“I think there’s a great opportunity to do a prequel starting at 16 years old,” Stallone reveals.
“You meet Rocky’s father, his horrible mother, his half-brother. Because [the studio] took it out, a lot of people don’t realize that [the loan shark] Gazzo (Joe Spinell) was his half-brother, so they were raised together.

And then you see Adrian (Talia Shire). He’s known Adrian and Paulie (Burt Young) for 10 years, and Mickey (Burgess Meredith) is 31 and a loser. So that would be great, because, again, for 16 and 17-year-olds, it’d be a great representation of their generation.”