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Sylvester Stallone is a highly decorated actor who has delivered stellar performances throughout his career. One such iconic role that he has played is Rambo in the highly-successful ‘Rambo’ franchise. With five films in, Stallone truly blended in the role and one can argue that no other actor could have played the role as good as him. However, there was a time when the iconic character could have been killed off in the first film itself.
It is now revealed that ‘Rambo: First Blood’ was not supposed to be the beginning of a franchise and that John Rambo would have met his end in the first film itself. However, the original plan did not come to fruition and the character went on to live for decades and provide Stallone with several accolades.
The movie’s director, Ted Kotcheff, tells Yahoo about the plans. He explains, “I conceived of First Blood as Rambo’s suicide mission. The film was basically conceived as Rambo’s tragedy, that mirrored the tragedy of so many of the veterans that I talked to. I met guys that actually later on killed themselves. His tragedy mirrored their tragedy, and how they came to this sad conclusion to kill themselves.” On the other hand, Sylvester Stallone too was involved in this process. While he believed that Rambo should not be killed in the first movie itself, he once revealed that it was going to happen anyway.
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