Sylvester Stallone has made a career out of rehashing a single beloved performance and storyline over and over and over and over and over again. And who can blame him? Wouldn’t you if you had the chance? Well, even the most die-hard “Rocky” fans, and I count myself among them, may be running out of good will for the Sly-man.

Why? Because he’s thinking about the unthinkable. Yes, that’s right, “Rocky 7.”

The following quote comes from Tele 5 in Germany:

“I know I’ll probably make a fool of myself if I make another ‘Rocky’ film after turning 60.”

“I also know there’s gonna be a lot of criticism. Even my wife says, ‘Don’t do it. You’re embarrassing the kids’. But I told her, ‘If I don’t try I’ll be a really unhappy man.’”

“You have to do it. Artists like me have to go through the dark over and over again.”

There you have it.  He has to do it because he’s an artist.  We may never see the end of the Italian Stallion — for better or worse.