Sylvester Stallone is hard at work on his memoir, due out next year, revealing some details of the book to the website You Em Z, broadcast BTA.
Sly says his novel will chronicle his journey from a man most likely to end up in the electric chair to a movie icon. Part of the book is devoted to how a trip to New York during the Woodstock Festival in 1969 made him realize that he had to make his mark on the world and it changed his life completely.
The memoir is due out next year, and Stallone calls it a “must read... especially for fans of “Rambo” and “Rocky“.
At 78 years old, Sly continues to perform and viewers can currently see him on the hit series “The King of Tulsa” in the role of a New York gangster with an enviable sense of humor, who is banished to Oklahoma and now enters and exits prison, adds BTA.
Earlier this year, it was revealed that William Morrow, a division of Harpers, had acquired the rights to Stallone's memoir, with the working title The Steps.
The book has been described as “deeply personal” with a narrative shaped by instructive stories from Stallone's life and career. The book's title jokingly takes its name from the pivotal scene of running up the stairs outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the “Rocky” of Stallone.
“The title was entirely Sly”, he told the site “Deadline” Byrd Leavell of the publisher, adding: “He came to us with this thought about the dual meaning of Philadelphia to him and running up the stairs. But he also wanted to write a book that would help people.“
„This book will show that Sly is a man for whom nothing was easy. He deserved everything," Leavell said, adding: "He just knew how to bet on himself because he believed in himself. And that's the message in many of his films: personal triumph that overcomes adversity. This book will touch on that even more and allow people to really understand why they love all his movies so much.“