Category: First Blood

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week…

Craig / / 2017, Celebs, Escape Plan 2, Expendables 4, First Blood, Frank Stallone, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Training


Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week…

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week…

Craig / / 2016, Cobra, Family, First Blood, John Rambo


Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week…

Ted Kotcheff Praises Sly at Recent “First Blood” Screening

Craig / / 2016, Celebs, First Blood

 Ted Kotcheff and David Frison

Recently SZoner, David (Soop) Frison was able to attend a screening of FIRST BLOOD which was the last of three Ted Kotcheff movies presented between June 23rd and 25th at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, CA.

The opportunity to participate in a Q&A with the director was offered after the screening.

Among other anecdotes, Mr. Kotcheff had this nice thing to say about his main actor:

“As a filmmaker, Sylvester (as he likes to call him) has this thing on me that I don’t have; he really knows what the audience likes and dislikes. And so, the two major times Sylvester contributed to the success of this film, was when he said that Rambo should not kill any of the Reserve Army Men at the stand off by the cave (…) and, after all Rambo has been through during that horrible day (…), he should not die at the sheriff’s station.”

 

Famous artist Bill Pruitt also showed up and made Ted Kotcheff the gift of one of his paintings.

 

 

David (Soop) Frison
Actor and twice Sylvester Stallone’s movie poster body double.

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Thanks to Soop for the update! – Craig

Two Stallone Characters That Were Supposed to Die But Didn’t

Craig / / 2015, First Blood, Rocky V

Recently Mental_Floss  posted 14 Movie Characters Who Were Supposed to Die But Didn’t by Rudie Obias.

Guess who had two characters in the top 14?  That’s right, Sly and here’s what was said:

4. Rambo // First Blood

In the novel First Blood, Rambo commits suicide at the end of a long battle with Sheriff Teasle. Rambo’s death scene was filmed, but Sylvester Stallone saw the potential for a new franchise, so Rambo lived to fight another day in the final version.

 

5. Rocky Balboa // Rocky V

Rocky V was supposed to be the last movie in the franchise, and Stallone ended its screenplay accordingly, with Rocky Balboa dying at the hands of rival Tommy Gunn during a street fight. But during production, director John Avildsen got a call from executives telling him, “‘Oh by the way, Rocky’s not going to die,'” he recalled in 2014. “‘Batman doesn’t die, Superman, James Bond, these people don’t die.” Stallone wrote a new ending featuring Rocky and his son Robert Balboa jogging to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and looking over the city’s skyline.