Red Scorpion - videos, teasers and stills from filming

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Red Scorpion (1988)

Timing: 1:45 (105 min)

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Actors and characters

Red Scorpion (1988) BLU-RAY TRAILER [HD 1080P]

English

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What's left behind the scenes

The film featured real Bushmen, and Regopstaan, at 95 years old, was the tribe's chief who agreed to appear only on the condition that his tribe would follow him everywhere.
The opening scene of the original script was different from what appears in the film. It was supposed to show the character played by Dolph Lundgren training in snowy Moscow. The scene was ultimately cut from the script due to its cost and the filming schedule.
At one point, the film's cast and crew were stranded in Johannesburg for three months while waiting to move to a new location. This was originally intended to be the Kingdom of Swaziland (renamed the Kingdom of Eswatini in 2018). Eventually, however, filming took place in Namibia. At that time, it was part of South Africa, and the filmmakers thus violated the international boycott of the country imposed due to the apartheid regime.
During the filming of this movie, Dolph Lundgren performed some of the most dangerous stunts of his acting career, including a motorcycle jump onto a truck.
On many posters, Dolph Lundgren's hairstyle was altered to more closely resemble that of Ivan Drago from Sylvester Stallone's sports drama *Rocky IV* (1985), even though his character already had a different hairstyle in that film. This was likely done to emphasize that the actor was once again playing a Russian. In reality, it's more likely that the filmmakers deliberately gave him a different hairstyle so that the characters in these two films wouldn't resemble each other, and so that Nikolai would visually differ from Ivan in Stallone's film.

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