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Director discusses feud with Stallone


Renny Harlin talks about how he fell out with Stallone, great interview…

https://youtu.be/S3sjsPsbD3Y?si=rqpmDDYxFGTuoho_&t=6628

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Surprised to read that. I always heard they got on well with each other in this film, so much so that they made another film called "Driven" in the 2000s (which sucked).

Stallone's career took a hit after the 80s ended. He went from being one of the biggest movie stars to being in a lot of turkeys. To get to the top again, he needed to do films like Cliffhanger where he'd work with a new director (he usually directed his own films or "ghost" directed them ie hired a yes man and told him what to do).

If they fell out, it's likely because Stallone was used to calling the shots and thought he could do better than Harlin. Harlin is a very talented director but his films can be a bit too cold at times.

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All of this is addressed in the interview, did you watch it?

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Kinda but I've been a stallone fan since birth so I know all this stuff but thanks for posting it anyway, harlin's impressions of sly are gold.

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You’re an idiot. You’re responding when you didn’t even read or watch the interview. He clearly addressed that they got on fine during the film. It years later after Driven was made that it went south

Another idiot who bases their opinion on just reading headlines or captions

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wow , you called that guy an idiot twice in such a short space in your unnecessarily angry reply / insult.

I thought he contributed a lot of interesting and relevent information to the discussion regardless of wether or not he followed the link.

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Totally agree, people are so f*****g rude these days, ffs!

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And you’re an idiot thinking that someone could contribute points on a subject without even reading the subject matter.

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He's still contributed far more worthwhile interesting material to the discussion than you , who has merely called two people idiot in two posts, which is the least original comment in the history of the internet

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At least he’s contributing and making valid points, your tone-policing is worthless and just degrades the whole thread.

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