{"id":41668,"date":"2026-05-25T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41668"},"modified":"2026-05-10T15:21:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:21:52","slug":"rambo-iii-mick-mcgintys-rare-prelims-for-the-announcement-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41668","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rambo III&#8221; &#8211; Mick McGinty&#8217;s Rare Prelims for the Announcement Poster!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z052526rambo3_mick_mcginty.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z052526rambo3_mick_mcginty.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"659\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Rambo III<\/em> was initially going to be directed by Russell <em>&#8220;Highlander&#8221;<\/em> Mulcahy.\u00a0 Two weeks into production, Mulcahy left due to creative differences. Peter MacDonald was brought in, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But when <em>Rambo II<\/em>I was first announced one of the ads had Rambo on horseback with a crossbow.\u00a0 The art above is some of the studies created by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mickmcginty.com\/rambo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mick McGinty<\/a> before the final piece was created.\u00a0 Click on the photo above to see a trilogy-sized version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rambo III was initially going to be directed by Russell &#8220;Highlander&#8221; Mulcahy.\u00a0 Two weeks into production, Mulcahy left due to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41669,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41668\/revisions\/41669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}