Matt Dillon Joins ‘I Play Rocky’ as Sylvester Stallone’s Father

Overview

• Deadline reports Dillon will portray Frank Stallone Sr., a demanding figure depicted in the Sly documentary as both supportive and abusive.
• Anthony Ippolito plays a young Sylvester Stallone, with Stephan James as Carl Weathers and AnnaSophia Robb as Sasha Czack.
• Peter Farrelly directs from a script by Peter Gamble for Amazon MGM Studios, with Toby Emmerich and Christian Baha producing and FilmNation handling international services.
• The film dramatizes Stallone writing Rocky in about three and a half days, drawing inspiration from Ali–Wepner, and refusing to sell the script unless he starred.
• I Play Rocky is in pre-production, with local reports pointing to location filming in New Jersey and Philadelphia from late October through December and no release date announced.