Sylvester Stallone Gets His Own Biopic in the I Play Rocky Trailer

The story ofRockyseems to be over for all intents and purposes. Sylvester Stallone is now 80 years old, and he last played the beloved boxing champ in 2018’sCreed II.Stallone did not return forCreed III, and the hinted spinoff for the aging Rocky out ofCreed II has yet to appear. We may have finally seen the last of the Italian Stallion.

Ah, but these Hollywood studios are a crafty bunch. Instead of a newRocky, why not the old one again? I Play Rocky, directed byGreen Book’s (andThere’s Something About Mary’s) Peter Farrelly,is a biopicabout Stallone in his early years as a struggling actor trying to get his dream project made. It also doubles as a kind of asneaky remake of 1976’sRockyitself, since you get to see many ofits iconic shots and locations recreated in the film.

See how many you can spot in the I Play Rockytrailer below:

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That’sAnthonyIppolitoas Stallone and I have to say: He does a hell of a Stallone voice. It’s borderline uncanny. (Ippolito previously played Al Pacino inThe Offer, the miniseries about the making ofThe Godfather.This dude’s got quite a career playing famous actors of the 1970s. Somebody better make a movie about the making ofThe Deer Hunter so he can do De Niro next.)

Here isI Play Rocky’s official synopsis:

The film is an electrifying true story about an unknown actor with an unshakable belief that he wasn’t just meant to write Rocky—he was meant to be Rocky Balboa. Told “no” at every turn, Sylvester Stallone bets everything on himself, holding the line on playing the lead against seemingly impossible odds. The result is the ultimate underdog story behind the ultimate underdog movie.

I Play Rocky is scheduled to open in theaters on November 6.