Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren go head to head in Rocky IV – but there’s a bit of a story behind it, and the movie’s new cut. You want a Christmas movie? Look no further than Rocky IV, surely the raging highlight of the Rocky saga. Written and directed by Sylvester Stallone, and with montages ... Podcast | Rocky IV (1985) and Rocky IV: Rocky Vs Drago – The Ultimate Director’s Cut (2021)
Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren go head to head in Rocky IV – but there’s a bit of a story behind it, and the movie’s new cut.
You want a Christmas movie? Look no further than Rocky IV, surely the raging highlight of the Rocky saga. Written and directed by Sylvester Stallone, and with montages coming out of its armpits, the movie was not without a few challenges (and injuries.) Not least: how do you follow up the relentlessness of Mr T’s Clubber Lang from Rocky III?
The answer arrived in the sizeable shape of Dolph Lundgren, a one-time guest on this very show. But then, decades later, Sylvester Stallone decided that he had problems with Rocky IV. And a very different cut was born…
The stories are told in this very episode….
