Rocky's character was born with Sylvester Stallone, and both names have been intrinsically linked since 1976, with a last appearance of the former Philadelphia boxer in 2018 in the [...]
Matt Dillon, a member of one of the most memorable cinematic threesomes in history (and an Oscar nominee for Crash), has been cast as Frank Stallone Sr., Sylvester Stallone's father, in director Peter Farrelly's I Play Rocky. Anthony Ippolito, star of The Proposal
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 67% of the sources are Center
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
