In a clip From “Behind The Mask: The Batman Dead End Story”, Sandy Collora explains how he met Sylvester Stallone after his lawyer – whose partner played golf with the star “Rocky” – installed them. Collora, who admits to being a huge fan rocky “”, remembers called Stallone and organized a meeting at the actor’s house. When he arrived, he was surprised to find that the legendary star was not only interested in hearing what he worked on, but was also wishing to play in his unofficial project in Batman. As Collora said:

“He is like […] “What are you working on now?” And I said: “Well, strangely, it’s a little Batman film that I put in place.” He put his drink, he said, ‘Batman? Really? […] How much are you sure that the studios will not come after you? I said, “Well, to be honest with you, I am sticky, I don’t know.” And there is just a long break and he says: “Okay, I’m in it.” “”

Collora continued by explaining how, at first, he did not know what Stallone meant by this comment, recalling how he expected the actor to finance the project. “At that time, I didn’t know what he meant,” said Collora. “But what he told me is that he wanted to play Batman.”

At this stage of his career, Stallone was trying to have her revisit “Rocky” revisited, which was finally “Rocky Balboa” in 2006. But the actor largely explained how it took about seven years to take off this project and relaunch his career. As such, it seems that it was ready to appear in a fans film during the period when it looked like “Rocky Balboa” could never happen on the screen. In a separate clip According to the documentary, Collora even admits that Sly was “in this kind of funk, before reappearing like the Phoenix that he did so wonderfully” and that it was “the only reason for which someone like it would take a meeting with someone like me”.

Stallone obviously did not end up playing in the short film and his reason to withdraw is not entirely clear, but according to a Msn The article, a user of Threads named Coty Ellis, said that the actor had left the project due to the pressure of his agent, who felt “deadly” in a way of a dead end for his client’s career. In addition, Mark Hamill was apparently only if Stallone was confirmed, and after the latter left the project, Hamill too.

Apart from its role of Judge Dredd in the most ridiculous science fiction film to predict our terrifying presentStallone was finally going to play Stakar Ogord alias Starhawk in Marvel Cinematic Universe films “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” (2017) and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” (2023). He also expressed King Shark in James Gunn’s effort in 2021 “The Suicide Squad”. It’s not quite Batman, but I think it’s probably for the better.