Sylvester Stallone attacks ‘parasitical’ Rocky producer over rights to franchise

The star and writer of the boxing movie franchise also describes the veteran producer, Irwin Winkler, as ‘untalented’ Sylvester Stallone has launched a verbal attack on veteran producer Irwin Winkler over the Rocky movies, describing Winkler as “untalented and parasitical” for not assigning him any portion of the rights to the boxing-movie series for which Stallone created the original characters and wrote and directed numerous entries. Stallone posted an offensive caricature of Winkler on social media, writing: “I really would like have at least a little WHAT’s LEFT of my RIGHTS back – I believe That would be a FAIR gesture from this 93 year old gentleman.” Continue reading...