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"The way Stallone wrote the script was Adrian was standing in the back of the arena and comes walking towards the ring," Winkler says. "They said, 'If you want a new ending, you pay for it yourself.' Bob Chartoff and I didn't have a lot of money, but we put up $25,000 to do it." That $25K bought them roughly 25 extras and a lot of creative staging in order to make that small group look like a big crowd. United Artists - the studio that funded the film - agreed. Stallone and Carl Weathers face off in the climactic bout of the original Rocky (Photo: United Artists / Courtesy: Everett Collection) "He the fight, but he won his self-respect and he won the woman he loves," Winkler says of Stallone's revision. It's such a triumphant moment, you almost forget that Balboa lost to Creed. Instead of finding each other after the fight, Adrian enters the ring and she and Rocky embrace as Bill Conti's rousing score swells one last time. Realizing that they didn't want to bum audiences out further, Winkler and his producing partner, Robert Chartoff, asked Stallone to write a new ending - the one that fans now know by heart. It was kind of depressing, which by the way, the mid-'70s in America was pretty depressing!" "That whole high that we were getting from the audience suddenly dipped down to a real low. very kind of '70s realistic ending," Winkler explains. "When he loses the fight, he and Adrian meet up and they walk out of the arena. "What happened was when we had screenings for friends and some press, and during the fight scene, everybody was standing on their feet, cheering and yelling and all that," says the producer, who celebrated his 90th birthday this year. And according to Winkler, that's exactly why it was the wrong finale for Rocky. It's a melancholy ending that's closer in spirit to the movies that defined the late '60 and early '70s - think The Graduate or The Conversation. The poster for Rocky preserves the movie's original downbeat ending (Photo: United Artists/courtesy Everett Collection) It's an image that's preserved in the movie's poster, even though it never played for the general public. Avildsen shot found the boxer and his beloved Adrian (Talia Shire) holding hands as they exit the now-empty arena, headed back into obscurity after his brief brush with fame. But the final scene that Stallone scripted and director John G.
As in the theatrical cut, Rocky loses his bout with Apollo in a split decision. (Watch our video interview above.)īalboa's career might have been over before it began had audiences gotten a look at the movie's downbeat original ending when it premiered in theaters on Nov. Speaking with Yahoo Entertainment in 2018, Winkler promised that audiences will never see a Stallone death scene in a Rocky or Creed movie.
But Balboa's still standing and, according to longtime Rocky producer Irwin Winkler, he'll never die. Rocky has also narrowly avoided death at the hands of two screenwriters, including his own alter ego, Sylvester Stallone (more than that later).
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Across the ensuing four decades and eight movies, he's stared down a series of bigger and badder opponents both in the ring (Clubber Lang and Ivan Drago) and outside of it (financial ruin and cancer). Rocky ultimately didn't emerge the victor in that fight, but he - and we - won something more valuable: a film franchise that's endured for nearly a half-century and counting. Forty-five years ago, Philadelphia pugilist Rocky Balboa, aka the Italian Stallion, went the distance with heavyweight champ Apollo Creed in a 15-round battle for the ages.
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