There’s A Movie About The Making Of Rocky Happening, And I’m Really Digging Who’s Been Cast As Young Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone's Rocky inside pet store wearing his black hat and black leather jacket.

In 1976, Sylvester Stallone achieved worldwide fame with the release of Rocky, one of the best boxing movies of all time. It not only won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and was nominated in seven other categories, it kicked off a franchise that was still going as of 2023 with the release of Creed III. Now a movie about the making of Rocky, which Stallone also wrote, is in the works, and I’m really liking the guy they cast to play the man behind the Italian Stallion in the mid-‘70s.

Anthony Ippolito has been selected to play Sylvester Stallone in I Play Rocky, which is being put together by Amazon MGM. THR shared the casting news, along with mentioning that Green Book’s Peter Farrelly is directing this movie about the great efforts Stallone took to make Rocky a reality and ensure that he played the title role. As you’ll see when comparing the below still of Ippolito to the one of Stallone in Rocky above, the resemblance is quite remarkable.