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Sylvester Stallone initially rejected the script for Creed (2015). He believed Rocky's story was finished and hated the idea of portraying the hero as sick and frail. Ryan Coogler had to relentlessly persuade him to pass the torch.

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Sylvester Stallone says he initially passed on ‘Creed’ since Rocky was set to die in original script “Ryan Coogler was very persistent, kept pushing it. I didn’t want to do it, because the way he had written it, Rocky dies. He gets Lou Gehrig’s disease”

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