Sylvester Stallone is teaming up with Ukranian heavyweight boxers, Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, to produce a stage musical based on Rocky. Is it worth making a joke about this? I mean my feeling is that the ridiculousness of the situation sort of speaks for itself, but let me know if you need more.

Are they going to be singing Eye of the Tiger now?

Stallone says that the musical adaptation of a film about dudes punching each other stupid would focus on Rocky’s romantic side:

At the end of the day, Rocky is a love story and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.
To see this story coming to life on a musical stage makes me proud. And it would make Rocky proud.

Rocky: The Musical will have its world debut, in German, in Hamburg November 2012. Because this is the sort of thing that only makes sense if it’s also in German.

[Source: Filmdrunk]