Trivia / Rolling Thunder

The Movie

• Completely Different Title:
  • Latin America: Overwhelming Storm
  • Brazil: The Other Face of Violence
  • Bulgaria: Unrestrained Anger
  • Finland: Doomsday
  • France: Legitimate Violence
  • Germany: The Man With the Steel Claw
  • Greece: It Was Beating Like Lightning
  • Portugal: The Relentless Executioner
  • Spain: Former Korean Prisoner
  • Turkey: Hook: Worse Than Death
• What Could Have Been:
  • The original story treatment by Paul Schrader was even more of a Spiritual Successor to his earlier film Taxi Driver, with an additional exploration of nationalist racism.
  • Joe Don Baker and David Carradine were considered for Charles Rane.

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The game

• Follow the Leader: It inspired several spy-themed side-scrolling action games with similar shooting and jumping mechanics, such as Capcom's Code Name: Viper, Data East's Sly Spy, and Konami's Special Project Y.
• No Export for You: Rolling Thunder 3 was only released in the U.S.

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