How many days Sylvester Stallone took to write the script for Rocky?

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21st August: The 1976 sports drama hit film ‘Rocky’ directed by John G. Avildsen was written by Sylvester Stallone, who also played the character of Rocky Balboa.

The movie tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an illiterate, benevolent working-class Italian-American boxer who works as a debt collector for a loan shark in the slums of Philadelphia, gets a shot at the world heavyweight championship.

The film has been credited as being the most influential boxing movie ever made, but do you know how was it made?

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After Stallone returned from watching the iconic boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner which took place at Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio on March 24, 1975, he began writing the script for the now-famous movie ‘Rocky.’ He completed the script within three and a half days and presented it to his representatives Craig T. Rumar and Larry Kubik.

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They saw the potential in the screenplay Stallone had presented and after repeated negotiations with Rumar and Kubik, Winkler-Chartoff agreed to not only accredit Sylvester Stallone as the writer but also signed a contract to star him as the lead role in the movie and the rest is history.

Despite the fact that the match inspired Stallone to write this legendary movie, he claims that Wepner did not provide any inspiration for his character. Other possible inspirations for the film may include Rocky Graziano’s autobiography ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me,’ and the movie of the same name.

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