Sylvester Stallone

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q40026: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Staying Alive (1983); Paradise Alley. Count them as writer (2 films), actor (19 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Saturday Night Fever (1977): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Staying Alive (1983), which they directed: Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Staying Alive (the host's read). The sequel; the hosts agree it is a bad one but Simmons is glad it exists and thinks it did not ruin the original.
    “I'm glad it exists.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:17:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast) · through Staying Alive (1983), which they directed: Saturday Night Fever ⇒ Staying Alive (the host's read). Staying Alive is so different that it did not ruin the original the way most sequels would.
    “it's just so different from Saturday Night Fever that it didn't ruin it in the same way most sequels would.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:18:06 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

George P. Cosmatos: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · them, directly: Sylvester Stallone ⇒ George P. Cosmatos (the maker said so: Russell, in his True West magazine interview). Russell says he got the ghost director through Stallone, who had done the same on Rambo II.
    “I called up Sly.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (2) everyone in directing

Acting (33) everyone in acting

Other (7) everyone in other

Writing (2) everyone in writing

What was said about them, by kind

career (8)

  1. career (career): Sylvester Stallone → Quentin Tarantino. Stallone's self-made breakout is likened to Tarantino crossed with acting, and Tarantino was the runner-up for who won the movie.
    “It's Tarantino crossed with acting almost?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:14:52 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Sylvester Stallone → On the Waterfront. Stallone may have wished to make more movies like On the Waterfront than the franchises that became golden handcuffs.
    “I would have liked to have made more movies that are like on the waterfront or whatever”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:22:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Sylvester Stallone → Rocky III. Stallone's best A-list run came with Rocky 3 and First Blood in the same year, a roughly six-year run.
    “He has one of the best, probably 6 year A-list movie star runs ever.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:22:54 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Sylvester Stallone → Nighthawks. After Rocky he tried to separate from the character: beard in Nighthawks, big weight loss in Victory.
    “You know, like he's in Nighthawks, he grew a beard.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:23:09 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Sylvester Stallone → Cop Land. Stallone was in and out of the Rocky persona until Copland and its physical transformation.
    “and obviously he spends most of his career like in and out of that persona, really until Copland.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:23:22 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Sylvester Stallone → Rocky III. Stallone's Apex Mountain: Rocky 3 and Rambo in 82.
    “I think his Apex Mountain was that Rocky 3, Rambo.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:28:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Sylvester Stallone → Rocky. Stallone writing and starring in Rocky is the biggest 'who won the movie' of all time.
    “Obviously, Si Stallone.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:45:37 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Paradise Alley → Sylvester Stallone. Shoemaker says Paradise Alley explains why Stallone's later career was so Rocky and Rambo heavy.
    “explains why Stallone's career was like heavily rocky and Rambo going forward”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:09:13 · David Shoemaker (0.80 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (industry): Sylvester Stallone → Henry Winkler. Winkler had to ask ABC to give back Stallone's script, which Stallone had sold to ABC.
    “Winkler has to go back to ABC, ask for the script back.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:21:26 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): George P. Cosmatos → Sylvester Stallone. Russell says he got the ghost director through Stallone, who had done the same on Rambo II.
    “I called up Sly.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (people): Sylvester Stallone → Antonio Tarver. Stallone removed Roy Jones Jr. from Rocky Balboa and put Antonio Tarver in.
    “Sloane removed him from the movie and put Antonio Tarver in the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:58:04 · Van Lathan (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Sylvester Stallone → Staying Alive. Stallone directed Staying Alive and put himself in the redone opening credits.
    “because he's directing the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:18:18 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Sylvester Stallone → Burgess Meredith. Stallone reportedly called Meredith one of the all-time great stick men, a story relayed via Rapaport.
    “One of the all time great stick men.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:12:58 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (betting on yourself): Chazz Palminteri → Sylvester Stallone. Palminteri's refusal to sell the one-man show without starring is compared to Stallone and Rocky.
    “I'm betting on myself move.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:32:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Sylvester Stallone → Tango & Cash. A host loves Tango and Cash.
    “Tango and Cash is one of my favorite movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:24:25 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)

what-if (5)

  1. what-if (what-if): Sylvester Stallone → Good Will Hunting. Asked whether Damon and Affleck's Good Will Hunting is the same make-your-own-movie story; the difference is they'd been in movies already.
    “Would Good Wolf Hunting be in the same mode of a movie where the guys just went, fuck it, we're going to make our own movie and explodes?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:20:25 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Sylvester Stallone → Seven. Stallone reportedly turned down Mills, post-Tango and Cash, hunting for a dramatic movie that turned out to be Copland; Sly would have derailed it.
    “Sly in this movie derails it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:00:38 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Eddie Murphy → Sylvester Stallone. With anyone but Eddie, including Stallone, it would be an actively bad movie because the plot is known in the first 30 minutes.
    “I think that you could safely say this would be an actively bad movie with anybody besides Eddie Murphy”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:17:22 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if): Sylvester Stallone → Saving Private Ryan. Stallone's rewrite aimed for an opening like Saving Private Ryan on the streets of Detroit, which was too expensive.
    “The script he wrote, the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan on the beaches of Normandy was what he was going for.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. what-if (what-if): Sylvester Stallone → Martin Scorsese. Stallone was signed and Scorsese was offered the director's job and was bewildered by the script.
    “Scorsese offered the director's tour.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Sylvester Stallone: Stallone saw Wepner fight Ali and wrote the script in three and a half days.
    “Stallone so inspired pumps out the movie in 3.5 days.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:20:14 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Sylvester Stallone: He sold the script to ABC; Henry Winkler had to get it back, and Stallone insisted on writing and starring for far less money.
    “Stallone betting on himself is a chapter.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:21:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Sylvester Stallone: This is the 11th Stallone Rewatchable, moving him into the top five with Denzel.
    “By the way, we've done, this is our 11th Stallone rewatchable.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:23:34 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Sylvester Stallone: He smoked so much making Rocky that he quit smoking in real life.
    “In real life, he quit after Rocky because he was like, it was too gross.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:12:34 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Sylvester Stallone: Urban legend: Stallone demanded a certain orange juice in his trailer, there was a fight, and he quit. His version ended with a Lamborghini racing a freight train.
    “He was old, 2 weeks for his filming.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:02:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Sylvester Stallone: Russell says Stallone supplied the ghost director and had done the same on Rambo II.
    “I called up Sly.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)