{"id":1728548,"date":"2022-11-07T15:47:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T20:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728548"},"modified":"2022-11-07T15:47:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T20:47:49","slug":"what-an-idiot-sylvester-stallone-reveals-the-insane-amount-of-money-he-turned-down-for-another-rambo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-an-idiot-sylvester-stallone-reveals-the-insane-amount-of-money-he-turned-down-for-another-rambo\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What An Idiot\u2019: Sylvester Stallone Reveals The Insane Amount Of Money He Turned Down For Another \u2018Rambo\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhat-an-idiot-sylvester-stallone-reveals-the-insane-amount-of-money-he-turned-down-for-another-rambo%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728548&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sylvester Stallone admitted he was \u201can idiot\u201d when he turned down an offer of $34 million back in the 1980s to make \u201cRambo IV\u201d because he thought filmmakers were jumping the gun on the franchise\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p>In a wide-ranging interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/sylvester-stallone\">76-year-old<\/a> actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/sylvester-stallone-interview-rocky-rambo-tulsa-king-1235254384\/\">explained<\/a> that back he was filming \u201cRambo III\u201d he wasn\u2019t convinced another sequel would do well.<\/p>\n<p>The reporter asked Stallone, \u201cWhat\u2019s the most you were ever paid for a role?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were doing Rambo III,\u201d the superstar actor shared. \u201cWe thought it was going to be the biggest hit \u2013 this was before it came out. And I was paid a fortune for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen they go, \u2018We want Rambo IV. Here it is: Pay or play, 34 [million],&#8217;\u201d Stallone shared. \u201cI go, \u2018Let\u2019s not jump the gun here\u2026&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sylvester Stallone is still fighting. <\/p>\n<p>The 76-year-old Hollywood icon gets candid about his career, regrets, family, aging, the future of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rocky?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Rocky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rambo?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Rambo<\/a> and his new TV projects: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yzIuNgU1jx\">https:\/\/t.co\/yzIuNgU1jx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ptDZyLSCzw\">pic.twitter.com\/ptDZyLSCzw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/THR\/status\/1589620516654305280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The interviewer noted that $34 million back then would be about $85 million today. This knowledge hit the \u201cFirst Blood\u201d star hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor real,\u201d Stallone replied. \u201cThat\u2019s not a joke. Oh boy, what an idiot. Now I think about that and \u2026 wow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At one point, the \u201cRocky\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sylvester-stallone-pleads-for-whats-left-of-my-rights-back-from-rocky-producer-after-decades-long-battle\">star<\/a> talked about his latest headlines after his wife of 25 years, Jennifer Flavin, had filed for divorce. The two have since reconciled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully you\u2019re involved with people who understand the foibles of life and the fragility of it and how rare a real good relationship is,\u201d Stallone explained. \u201cSometimes I put the work ahead of [my family], and that is a tragic mistake which won\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flavin, 22 years younger than Stallone, married the actor in 1997 following his second marriage to Brigitte Nielsen, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11142185\/Sylvester-Stallones-wife-Jennifer-Flavin-files-DIVORCE.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailceleb\">Daily Mail<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p>The couple went on to have three daughters together, Scarlet, 20; Sistine, 24; and Sophia, 26.<\/p>\n<p>Stallone is also a father to son Seargeoh from his marriage to his first wife, Sasha Czack, and the former couple\u2019s late-son Sage, who died in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sylvester-stallones-wife-files-for-divorce-from-rocky-star-after-25-years\">Sylvester Stallone\u2019s Wife Files For Divorce From \u2018Rocky\u2019 Star After 25\u00a0Years<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sylvester Stallone admitted he was \u201can idiot\u201d when he turned down an offer of $34 million back in the 1980s to make \u201cRambo IV\u201d because he thought filmmakers were jumping the gun on the franchise\u2019s success. In a wide-ranging interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 76-year-old actor explained that back he was filming \u201cRambo III\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1728551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1728551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}