Fan CastingRocky (2006)

Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay for Rocky in three and a half days, shortly after watching the championship match between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner that took place at Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio, on March 24, 1975. Wepner was TKO'd in the 15th round of the match by Ali, with few expecting him to last as long as he did. Despite the match motivating Stallone to begin work on Rocky, Stallone had passed the script around for years but wasn't able to get it approved until 2005 with stuff like Million Dollar Baby and Cinderella Man doing really well at the box-office had convinced MGM to greenlight the movie with Stallone himself as one of the producers. Plot: Rocky Balboa a small-time boxer from working-class Philadelphia, is arbitrarily chosen to take on the reigning world heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed when the undefeated fighter's scheduled opponent is injured. While training with feisty former bantamweight contender Mickey Goldmill, Rocky tentatively begins a relationship with Adrian the wallflower sister of his meat-packer pal Paulie