![]() Sly saw John Rambo as a victim of circumstances, and he doesn’t kill a single person. In the original drafts, John Rambo goes on a rampage, killing a number of people. ![]() We’re talking Clint Eastwood, John Travolta, Nick Nolte, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and veterans Steve McQueen and Paul Newman all passing it up.Įventually Sly Stallone got involved, and in order to keep him happy and interested, Director Ted Kotcheff (Wake in Fright, Weekend At Bernie’s) allowed Sly to do a rewrite. Some twenty-six adaptations were made, with nearly every leading man in Hollywood taking a pass on the role. FIRST BLOOD introduced the world to John Rambo, the troubled and misunderstood Vietnam veteran who just wants to be left alone.īased on the 1972 novel of the same name by David Morrell, about a Vietnam vet killing machine, it was one of the most optioned scripts in Hollywood. It was Sylvester Stallone’s first non-Rocky movie which didn’t bomb in fact, it was one of the biggest films of the insanely stacked year that was 1982. First Blood 40th Anniversary! One Show Only! ![]()
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