Lead sleds are a popular platform for hot rodders and customizers in the automotive world. The Mercury Monterey in the Cobra movie is the perfect example of a lead sled. It was customized to add better road-handling and to get more speed than a stock vehicle. And, it had an intimidating look. So, it became a movie celebrity all on its own. A post shared by Sly Stallone officialslystallone. The car, of course, had some impressive scenes to be a part of in the movie.
The cameras follow a car chase surprise! Bullets fly at the car from the front and the rear as the car is seen negotiating traffic on busy roads.
But, our hero the car, not Sylvester Stallone , is flicked through paved corners and alleyways. For example, at one point the car is maneuvered into a high-speed, degree spin that translates into a high-speed chase in reverse.
Basically, the car stole every scene of the movie it was in. I know, I know. Sylvester Stallone is pretty attention-grabbing. But, watch the clip of the chase scene below and you will see what I mean.
The car is the star. But, its whereabouts have been questionable at times. So, to track its whereabouts down I had to do some cyber sleuthing. Cobra attempts to shoot Nightstalker but is jumped by Stalk, only to be accidentally shot by Nightslasher. This would have led into the hand-to-hand fight seen in the final version. Costmatos to discuss his characters' motivations as a backstory and suggested that the character would have some Polaroid pictures and personal files on the people he's killing.
Stallone agreed and told Cosmatos to get him what he asked for. The knife that Brian Thompson features in the film was actually a functioning knife which was very dangerous, and would be able to cut a person with it. Thompson actually cut himself with it at one point, but not too badly. This is shown when he unloads his pistol in his apartment to clean it.
The 9mm versions were made especially for the film. The movie is filled with over-the-top s product placement. Pepsi machine and Coors display and can in first shoot-out. Giant Pepsi sign beside Stallone's apartment. Toys R Us commercial which Cobra watches on television. Pepsi sign lit up at night outside Cobra's apartment - background for fight scene. Coors California sign in store window.
Coca-Cola machine outside store with character drinking can of Coke. Bar scene with Miller High-Life sign in background. To get the glint reflection of the Night Stalkers' specialized killing knife, the production had to build a 3 foot knife so they could actually get the reflection effect that they wanted. Brian Thompson was quite surprised by it and said the knife was actually made of plastic and some reflective material to get the shot.
In the original rough cut the car chase scene between Cobra and Nightslasher was longer and ended differently. While in the theatrical version Nightslasher shoots at Cobra's car and causes him to crash into the boat, in the original version Nightslasher and his driver crash into the boat first, and Cobra fails to stop his car and crashes into them.
The shot of Nightslasher's car and him sighing in relief was re-purposed from an earlier part of the chase and the shot of Cobra seeing the boat before he crashes into it was actually taken from Nightslasher's car crash. However if you watch the theatrical version of this scene closely you can still see Nightslasher's crashed car right when Cobra's car crashes into the boat.
The submachine gun used by Marion Cobretti in the final showdown with biker gang is a Jati-Matic. The Jati-Matic first appeared in the early s, but was never adopted by any country for use. The gun is chambered in 9x19 parabellum, has a cyclic rate of rounds per minute, and has various accessories that were offered, such as a silencer, various capacity magazines, and a laser pointing device. During the car chase scene the car the Nightslasher is in and the truck following Cobra are both driving erratically.
Cobra's driving is smooth and measured for most of the chase. This was filmed to reflect the chaotic nature of the Night Slasher and his followers and emphasized that Cobra was always cool and in control. Cannon films were known in the s for producing relatively low budget action films starring the likes of Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson. The producers, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, had managed to talk Stallone into doing a two picture deal the other film being s 'Over the Top' but they lacked the finances to hire a star as expensive as Stallone so entered into an agreement with Warner Brothers to co-fund and distribute the movies.
So in effect Cannon Films would produce the films in a package sold to Warner Brothers. Both films were only moderately successful though and didn't make the huge profits that were expected.
By the late s Cannon Films backed out of big budget A list productions due to financial difficulties caused by this string of high profile films that flopped or under-performed. They continued on making low budget films with the likes of Chuck Norris, Michael Dudikoff and some of the earlier Jean-Claude Van Damme films but ultimately went bankrupt in the early s.
Marco Rodriguez in the years following this film and working in other projects has had "The Disease" posted on his trailer to which he takes as a personal compliment as his character has a cult following. Al Leong was initially cast as one of the lead villains. His role was eliminated following protests by an advocacy group that objected to the casting of an Asian villain. George P. Cosmatos told Brian Thompson that he was glowing about Marco Rodriguez's performance as "The Supermarket Killer" saying to him that he was "fucking great and I hope you are like that too".
This was said to inspire Thompson in his performance after the opening was filmed. Director George P. Costmatos would get upset to the point of explosion on set when he was not getting a particular performance. Marco Rodriguez was one such victim when he was only doing what Cosmatos asked of him through his broken English. Rodriguez would counter that he was "only doing what he asked of him.
Lee Garglington was cast in the film and actually had to go to the casting audition at in the morning. She wanted to be in the film not for its artistic value, but because it was a big role, a lot of money, and wanted to play a bad girl.
In both films, Santoni plays a police officer named Gonzales, while in the earlier film Robinson credited as Andy Robinson played the main antagonist. The opening credits font is identical to the the one that had been used for the 'Rambo' logo the previous year, and would forevermore be associated with that series. The official soundtrack release includes a track called "Skyline" which is not heard anywhere in the movie.
This is because scenes in which this track was used were cut out from the movie during re-editing. Originally there was a scene in which Cobretti is sitting in his home, looking at a sunset there is a similar scene in the beginning of theatrical version in which he is cleaning up his gun and then looks at streets outside of his house and soon, right after Nightslasher and his gang members killed the second victim and cops show up at the scene, Cobretti gets the call from his police chief or somebody else to go and meet with them and it is in this scene where the "Skyline" track is heard.
The 'Chase' music from the score by Sylvester Levay would go on to become a popular choice of stock music for action movie trailers, notably featuring in the trailers for Bloodsport and Marked for Death Andrew Robinson talked to Sylvester Stallone about the films' original ending before it was filmed and told him that "they had killed so many people in the film and it takes away from the moments. In the diner scene where Cobretti brings over the fake hamburger to Ingrid, there is an oval frame on the wall that says "King Cobra" - a brand of beer.
The final shooting script for the film was pages sans rewrites and additional dialog and material added. Released in , it sold 1, million tickets in Hungary, making it the second most watched release of the year behind latecomer They Call Me Trinity Santiago Segura has claimed that this movie was the inspiration for his well-known character Jose Luis Torrente, main star of Torrente - Der dumme Arm des Gesetzes and sequels, that he conceived as a parody of the 80s action movies.
In fact, the title is a spoof of Stallone's movie, since then in Spain Cobra was titled as "Cobra, el brazo fuerte de la ley" Cobra, the strong arm of the law. During the final act, Cobra and Ingrid are pursued through a lemonary.
The film has the most lemons in any one take of any film ever and is the 'go to' Christmas movie for the citrus community. In the suit, according to the report, Stallone describes how he found his vehicle "by sheer fortuity" when he came across an online car auction that featured the same Mercury "Cobra" car.
He goes on to express his shock toward the occurrence and that someone had the "temerity" to attempt to sell his car in public after Stallone reported it stolen. The "iconic custom-built" Mercury was featured in the actor's film "Cobra. Please enter email address to continue. Please enter valid email address to continue.
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