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Abandoned projects; Carolco financing; physical-condition list; Dolomites; plane stunt; glove; hand injury
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- Bartholomew versus Neff reportedly paired Stallone and John Candy in a John Hughes feuding-neighbors comedy before collapsing.
- Isobar reportedly involved a genetically created monster escaping on a train, with Stallone and Kim Basinger attached and successive departures by Ridley Scott and Emmerich.
- Gale Force reportedly cast Stallone as an ex-Navy SEAL fighting pirates during a hurricane.
- Harlin reportedly received three million dollars; four million went to writers, including a rejected erotic-thriller rewrite by Joe Eszterhas.
- Cliffhanger reportedly followed the cancellation of Gale Force, with Harlin retaining his fee.
- The rabbit’s survival reportedly required a100,000-dollar Stallone-funded reshoot after test screenings. The claim a rabbit was actually killed on camera is unverified speaker assertion.
- The absurd forty-foot cliff jump was reportedly removed after trailer audiences laughed at it.
- Carolco reportedly surrendered much of the revenue rights to finance production, stopped twice for inability to pay crews, overspent by 40 million and took a 2 million salary sacrifice from Stallone, leaving little benefit from the hit.
- Stallone's reported top-three physical-condition films are RockyIV, Cliffhanger and RamboIII; RamboII is a wrong guess and Cobra misses the list.
- Mountain filming reportedly used the Italian Dolomites near Cortina d’Ampezzo.
- Simon Crane’s million-dollar plane crossing is reported as a record aerial stunt; failure to enter the second plane required an edited close-up.
- The opening glove reportedly would not slip despite oversizing and Vaseline because Stallone held too tightly, eventually yielding the desired take.
- Stallone reportedly injured his hand on a soundstage cliff but described it publicly as a climbing injury.