Sylvester Stallone is escalating his battle with “Rocky” producer Irwin Winkler over ownership of the characters he created by attacking the upcoming spin-off sequel “Drago”.
TheWrap recently broke the news that MGM was developing the project, which will star Dolph Lundgren reprising his “Rocky IV” role as Russian boxer Ivan Drago.
Not only will Stallone have no association with the project, he first learned it was happening by reading The Wrap‘s report.
Stallone has been embroiled in a dispute with Winkler and his grown children over ownership of the “Rocky” franchise. READ MORE: Sylvester Stallone Was ‘Flown Into Intensive Care’ After Getting ‘Pulverized’ By Dolph Lundgren In ‘Rocky IV’ “Another Heartbreaker… Just found this out…ONCE AGAIN , this PATHETIC 94 year old PRODUCER and HIS MORONIC USELESS VULTURE CHILDREN, Charles And David , are once again picking clean THE BONES of another wonderful character I created without even telling me,” wrote Stallone in an Instagram post responding to the news that “Drago” had been greenlit. “I APOLOGIZE to the FANS , I never wanted ROCKY characters to be exploited by these parasites,” Stallone continued. (According to The Hollywood Reporter, Stallone apparently altered the Instagram post by deleting the sentence, “Seriously, how do you weasels look in mirror???” In addition, the original post’s apology to fans read, “I am sorry to the FANS , I APOLOGIZE to the FANS I never wanted ROCKY to be exploited FOR THIS GREED.”) READ MORE: Sylvester Stallone Stars In Action-Packed Trailer For Superhero Movie ‘Samaritan’ Stallone concluded his post insisting there was no bad blood between him and Lundgren, who also co-stars with him in the “Expendables” franchise. “By the way, I
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