“Blame Sylvester Stallone”: Commando Screenwriter Cites Schwarzenegger Stallone Rivalry For One Major Movie Change

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.de Souza talked at length about how the desire to match the violence in Rambo II led to changes in the Commando script, and explained how these changes, through the domino effect, caused the movie’s ending to be changed. Check out what de Souza had to say in the space below:”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.