Rocky, sold at auction for $ 437,500 Stallone notebook with script

Sylvester Stallone’s ‘Rocky’ notebook was auctioned by Julien’s Auctions in Los Angeles for $ 437,500, more than eight times its initial estimate of $ 50,000. This is a vintage 1970s spiral notebook from the Mead brand, containing pages of the original handwritten script by Stallone for what would become the 1976 Academy Award-winning ‘Rocky’ movie. The manuscript is one of a kind: it contains the first original details of the plot conceived by Stallone, the specifics of the scenes, the dialogues and the concepts to develop the characters (some of which were never made) and for his starring role as boxer Rocky Balboa, who would become the heavyweight champion of the world. The film launched Stallone’s career as a global superstar and pop culture icon and became one of the most successful film franchises of all time, spawning seven sequel films and spin-offs, with an eighth still to be released. one of the nearly 500 items from the actor and director’s personal collection offered by Julien’s Auctions with the catalog “Property from The Life and Career of Sylvester Stallone”. Costumes, props and memorabilia from his most iconic films – the film series “Rocky” and “Rambo”, “Cliffhanger”, “Demolition Man” – were sold as well as prizes, jewelry and furniture. movie legend silk, emblazoned with the American flag, from the third installment of the 1982 film series, “Rocky III,” sold for a staggering $ 200,000, twenty times its starting estimate of $ 10,000. Another highlight of the auction was an enlarged photograph of Rocky hand-decorated in acrylic and signed by Sylvester Stallone, which sold for $ 112,500, fifty-six times his original estimate. The iconography used by Stallone in his other classic role, the ‘former green cap John Rambo, from Rambo: First Blood and the Rambo series that broke the box office, was the protagonist of the auction, as a “Hero” knife personalized with the number 1, used by Stallone in the “Rambo” series was sold for $ 128,000 (twelve times the original estimate of $ 10,000); a canvas poncho worn by Stallone like John Rambo in the original film fetched $ 76,800.