#COMMANDO ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER 1985 MOVIE#

That led to writing in the use of a steam pipe to kill Bennett, which resulted in the famous one-liner with Schwarzenegger telling him to 'let off some steam, Bennett.' Shooting on location would have been too expensive, resulting in the change to the climactic scene taking place in a basement, which was shot in an actual basement at Fox. Hitting theaters in 1985, the original Commando came fresh off of Arnold Schwarzenegger's star-making turn in James Cameron's The Terminator and saw the action icon portray a retired United States Army Special Forces Colonel who races against time to rescue his.

#COMMANDO ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER 1985 MOVIE#

de Souza addresses the chances of a potential Commando movie remake. Originally, the fight was to take place on a private island off the coast of California with fewer security men getting killed. Over a decade after the last effort fell apart, writer Steven E. So they burned up the budget and then said we don’t have the money to film what you wrote.'Ĭommando ends with Schwarzenegger's John Matrix infiltrating the villain's compound and ultimately killing the antagonist Bennett (Vernon Wells) in a basement. The random shooting of hundreds of guys was not in the script. A perfect engine of meaningless destruction, 'Commando' followed Arnold Schwarzeneggers breakthrough hit 'The Terminator' by less than a year. He continued, 'So what happened was, Mark went overbudget putting in this giant scene where this private army gets wiped out.

'Mark L Lester (the director of Commando) had seen a sneak peek of Rambo II and he said Stallone kills a million guys so we have to kill more guys.' 'I blame Sylvester Stallone for screwing up the ending,' the writer says. Commando is a 1985 American action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as John Matrix, a former Special Forces commander who is forced to work for a deposed South American dictator or his daughter Jenny (Alyssa Milano) will be killed.The film was produced by Joel Silver and was directed by Mark L. Ultimately, that led to de Souza's original ending getting scrapped. Directed by Mark Lester (Class Of 1984, Firestarter), 1985’s Commando. More deaths were written in, but that also resulted in the budget growing, and that posed a big problem when the project wound up going overbudget. Commando is an Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie always worth revisiting. That led to the demand to write in more bad guys getting killed in an attempt to keep up with John Rambo's on-screen violence. Lester was concerned that the body count for Commando was too low compared to Rambo II. And Rambo took himself very seriously.'ĭe Souza then remembers how director Mark L. '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. 'I concurred with Arnold ,' de Souza says. 8,995 1 h X-Ray R Suspense Adventure Gritty Tense Available to rent or buy Rent HD 3.99 Buy HD 14.99 More purchase options Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.

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