Shaan Puri

Turns it down.

He ends up taking, I think, 25 grand or some ridiculously low amount of money for the script, but he gets to be Rocky.

And he's struggling to make ends meet.

He literally, he's like eating like canned beans.

He ends up selling his dog because he can't feed his dog.

So he's like, his dog was his only companion in the world.

He goes, he sells it to a guy and gets like a couple hundred bucks for his dog.

And then it's just like, fuck, he's just literally rock bottom.

To film Rocky, he basically films the whole movie on like a million dollar budget, handheld camera, no permits, sneaking into things.

They film Rocky that way.

Okay, Rocky becomes this huge hit.

He basically gets this money.

He goes and he, first thing he does, he goes back and buys back his dog.

The guy doesn't want to sell it to him.

He's like, I love this dog.

And he ends up paying 25 grand to get his dog back.

And then that was basically the start of Sylvester Stallone's story was this like three day bender he had to write the story of Rocky.

How insane is that?

And that was part of the deal.

It was like, I'll give you 25 grand and you get to be a cameo in the movie.