Sylvester Stallone | Memoir to be published in 2025

Sylvester Stallone in Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot
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Rocky creator Sylvester Stallone has penned a memoir called Steps, and itā€™ll be with us next year. More here:


According to Deadline, Sylvester Stallone (pictured, left) has just made a seven figure deal for the rights to Steps, a memoir that is described as ā€œdeeply personal” with a narrative shaped by teachable stories from Stallone’s life and career similar to the hybrid memoir/self-help scope of Matthew McConaughey’s 2020 bestseller Greenlights. The book’s title alludes to the iconic running scene outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art from Rocky.

Stallone has been especially introspective lately, with fly on the wall documentary The Family Stallone being a big hit for Paramount+, the streaming service which also hosts crime thriller Tulsa King, in which Stallone plays protagonist Dwight ā€˜The Generalā€™ Manfredi. Thom Zimmey directed the 2023 documentary Sly, which is available to watch on on Netflix.

UTA Publishing sold the book to William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, for a lower sum than other bidders because Stallone appreciated its enthusiasm for the project.

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Co-head of UTA Publishing Byrd Leavell said ā€œthe documentary came out, but even that only just grazed the surface. As much as Sly has been in the public eye for a very long time, he is also deeply private. This book will show that Sly is a man to whom nothing has come easily. He earned everything, he just knew to bet on himself because he believed in himself. And that’s the message within many of his movies: personal triumph overcoming adversity. This book is going to further tap into that and allow people to truly understand why they loved all of his movies so muchā€.

The journey of Rocky from script to screen is just as compelling an underdog story as the film itself, and since he won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 1979, Stallone has become an iconic figure in action cinema, from the testosterone fuelled machismo-fests like the Rambo franchise, Tango And Cash and the gloriously over the top Demolition Man, to the quieter, more reflective later films, from a career best performance in Cop Land and a triumphant return to his most famous character in Rocky Balboa.

Steps will be published in 2025, weā€™ll keep you updated as we hear more.

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