Rocky II - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Rocky II or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Rocky II

[liam]

During the main fight, Apollo Creed is wearing the exact same red and white-trimmed shorts as Rocky was wearing on the overhead banner with his picture during the first fight in Rocky (1976).

[michele]

Butkus Stallone is wearing a shirt that says "Eagles" and the number 51. In 1976, when this film is set, no player on the Philadelphia Eagles wore number 51. In 1979, when this film was released, linebacker Reggie Wilkes wore #51.

[lynn]

Originally, Adrian was supposed to be at the big fight. However, because Talia Shire was working on another movie at the time, the storyline was changed to having her stay home and watch the fight on television. The scenes of her watching the boxing match on television were shot, and then edited into the movie several months after filming once the fight scenes had finished.

[tom]

During the ambulance drive to the hospital during the opening credits, the movie poster from Paradise Alley (1978) also written, directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone can be seen on the back of a bus.

[toni]

On Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001), Sylvester Stallone was asked to give each Rocky a score out of 10. He gave this one a 7 1/2.

[brent]

Part of a cycle of ring fighter movies, mostly boxing, some wrestling, initiated by the box-office and critical success of the Academy Award Best Picture winning boxing movie Rocky (1976). The films include Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky IV (1985), Tough Enough (1983), Title Shot (1979), Raging Bull (1980), The Champ (1979), Matilda (1978), The Main Event (1979), The Prize Fighter (1979), The Greatest (1977), Body and Soul (1981), Paradise Alley (1978), ...All the Marbles (1981), The One and Only (1978), Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and Any Which Way You Can (1980).

[sandra]

Actor Shaka Cumbuka, who is credited as "Cornerman" for this film, actually had a name in the Rocky: Legends video game. He was called Randy Tate, and was also a playable character.

[ruby]

Sylvester Stallone began working on the Rocky III (1982) script immediately after completing Rocky II, with the intention of the series being a trilogy. Originally, he had no plans to make a fourth film.

[riley]

In one version of the screenplay, there is a flashback scene that shows Rocky first meeting Mickey and we learn Rocky's real first name: Robert.

[ava]

After the bell rings, signaling the end of the second round, Sylvester Stallone and Carl Weathers are seen pushing, shoving, taunting, and ultimately being pulled apart by their respective cornermen. They continue to taunt each other before returning to their corners. Stallone revealed later they were actually angry with each other and were not acting at that point, several blows that were supposed to miss him landed and the carefully choreographed fight, which they spent months meticulously planning out, went off-track during that scene, but he liked the reaction the scene produced. He decided to leave their momentary breaking of character in and the viewing audience never realized the two actors were in reality quite livid with each other.

[sandra]

800 local schoolchildren were used as extras for the scene depicting Rocky's run through Philadelphia.

[wallace]

The book that Rocky reads to Adrian is Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County" which was originally published in 1940.

[caroline]

Chuck Wepner, the real-life inspiration for Rocky (1976), was offered the part of a trainer named "Chink Weber". According to Wepner, he read for Sylvester Stallone but did very poorly. The character was deleted from the script. The name "Chink Weber" ended up being used for Sonny Landham's character in Stallone's movie Lock Up (1989).

[edgar]

In the hospital scenes, Adrian's room number is 669. The number 669 is considered as an "Angel Number." This sequence in the movie shows a lot of Christian crosses and instances where Rocky is sitting in the chapel.

[toni]

The film takes place in 1976.

[scarlett]

Sylvester Stallone's infant son Seargeoh Stallone played the newborn Robert Balboa, Jr. The role would later be played by his elder brother Sage Stallone in Rocky V (1990).

[frances]

Before the fight begins, one of the announcers states that Apollo wants to draw "First Blood", which of course would be one of Stallone's next movies.

[riley]

In the first "Rocky" movie, the fight poster has Balboa's shorts in the wrong color. His shorts are white with a red stripe while the poster shows them as being red with a white stripe. Balboa even mentions this error to the fight promoter in that movie. In this movie, the fight poster yet again has Balboa's shorts in the wrong color. The poster shoes them as being white with a red stripe but Balboa wears black shorts with a yellow stripe.

[carl]

As he had done with the original, Sylvester Stallone incorporated biographical elements from his own life into Rocky's story for this film. In particular, Stallone used as a central plot point the concept that yesterday's heroes are quickly forgotten. In the film, this manifests itself in terms of people quickly forgetting about Rocky's exploits in the title fight. In reality, Stallone experienced a similar sense of being quickly forgotten after his two post-Rocky (1976) movies, Paradise Alley (1978) (Stallone's directorial debut) and F.I.S.T. (1978), both of which underperformed at the box office.