Is ‘I Play Rocky’ Original or Adapted? Stallone’s ‘Rocky’ Origin Story Faces a ‘Barbie’-Style Oscar Dilemma (EXCLUSIVE)

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2 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments Sylvester Stallone wrote “Rocky” in three days. Figuring out which Oscar screenplay category the movie about him writing it belongs in is taking a lot longer.

Amazon MGM Studios ’ “ I Play Rocky ” has been the subject of multiple conversations among the studio, the Writers Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the film’s creative team over whether Peter Gamble’s script will compete as an original or adapted screenplay. No determination has been made.

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No films afterward will be considered. Gamble conceived and wrote the script as an original, and it isn’t based on a book, article, memoir or any other single published work.

He drafted it on spec, and a spot on the Black List carried it to producers Christian Baha and Toby Emmerich and eventually to director Peter Farrelly, who helmed best picture winner “Green Book” (2018). It’s Gamble’s second produced feature script after “Office Uprising” (2018).

But “Rocky” is one of the most established pieces of IP in Hollywood, and sources say some within each organization are weighing whether the screenplay is a better fit for adapted, the category for scripts built on previously established material. Rocky Balboa, Adrian and Apollo Creed are preexisting characters and Farrelly’s film restages some of the 1976 movie’s best-known scenes, written half a century ago.

Amazon MGM and the Academy declined to comment. “I Play Rocky” expands nationwide Nov.

20, the same day WGA submissions close, but the guild won’t be weighing in. The film wasn’t produced under a WGA signatory agreement, so the guild can’t classify the screenplay or consider it for the WGA Awards, even though Gamble is a member.

That leaves the decision entirely to the Academy’s Writers Branch executive committee, which makes its own determinations and has broken with the WGA before. Elsewhere on the circuit, the question will carry less weight.

The Golden Globes put all screenplays in a single category, while BAFTA and the Critics Choice Awards, which split original and adapted, generally go with the category the studio submits. According to the Academy’s screenplay submission FAQ for the 99th Oscars , films don’t submit to a specific writing category.

Instead, the Writers Branch executive committee reviews each eligible title and generally defers to the WGA’s classification, ex

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