What's behind the huge hit "Cliffhanger" that brought Stallone back to life?

The road to completion was full of twists and turns

He also mentioned whether it was true that director Renny Harlin's brutal scene was in Cliffhanger, and that Stallone, who hated it, paid his own money to have it reshot. "That's true. There was a scene in the preview of the first issue that Carolco executives and executives from major theater chains saw and were furious. It was a brutal scene in which terrorists shot a rabbit to death. There were many overwhelmingly negative opinions, asking why it was necessary to show it in the main story even though there was no need for him to be killed.

I had heard that Lenny liked horror movies, so although it was in bad taste, I didn't really care... Indeed, when I watched the finished version, I felt it was unnecessary, so I decided to discuss it with Mario and Lenny and exchange ideas about whether it would be possible to reshoot it. However, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing I could do because I didn't have the budget, so I asked them to use $100,000 of my salary to do the reshoots and remove the rabbit slaughter scene, so I completed the project. , that's The Truth.''

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We also hear about the scenes that were cut from ``Cliffhanger'' and the twists and turns it took to decide on the role of the terrorist boss. ``Gave, the character I played, had many detailed discussions with Lenny, and we objected to using a gun in the movie because he is not John Rambo.However, we also filmed the scene where Gave snatches a gun from a terrorist. , I had filmed it for a while, but I was against the idea of ​​mountain rescuers using firearms, and I had written the script myself, so I thought it would be better to fight unarmed, and give the audience the character of Gave. I thought it would convey that he is not a belligerent person.

In the scene where two boys who were close to Gave are attacked by terrorists, one of them is killed, and we considered cutting it out depending on whether it was necessary or not, but we decided that it would be better to emphasize the brutality of the terrorists. I did not delete it at my discretion. Audience members said that the scene where a child is killed was unpleasant.

It was difficult until John Lithgow was chosen to play the terrorist boss. Initially, David Bowie was planned, and Lenny was negotiating directly with him, but he was reluctant to film on a snow-covered mountaintop, and negotiations did not go well. The Day After the casting director somehow managed to woo Christopher Walken, and although there was no problem in pre-production, Walken decided to leave the film right before filming for reasons unknown.

Lennie then noticed his villainous roles in Ricochet (1991) and Raising Kane (1992) and offered the role to John Lithgow. It was an unreasonable schedule, but I'm just grateful that he appeared on the show. ”

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