It's real...

...and it's coming.

No Talia Shire?

Already we have a trailer for Rocky VI.

6 Rocks from the Sun

At long last, Rocky VI has been announced. From The Guardian:

This time the story will open with Rocky Balboa in the middle of a lonely retirement. In an effort to cheer himself up and keep his hand in, he embarks on a few low-key bouts but becomes a media sensation when he's approached to go head to head with reigning heavyweight champ Mason "The Line" Dixon.

But Sly, didn't you read any of the treatments I sent you? What happened to the Balboa/Creed homosexual subplot (see picture below)? And what about the idea of Clubber Lang turning up as a top Al Qaida terrorist, so George Bush recruits Rocky (under duress - they are holding Adrian and Rocky Jnr hostage) to defeat him? It turns out that Lang's right-hand man is Ivan Drago, so Rocky calls up Tommy Gunn to make up the numbers, and it all builds to a huge four-headed slugfest in the Afghan desert. What about all that? As I told you, I ask for no payment. Just give me a credit.

Great Novelisations (no. 1 in a series)

I've got to get this book...

"...No Mickey funeral scene, no faltering self-confidence, no "Eye of the Tiger," no getting back to basics, no final conflict between good and evil, just one fight that's over in two pages! It's terribly distressing to see truly great works of art butchered in this manner. Even the cover features Clubber Lang (played in the movie by the great character actor of the 80's, Mr. T) instead of Rocky himself. Are they telling us that Clubber Lang is the hero here?"