A few months ago, Sylvester Stallone announced to his millions of fans via social media that he was in the process of creating a director’s cut of ‘Rocky IV’.
From what Stallone has said and in reading various editorials elsewhere, it seems what we are going to get is a much more ‘realistic’ and ‘serious’ version of the film.
Already it has been announced that the robot will be cut from the finished product, which is a promising start. There’s a chance then that most of the ‘eighties cheese’ might also go – such as the musical montages.
The trailer for the new film dropped a couple of days ago and it looked incredible!
My impressions were that a lot more focus will be placed on the Apollo vs Drago fight, perhaps to align it better with ‘Creed’ and ‘Creed II’. I noted that Apollo’s ring entrance was featured in the trailer, which hopefully means James Brown’s ‘Living in America’ will be there in all its glory. What a brilliant scene that was!
Apparently over forty minutes of unseen footage will be added to the film.
I’m really looking forward to this one.
The trailer can be watched at the link below, courtesy of ‘JoBlo Movie Trailers’ on YouTube.
Sean Carslake 