Ryan Gosling Shares What Movie He Would Show Rocky the Alien & His Favorite Stallone Film

TL;DR

Ryan Gosling would show an alien all Rocky and Creed films, and picks the original Rocky as his favorite for its real-life Stallone backstory.

Key Points

• 1.Gosling would show an alien the entire Rocky and Creed franchise. Because the film he was promoting was made with MGM, which owns all Rocky/Creed rights, and his alien character was coincidentally named Rocky, he screened every film in the series.
• 2.The original Rocky is Gosling's favorite due to Stallone's real-life sacrifice. Stallone sold his dog to survive while writing the script, then bought it back after selling the screenplay — and that same dog appeared in the movie, creating a deep meta-link between Stallone's life and Rocky's story.
• 3.Gosling also praises Rocky IV and Over the Top as guilty pleasures. He describes Rocky IV as 'the most luxurious chocolate cake of patriotism and masculinity,' and says Over the Top — Stallone's trucker arm-wrestling film — still makes him emotional for its father-son dynamic.
• 4.Gosling revealed he just finished filming a Star Wars movie directed by Shawn Levy. The film is set in its own original timeline with all-new characters, unconnected to existing Star Wars films, and is expected to release next year; Levy previously directed Deadpool & Wolverine and Stranger Things.