To get material for this movie, Brock Yates ran the final Cannonball in 1979. The move cost him his editorial position at Car and Driver Magazine, which has since been reinstated.
F.I.S.T. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Norman Jewison said of Sylvester Stallone for this film's publicity: "Stallone isn't just a movie star to those fans. He has become a cult hero to them. They identify with him as they do with rock stars, like Elvis Presley or The Beatles. They're more reserved with other film stars, who seem less approachable. They think of Stallone, like Rocky, as part of them. He's very open."
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Debut produced screenplay of Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas.
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Sylvester Stallone was touted to possibly receive a Best Actor Academy Award nomination for his dramatic performance in this film but this did not happen.
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The film's title acronym "F.I.S.T." stands for any of the following wordings: "Federated Inter-State Truckers"; "Federation of Interstate Truckers"; "Federated Interstate Truckers"; and "Federation of Inter-State Truckers". Sylvester Stallone's Johnny Kovak character says of the acronym during the early days of the truckers' federation: "It ain't a bunch of letters like any other union. It says 'Fist'. One fist - - that's what we are!"
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The film's director Norman Jewison once said of this movie in an interview: "Somehow I failed. Maybe it was the casting".
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First movie that Sylvester Stallone starred in after his box-office hit, and multi Academy Award winning boxing movie Rocky (1976).
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The movie was scored by Bill Conti who had composed the Oscar winning music score for Sylvester Stallone's Rocky (1976). F.I.S.T. (1978) is one of around ten collaborations of the pair and one of just a handful of non-Rocky franchise films scored by Conti and starring Stallone with the others being Lock Up (1989), Victory (1981), and Paradise Alley (1978).
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Norman Jewison directed Rocky (1976) star Sylvester Stallone in this picture. Stallone has played the legendary boxer character Rocky Balboa seven times in movies. Jewison directed his movie about a boxer starring Denzel Washington called The Hurricane (1999) twenty-one years after F.I.S.T. (1978).
F.I.S.T. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
F.I.S.T. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
F.I.S.T. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
F.I.S.T. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
F.I.S.T. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
F.I.S.T. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
F.I.S.T. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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