Armenian producer offers the invincible “Rocky” to fulfill his dream and make a film about the defense of Musa Dagh

In his article on GV Wire, Sevag Tateosian, host and producer of San Joaquin Spotlight, told about how Sylvester Stallone backed away from fulfilling his dream project.

“As a child in the 1980s, I grew up watching Sylvester Stallone’s “Rocky” movies. It felt like Stallone and his movie wife Adrian, played by Talia Shire, were a part of our family. Each punch Rocky took felt real and the series always got me teared up. The story of Rocky fits perfectly with the American dream and is similar to the stories of a lot of people trying to make it in this country. Rocky seemed like he was ready for any challenge.

But, as courageous as Rocky was, there is one fight that Stallone surprisingly backed away from in real life. The story goes that in 2006, while promoting “Rocky Balboa,” another beautiful and touching Rocky film and presumed finale in the series, Stallone revealed to the Denver Post that he wanted to create an epic. The book that intrigued him was Franz Werfel’s 1933 novel The 40 Days of Musa Dagh,” Tateosian writes in the article.

According to him, back in 2006, the invincible “Rocky” succumbed to Turkish pressure. However, now it is time to fulfill his dream project and create this “epic” story.

“I’ll start the chants now: ‘Rocky…Rocky…Rocky!’ Who is joining me?” the article says.