![]() ![]() He read the book again and found it moved faster as a result of the deletion. He found a chapter he didn’t like and deleted it. Morrell didn’t like it and so went back and started reading it again. Originally, First Blood was about 600 pages long. But in my heart, what I wanted to be was a novelist. thesis on Ernest Hemingway and was starting my doctoral dissertation on John Earth. Specializing in American literature, I'd finished my M.A. As Morrell noted, “I saw him as the system that had created Rambo.” You Only Got Half the Story The original cover for “First Blood.” David Morrell - Rambo 1 - First Blood Introduction In the summer of 1968, I was 25, a graduate student at Penn State University. Sam Troutman, played by Richard Crenna, the name Sam because he represents Uncle Sam. Sam Troutman, played by Richard Crenna in the movie, was inspired by an American icon. “It’s doubly ironic that the movie adaptation of First Blood was filmed in Canada’s British Columbia, even though my novel is set in Kentucky.” Uncle Sam Makes an Appearance The First Blood character of Col. ![]() ![]() “It’s ironic that a Canadian created one of the most recognizable American icons,” Morrell noted. Meanwhile, for the purposes of the film, the locale would be identified as the American Pacific Northwest. ![]() However, Carolco, the production company that made the First Blood movie, wanted to do the flick in British Columbia, partly for financial reasons. The setting he chose for the novel, First Blood, was a wilderness area in Kentucky called the Grand Canyon of the East. ![]()
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