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Kirk Douglas as COL Trautman?

  

Apparently, Kirk Douglas was slated to portray COL Trautman in “First Blood” but left due to script differences. Since Douglas was replaced by Richard Crenna, all we have is this portrait by illustrator Drew Struzman, meant to be used for promotional purposes. 

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8 Responses to “Kirk Douglas as COL Trautman?”

  1. Echo says:
    November 2, 2015 at 22:35

    The script differences were that he thought Trautman should kill Rambo at the end of the movie. There is a cut scene where Rambo uses Trautman’s 45 yo self terminate white Trautman holds the gun.

  2. Mark says:
    November 2, 2015 at 23:27

    Maybe Kirk didn’t want to be portrayed as a Navy captain in a green beret.

    🙂

  3. Bill says:
    November 3, 2015 at 00:21

    There was a script?

  4. Steve says:
    November 3, 2015 at 02:41

    Looks like he would have been Sergeant Trautman from that drawing.

    • SSD says:
      November 3, 2015 at 12:46

      If you’d seen the movie, you’d know that they screwed up the beret for Crenna as well.

  5. Paul T. McCain says:
    November 3, 2015 at 15:03

    I am Spartacus!