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Originally Posted by barryem
Kirk Douglas, in his autobiography, talks a lot about Rambo. It seems the idea for that movie was his and he put up most of the money and he and Michael Douglas produced it together. But they disagreed about whether Rambo should die, as he did in the book. Kirk said it wasn't a good story if Rambo lived and Michael said it was a better story; they argued and Kirk got upset and dropped out of the production, leaving it to Michael. He said if they'd done it his way they would have lost $4 billion on the movie and it's sequels. 
Barry |
Neither Douglas had anything to do with the production of First Blood. Kirk Douglas was hired for the role of Col. Trautman. Douglas quit
the role over his belief that the movie should end like the book did, and Richard Crenna eventually got the part.