History Trivia / RedScorpion

* TroubledProduction: The movie was originally set to film in UsefulNotes/{{Swaziland}}, but the production was denied permits just a week before filming was to begin. As a result, it was instead filmed in what was then the UsefulNotes/{{South Africa}}n province of South-West Africa (now the republic of UsefulNotes/{{Namibia}}). This [[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-americas-most-notorious-lobbyist-produced-a-dolph-lundgren-film immediately caused problems]], as South Africa at the time was under [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra apartheid]] and subject to massive international pressure against it, and more importantly, the South African government and the film's producer and writer, the infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff, were using the film (in which Creator/DolphLundgren plays as Spetsnaz operative in Africa who defects to the anti-communist rebels) as part of their propaganda efforts to portray the African National Congress as communist sympathizers. Creator/WarnerBros pulled out of the production as a result, not wanting to run afoul of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, while anti-apartheid activists led a boycott of Lundgren's films in protest. Even a number of cast and crew members, such as [[MeanCharacterNiceActor Carmen Argenziano (who plays a villainous Cuban colonel)]], [[[HostilityOnTheSet were disgusted when they found out that South Africa was essentially bankrolling the film]]. Creator/TomSavini, meanwhile, who did special effects work on the film and described his experience in one of the DVD bonus features, also said that the meals on set were barely edible and that he and his family almost died in a flood during production. The budget ballooned to $16 million as a result of the delays to production that these issues caused, even with [[BackedByThePentagon the South African Defense Forces providing support of their own]], and it landed at the box office in April 1989 with a resounding thud.

* TroubledProduction: The movie was originally set to film in UsefulNotes/{{Swaziland}}, but the production was denied permits just a week before filming was to begin. As a result, it was instead filmed in what was then the UsefulNotes/{{South Africa}}n province of South-West Africa (now the republic of UsefulNotes/{{Namibia}}). This [[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-americas-most-notorious-lobbyist-produced-a-dolph-lundgren-film immediately caused problems]], as South Africa at the time was under [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra apartheid]] and subject to massive international pressure against it, and more importantly, the South African government and the film's producer and writer, the infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff, were using the film (in which Creator/DolphLundgren plays as Spetsnaz operative in Africa who defects to the anti-communist rebels) as part of their propaganda efforts to portray the African National Congress as communist sympathizers. Creator/WarnerBros pulled out of the production as a result, not wanting to run afoul of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, while anti-apartheid activists led a boycott of Lundgren's films in protest. Even a number of cast and crew members, such as Carmen Argenziano (who plays a villainous Cuban colonel), were disgusted when they found out that South Africa was essentially bankrolling the film. Creator/TomSavini, meanwhile, who did special effects work on the film and described his experience in one of the DVD bonus features, also said that the meals on set were barely edible and that he and his family almost died in a flood during production. The budget ballooned to $16 million as a result of the delays to production that these issues caused, even with [[BackedByThePentagon the South African Defense Forces providing support of their own]], and it landed at the box office in April 1989 with a resounding thud.

* TroubledProduction: The movie was originally set to film in UsefulNotes/{{Swaziland}}, but the production was denied permits just a week before filming was to begin. As a result, it was instead filmed in what was then the UsefulNotes/{{South Africa}}n province of South-West Africa (now the republic of UsefulNotes/{{Namibia}}). This [[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-americas-most-notorious-lobbyist-produced-a-dolph-lundgren-film immediately caused problems]], as South Africa at the time was under [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra apartheid]] and subject to massive international pressure against it, and more importantly, the South African government and the film's producer and writer, the infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff, were using the film (in which Creator/DolphLundgren plays as Spetsnaz operative in Africa who defects to the anti-communist rebels) as part of their propaganda efforts to portray the African National Congress as communist sympathizers. Creator/WarnerBros pulled out of the production as a result, not wanting to run afoul of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, while anti-apartheid activists led a boycott of Lundgren's films in protest. Even a number of cast and crew members, such as Carmen Argenziano (who plays a villainous Cuban colonel), were disgusted when they found out that South Africa was essentially bankrolling the film. Creator/TomSavini, meanwhile, who did special effects work on the film and described his experience in one of the DVD bonus features, also said that the meals on set were barely edible and that he and his family almost died in a flood during production. The budget ballooned to $16 million as a result of the delays to production that these issues caused, even with [[BackedByThePentagon the South African Defense Forces providing support of their own]], and it landed at the box office in April 1989 with a resounding thud.

* FakeRussian: Lundgren, [[Film/RockyIV once]] [[Film/AViewToAKill again]].

* FakeRussian: Lundgren, [[RockyIV once]] [[Film/AViewToAKill again]].

* FakeRussian: Lundgren, [[RockyIV once]] [[AViewToAKill again]].

* FakeRussian: Lundgren, [[{{Rocky}} once]] [[AViewToAKill again]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[BladeRunner Leon Kowalski]] is a commie.