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First Blood is a 1982 American action film directed by Ted Kotcheff and co-written by Sylvester Stallone, who stars as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. It also co-stars Richard Crenna as Rambo's mentor Sam Trautman and Brian Dennehy as Sheriff Will Teasle.
First Blood started production with Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas in the Trautman part.And the Spartacus star was a vocal proponent of having Rambo die in the film, which immediately put him at odds ...
Rambo is an American media franchise centered on a series of action films featuring John J. Rambo.The five films are First Blood (1982), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Rambo III (1988), Rambo (2008), and Rambo: Last Blood (2019).
Rambo: First Blood Part II opened in the United States on May 22, 1985, in a then-record 2,074 theaters, becoming the first film to be released to over 2,000 theaters in the United States, and was the number one film that weekend, grossing $20.2 million.
The film, First Blood, was a major success, earning $125 million on a $15 million budget, and spawning an entire Rambo franchise. David Morrell wrote the novelizations for Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo III and explained that he was bringing the character back because of the success of the movie.
James Cameron wrote the original screenplay, John Travolta played a "Star Wars" obsessed soldier and other things you didn't know about one of the defining action movies of the 1980s.
Rambo, starring Sylvester Stallone, commonly named after the main character . First Blood (1982), also known as Rambo: First Blood; Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), sequel to First Blood
The fifth installment of the "Rambo" franchise, "Rambo: Last Blood," will hit theaters on Sept. 20 -- 37 years after the series launched with "First Blood." The story centers on Sylvester Stallone ...