Why a sixth Rocky movie, 30 years later?
SYLVESTER STALLONE: I felt obligated to try and end the series the way it should have ended. I was very negligent [with 1990’s] Rocky V. It just didn’t leave anyone with any sense of hope. It was very reflective of where I was at the time. So, it bothered me. And then around ’96, I thought, Oh, I want to approach Hollywood with the idea. And they said, basically, never. I kept going back and visiting and there was a certain studio head that wanted no part of it. So, at that time MGM was just not interested and I thought, This is never going to happen. Then, as fate would have it, MGM was sold [to Sony], new people in, and that was it. But I have to thank the guy who really got the ball rolling, [Revolution Studio president] Joe Roth. Did you feel like you and the character had more to say or as Rocky puts it, ”stuff in the basement” that you needed to get out? Yeah, I did. Then I thought, Sly, you’re not so special. I think a lot of people got stuff in the basement and they never get
