Despite the fact that the literal President of the United States was currently staying there, David Morrell was the one the hotel staff decided to place inside the Presidential Suite Bill Clinton stayed in the second-best room, the suite usually left for authors. The flag that maybe things weren’t exactly as they seemed was that Morrell was visiting Poland at the same time as then-President Bill Clinton, and they happened to be staying in the same hotel. And he didn’t actually learn about Rambo’s involvement in the dismantling of the Soviet Union until about fifteen-or-so-years after the initial Rambo adaptation was released.Īt Thrillerfest this past weekend, Morrell recounted the story of how Rambo‘s influence in Poland came to his attention.ĭuring the early 2000’s, Morrell was visiting Poland on a book tour and noticed straight away that he was being treated, well, differently… Now, Morrell (AKA: Rambo’s Father) hadn’t actually set-out to achieve something so historic he never could’ve known the power his words might hold while he was putting them on the page. You may already know all about David Morrell, the legendary bestselling author of First Blood(the 1972 novel that the entire Rambofranchise is based on.) What you may not know, however, is that Rambo actually had a pretty big part in dissolving the USSR.ĭavid Morrell and Sylvester Stallone | Image via IMDB
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