Commando writer Steven E. de Souza explains how Arnold Schwarzenegger's rivalry with Sylvester Stallone led to the movie being changed.
The writer of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Commando explains how the star’s rivalry with Sylvester Stallone led to the action movie being changed. Coming off Conan the Barbarian and The Terminator, Schwarzenegger had his first chance to star as a classic militaristic action hero in the 1985 movie Commando. In that very same year, Schwarzenegger’s chief action movie rival Stallone released his own gung-ho shoot-em-up in Rambo: First Blood Part II, the sequel to his 1982 hit First Blood.
"I concurred with Arnold [that the film would be a success]. At the time it was Rambo versus Commando and those two had a rivalry for a long time, but Arnold predicted that people would still be talking about this film because it did not take itself seriously and was self-aware. And Rambo took himself very seriously. … I blame Sylvester Stallone for screwing up the [Commando] ending. [Commando director] Mark L.
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