Dhaka, Nov. 6 -- A new film detailing Sylvester Stallone's meteoric rise from a broke, struggling actor to a global Hollywood sensation is set to hit cinemas, reports the BBC.

Titled "I Play Rocky" and directed by "Green Book" filmmaker Peter Farrelly, the biopic stars relative newcomer Anthony Ippolito as a young Stallone navigating severe poverty on the streets of New York.

Born with partial facial paralysis and a speech impediment, Stallone faced constant rejection from casting directors who repeatedly typecast him as a background thug.

Frustrated by the lack of opportunities, he turned to screenwriting and drafted the entire script for Rocky in just three days.

Despite being so impoverished that he temporarily sold his dog to cove...