Shoulda been in the Expendables!

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Same exact thing I said on the Expendables message board. Of course, however, you probably haven't read it, being that IMDB keeps deleting the post...

weird... did weathers piss off schwarzenegger and stallone?

I know he refused to let Stallone use archival footage of him from Rocky and Rocky II in Rocky Balboa so maybe Stallone was pissed about that. They ended up having to use a body double to recreate the flashback scenes in Rocky Balboa.

Word has it that he wanted to be IN the movie. Not just flashbacks, but Apollo Creed alive and well in Rocky Balboa. How that would possible after he got his ass handed to him and killed by He-Man, I'll never know.
But, apparently he was butt-hurt that Stallone refused, so he didn't let Sly use the footage. Or, in simple terms, he didn't get his way so he took his ball and went home.

There was this fire, and I had to save it from a baby...

yeh he fell out with Sly end of

No Justice Just Us

I don't understand how Carl Weathers would have any ownership of the Apollo Creed character. Is there an official story behind your claim? It just doesn't add up from a legal standpoint.



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You're correct Naughty-God, but so is the poster before you. Rumor has it Weathers did not allow footage of himself to be used in 'Rocky Balboa'. However, there was no body double or anything like that. They never recreated any scenes involving Apollo Creed, so that poster was wrong about that. There was a deleted scene in which Paulie is sleeping and he has a picture by his bed of Rocky and Apollo. Paulie pasted his face on Rocky's and Apollo's face is blurred out. I'm guessing Sly did that on purpose and then used the entire scene as a deleted scene for the DVD. Weathers should have had zero say on what archived footage was used involving the Apollo character, as the character should have been property of MGM and not Weathers himself. So basically, he should have had zero say on whether or not the character's likeness was used in archive footage. If they would have taped new footage (maybe flashback footage since Creed was dead), he may have had a case. In 'Back To The Future Part II,' Crispin Glover was not brought back to play George McFly. They reshot some scenes that originally included him and since the new actor was playing a part exactly mimicking Glover's previous scenes, Glover won a million dollars. BS to me, but that is what happened. Maybe Stallone did not want to pay out a similar price.