Rocky Balboa: Sylvester Stallone?s Rocky VI28 October 2005 Sylvester Stallone announced last week that he will be the writer, director and lead actor in Rocky Balboa: Rocky 6. The film will be co-produced and co-financed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios and will be distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Stallone has been trying to make a sixth movie for years and has been reworking a script. The latest version, which sources said is similar to the tone and grit of the first two movies, persuaded the studios to negotiate a deal. Stallone has signed on to continue his Italian Stallion role as boxer Rocky Balboa.
The story brings Rocky back to being a regular guy who has to find himself and what he really wants after Adrian dies. It seems to be a great ending as it concludes the whole Rocky collection, a lot better than Rocky 5 did. In Rocky 6, Rocky comes out of retirement in Philadelphia to fight a few low-profile boxers. However, the heavyweight champion of the world, Mason "The Line" Dixon, approaches him to fight.
"Rocky Balboa is about everybody who feels they want to participate in the race of life, rather than be a bystander," Stallone said in a statement. "You're never too old to climb a mountain, if that's your desire."
The film Rocky Balboa is going to be filmed in December in both Philadelphia and Los Angeles nearly 30 years after the original "Rocky".
Stallone received Academy Award nominations for starring in and writing "Rocky," and the 1976 MGM film won an Oscar for best picture, best director (John G. Avildsen) and best editing (Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad). The movie grossed $117.3 million at the domestic boxoffice, making Stallone a film star and creating one of cinema's most famous characters. | 
