
The Amazing Spider-Man comic book author Dan Slott has hobnobbed with some well-known people over the years. Sometimes this means sitting down to dinner with famous people he may not initially know are famous people, as happened during a dinner with Rambo creator David Morrell, who penned First Blood. Years later, Slott admitted he still thinks “about this” meeting quite “a lot.” Here’s why.
In a rundown on threads, Dan Slott opened up about a night he went to dinner with some heavy hitters in the writing industry. Among them were fellow Marvel comics writers Peter David, Brian Reed, Mike Carey, and First Blood’s Morrell. He said Morrell told the story about Rambo going from book to the big screen, and how his agent really went to bat for him… despite the author really try to fight him every step of the way. Here’s how it went down, per his story on Threads: