Stallone’s War on Rocky: This Time It’s Personal

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Matthew Belloni
August 1, 2022

Have you read these irate Sylvester Stallone posts on Instagram? Fans of Sly and the Rocky movies might be surprised to see the star go full Italian Stallion on 93-year-old producer Irwin Winkler and MGM. “I really would like [to] have at least a little [of] WHAT’s LEFT of my RIGHTS back,” Stallone posted to his 15 million followers on July 18. And just today, reacting to the news that MGM is in early development on a Drago spinoff potentially with Dolph Lundgren, Stallone posted art of a bloodied Winkler and called him the “most hated, untalented, decrepited [sic] producer in Hollywood,” followed by “RETURN MY RIGHTS BLOODSUCKERS!”