Why Sylvester Stallone Tried to Destroy ‘First Blood’
Sylvester Stallone said that the first time he watched a rough cut of First Blood, he and his manager almost threw up in the back of an alley, then tried to figure out how to buy the movie back so they could destroy the negative. Based on the 1972 novel by David Morrell, First Blood tells the story of John Rambo, a war veteran who is forced to fight for his life after being abused by a small-town police force. “It was so bad,” Stallone told Howard Stern about the initial First Blood edit. “We tried to buy it back and burn the negative. Originally it was three hours long, I stayed an hour and a...