No longer an anti-war protest movie, Rambo: First Blood Part II was a gory, jingoistic fantasy wherein Rambo returned to Vietnam, saved secret POWs whose existence the government had covered up, and single-handedly wiped out the Russian and Vietnamese armies. However, after the sleeper hit success of Rambo: First Blood, the franchise changed tack entirely. Rambo: First Blood showed a lot of compassion toward its troubled antihero, but made it clear that Rambo was struggling to adjust to civilian life because of the atrocities he took part in while serving in the military. In the modest, tonally dark original movie, Rambo: First Blood, John Rambo was a Vietnam War veteran who ended up in a bloody stand-off with a corrupt small-town sheriff's department upon his return to the US. The Rambo franchise had a fascinating history that repeatedly redefined the role of its central antihero. Now, Rambo simply wounded a lot of people, so that he could survive and possibly find a way to live with his actions at the end of the film.While Rambo: Last Blood didn’t completely bomb at the box office, the Rambo sequel was comfortably the worst movie in the series. The resulting screenplay, which Stallone had a hand in, eliminated the killing. When the film finally went into production in 1981, Stallone, who had catapulted from wannabe screenwriter and actor to mega-stardom in the 1976 hit Rocky, took on the role of Rambo. Not long after it was published, Hollywood wanted the film rights, and Morrell watched with bemusement as various directors (Richard Brooks, Stanley Kramer, and Martin Ritt, for example) and movie stars (such as Steve McQueen, Robert Blake, and Paul Newman) were attached and unattached to the project. Soon, he uses his combat-honed skills to do away with police officers, civilians, and posse members in the backwoods of Kentucky as they first pursue him and then become the pursued. After a middle-aged police officer locks Rambo up, things go badly. In it, Rambo (he has no first name in Morrell's novel), is viewed by small-town locals as a member of the counterculture because he doesn't cut his hair, doesn't take a bath, and doesn't have a job. The result was First Blood, Morrell's debut novel, which was published to mostly good reviews.
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