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Stallone Drew First Blood On Set of New Rambo

Rambo’s ready to cut / Photo: IESB.net

“This is full scale genocide” is what Sylvester Stallone told the world’s press following his six months shooting the latest Rambo flick in Thailand, saying he was horrified witnessing the violence of neighboring nation Burma’s brutal regime. But it seems Sly might have been influenced by the dictatorial leanings of the Burmese military dictatorship. While directors traditionally don’t take kindly to challenges to their vision, Sly took things to cinematic extremes. “Anyone who gave him trouble on the set? Sly had them killed.” On film that is; that’s what Hollywood stunt man James Logan, who visited Thailand while his buddy worked on the Rambo shoot ‘em up, told a Complex.com correspondent. After one ambitious actor, unhappy with his sparse role rewrote his lines slipping the redacted script under Stallone’s hotel room door, Sly didn’t get mad, he got even. “The next day he made one change; that character got shot.” Sly seems to have been surrounded by a cast of strivers. One extra who’s role as a mercenary consisted of a silent march through the jungle convinced the sound department to outfit him with a mic. “He delivered this rambling monologue about his life back in Colorado, when he had no lines at all” says Logan. When Sly saw the rushes, he was furious. “Boom! That guy got blown up instead.”