Aside from Rocky Balboa, J. J. Rambo is the most famous role of Sylvester Stallone, and like the 1976 Rocky film "Rocky", the "Inaugural" Rambo film had to overcome so many obstacles, it is a miracle that it has ever been done first. The scenario for "The First Blood" in 1982 appears to be one of the most problematic scenarios in Hollywood's scenarios ( The learned Flop Johnon Travolta who haunted his writer for years). Not only did the script fully processed after coming to the board to act, Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas seems to have dropped out of the project due to creative differences with the same script.

"The First Blood" sees Vietnam's veterinarian on Stallone and former Green Barrett returns home to the United States that is not all happy to see. After he escaped from police custody and faces the wilderness in Washington, Rambo has been forced to take the police forces on his own, Washington, along with the state patrol and the National Guard, which certainly manages relative ease. While Brian Denihi's sheriff William Tale is focused on the demolition of the enemy soldier, Richard's Colonel Raised, Samuel R. Trautman, flies to offer his lead. Former Rambo commander even gives a classic warning to stick. When he said, "I didn't come here to save Rambo from you, I came here to save you from him."

It is this kind of thing that Stallone wanted more in the script. It was originally thought that "first blood" would destroy his careerAnd he sought significant repetitions that reduced his dialogue to a minimum and allowed other characters to talk about him, thereby turning Rambo into a kind of almighty mythical figure that others talk in tones. Obviously, no amount of changes in the script will fit Kirk Douglas, however, which was initially intended to deliver the Trautman line, but left the "first blood" for "artistic differences". In reality, he and director Ted Kotchef simply could not agree on Trautman's dialogue, and Douglas left despite the fact that he actually filmed some scenes.

They were not just problems with the script that kept the inaugural film Rambo. Shooting "First Blood" in Canada has led to a series of delays And according to AFIProducer Ed Carlin suffered a heart attack before being replaced by Buz Fateshans. Afi also cites editions in December 1981 by Hollywood Reporter and Daily Vari as a report that Kirk Douglas was originally thrown as Colonel Samuel R. At that time, the points of sale announced that these differences had to do with the script and next year, Newoux Times He claimed that Douglas initially had to play "an important role of Kimo as a coach of the Army of Mr Stallone", but that the actor "left after his little but glossy kimo was drastically cut". But in the years for the first time these reports have emerged, we have learned a little more about what prompted the legend of the screen to leave production.

In 2017, the director "First Blood" Ted Kotchef discussed Fun weekly During the time of Douglas of the film, she painted a pretty imperceptible image of the veteran starvet. According to Kotchef, Douglas flew to Vancouver and was there for the beginning of production, but, according to the director's estimate, a "weird man". As Kotchef remembered it, the actor "had a disturbing way to always talk about himself in a third person" and asked him to be allowed to say lines that were originally written about other characters, despite the director's attempts to change his mind. "He was a big starvet," Kotchef said. "We wanted to bend back. I sent him the script when he performed in a play in San Francisco. He loved the script and said he wanted to do it. Then, when he became there, he began to argue, before he started shooting." This line must change. " "I don't like this scene." "In the memory of Kotchef, Douglas's proposals for dialogue were" like B-Film, around 1940 ", all of which prompted the director to finally talk to the producers. "I told the producers," I can't please this man, "the director recalls. "" I have copied this damn scene four times trying to turn on the things he tells me, then when he sees it in front of the site, he doesn't like it. "

Finally, Kotchef was given the advantage of opposed to Douglas and asked the Starvala "Paths of Glory" if he would be ready to simply record the script they wrote. Unfortunately, the actor did not. "He said, 'Okay, Kirk Douglas is returning to Los Angeles." "

After Kirk Douglas left the "first blood", Richard Raised entered the Colonel Trautman. Although he was not as big a starvet as Douglas and he would never be like Perfectly thrown into the role Since Sylvester Stallone was in the lead, he did an admirable job and brought decades of experience in a role that requires a certain amount of authority and wisdom. Raised also played the role in the next two films, and was there for the transformation of Johnon J. Rambo from a persecuted veterinarian in Vietnam to an unstoppable killing machine. But it seems that he just approaches appearing in the first movie. In fact, each of the characters, including Rambo himself, only approaches appearing in one film Rambo as "First Blood" - what remains The best movie Rambo To this day it was supposed to be one and done.

In his interview with EV, Ted Kotchef explained how he predicted the film as a "suicide mission of Rambo", with a soldier struggling with his role in the Vietnam war, went to a last rampage that ended with his surrounded by police and army. "Colonel enters there to put out his misery," Kotchef explained from the original end. "(Rambo) says," I know you have a gun under your jacket there. Created me. Now, you have to kill me. ”And he pulls out the gun.

This was supposed to be the big finale of the film, and the crew even filmed this scene in front of Sylvester Stallone suggested that Rambo alive and they processed it to leave the hero unchanged. If Douglas stayed on the project, this would be his biggest moment in the whole movie, with Kotchef admitting it would be the one to hold the gun used by the hero to end his life. In the end, neither Douglas nor raised appeared in this scene, which was replaced by the version in which Rambo survives, and thus set it for more sequels (and one killing hook).