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‘Rambo 5′ Still In the Works, Now Titled ‘Last Stand’

Kofi Outlaw — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:52:08 +0000

Over a year ago we were bombarded with news of there possibly being a fifth Rambo movie – news that quickly transformed into a bizarre saga of rumors and misconceptions – and for once it wasn’t entirely the Internet’s fault.

It all started when it was announced that Rambo 5 had been greenlit. Then came a title (Rambo V: The Savage Hunt) along with a bizarre sci-fi/horror plot synopsis that involved Rambo and his young protege taking on a predatory monster created by government experiments. Before too long Stallone backed out, claiming there would be no more Rambo movies.

Despite that claim, promotional posters for Rambo V were displayed at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, and it was rumored that the studio could possibly make another Rambo without Stallone, either using the ...

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Stallone Intrigued by Rambo Prequel

Chris Schrader — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:34:34 +0000

Sylvester Stallone has employed a unique strategy to help promote his latest film, The Expendables - he’s been answering questions submitted by the readers of Aint It Cool. When asked about the possibility of a Rambo prequel starring a new (and younger) actor in the title role, Stallone seemed surprisingly receptive to the idea.

Stallone previously stated that the Rambo franchise was done after deciding not to move forward with a fifth film that would have seen the character taking on Mexican drug cartels involved with human trafficking. Stallone’s reservations centered around the fact that Rambo’s mission in that film would be more of a “mercenary gesture” rather than something confronted out of necessity.

Apparently a pre-First Blood story that depicts Rambo’s time in Vietnam seems like a better fit. According to ...

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Rambo 5 Without Stallone?

Niall Browne — Sat, 15 May 2010 15:25:24 +0000

A few weeks ago it came to light that Sylvester Stallone wouldn’t be making Rambo 5 – despite two very different ideas about where to take the next film.

The curtains appeared to have closed on the Rambo franchise and Stallone seemed to be happy to move on to different projects.

However, that was before Rambo 5 posters started appearing at the Cannes festival – posters with Stallone’s legendary mug firmly established on the materials.

So what’s the story? According to AICN, Stallone was as surprised as everyone else:

“Stallone told me in no uncertain terms – At the end of JOHN RAMBO – when he sees his home, those horses and he looks back at that road… for Sly, that was a road he is never walking down again. In August, he’s doing an expanded edition ...

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Stallone: No More Rambo Movies

Rob Keyes — Sun, 02 May 2010 22:09:05 +0000

Yesterday, we reported on news that Sylvester Stallone may not be proceeding onward with a Rambo 5 as was expected. The news originated from Sheryl Main, the publicist for The Expendables, who wrote on her blog that Stallone had dropped a “bombshell” on her a few months ago that there would be no Rambo 5 and that she’d update us on what his next project would be later.

Now we’ve got word from Stallone himself, confirming that he’s almost positive that he’s done with the Rambo franchise. In Empire‘s cover feature for The Expendables, a little time was spent on trying to get to low-down on Rambo 5 to clear up the confusion about what the plot will focus on, and instead, they got the surprising answer that the project’s not ...

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Stallone Not Making Rambo 5?

Niall Browne — Sat, 01 May 2010 13:24:11 +0000

Sylvester Stallone had been talking up Rambo 5 for quite some time. There were reportedly two potential plots under development and it sounded as if Stallone was preparing to shoot the film later this year – once his work on The Expendables was complete.

Now, we’re hearing that Stallone will not be making Rambo 5!

Sheryl Main, the publicist for The Expendables has been keeping a blog chronicling the development of the star-studded film (which opens this summer) – and she appears pretty close to the Stallone camp. Main recently posted the following comment on her blog – a comment that appears to state that there will be no more missions for John Rambo:

“A few months ago I mentioned Sly dropped a bombshell…that bombshell was…no Rambo 5…when he decides what his next move ...

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Is Rambo 5 Heading Back To Mexico?

Kofi Outlaw — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:57:47 +0000

By now you Rambo fans know about Sylvester Stallone’s plans for Rambo 5, which up until now has been tentatively titled The Savage Hunt. Basically, Rambo was going to be sent out to bring down a super-solider turned savage killing machine by a government experiment gone wrong. The official synopsis for the film revealed that this somewhat surprising choice of storyline was actually based on the novel Hunter by author James Byron Huggins.

We here at Screen Rant heard this development and pretty much had the same reaction “Weird… But Cool!” The thought of John Rambo denying life to a “half-human, half-abomination” super-creature seemed like a logical step – after watching bad guys get blown to bloody chunks in Rambo 4, it was obvious that mere humans could no ...

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Stallone Making Rocky 7 After Rambo 5?

Ross Miller — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:58:05 +0000

Despite some rumblings here and there, here’s a little piece of news that I didn’t see actually becoming a reality. We already know Sylvester Stallone is well underway with his awesome looking The Expendables, and that he’s already got Rambo 5 in the pipeline. But that’s not all – apparently after that, Sly is going to give his most well known character another bout in the ring with another Rocky flick.

Stallone reportedly spoke to Tele 5 in Germany recently and since then, the quotes from that interview have made their way online and spread like wild fire (don’t they always?). The quotes are being sourced everywhere from Teen Say (special thanks to /Film for picking it up from them), where Stallone reveals his desire/intention to make Rocky 7. Here’s what he had ...

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Sylvester Stallone Explains Rambo 5 Story Choice

Rob Keyes — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:09:45 +0000

We were going good there for about a week, having not heard another crazy update on what’s going on with the story of the next Rambo film in seven whole days… better than four big updates on the project in one week.

Rambo V: The Savage Hunt, as it’s officially called, is now about Rambo fighting some genetically altered half-human bloodthirsty maybe-immortal abomination that he, his partner “Beau” and a bunch of Black Ops dudes have to go in and hunt down.

Got it so far? If you’re confused or upset by this, Stallone says that this is “actually possible” so just relax, will you?

I am serious about two of the parts above though: my description of the movie is straight out of the official Rambo 5 synopsis and Stallone did just say that.

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Official Synopsis for Rambo 5 (And What It’s Based On)

Rob Keyes — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:24:26 +0000

For our next installment of ‘Rambo 5 Week’ – this is the fourth update on the project in the last 8 days – we have for you the (crazy) official synopsis for Rambo V: The Savage Hunt.

Here’s the story so far: Last Monday we reported that Rambo 5 was given the green light and it would start production in the spring. The story would apparently follow John along the U.S.-Mexico border as he annihilates drug lords in an attempt to rescue a kidnapped daughter.

A few days later, Harry at Ain’t It Cool News spoke with Rambo himself, Sylvester Stallone, and found out that what we heard about the story wasn’t accurate. The fifth installment would instead follow the aging warrior in the Pacific Midwest, back where he originated, where he’d lead a black ...

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Stallone Clears Up Rambo 5 Confusion [Updated]

Rob Keyes — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:31:49 +0000

Last night, we reported on breaking news for the next installment of the Rambo franchise, which centered on the story of Rambo 5 in addition to its title and first teaser poster. From what we heard, the idea for the fifth installment seemed a little odd and it resulted in some confusion and mixed reaction. This provoked Sylvester Stallone himself to quickly address the confusion and explain himself what the film’s story is (and is not) about.

Originally, I had this latest news written in as a hefty-sized update to last night’s post but I wanted to expand on it, now that we have a more concrete concept of Rambo 5′s plot.

Sly read the reader feedback to the news last night on several sites that over-emphasized the science-fiction aspects of the story for Rambo V, ...

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The Story of Rambo 5: The Savage Hunt? [Re-Updated]

Rob Keyes — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:24:04 +0000

On Monday, Screen Rant relayed the great news of Rambo 5 being given the greenlight. It was reported at the time that the story of the next Rambo adventure would follow the bad-ass to the Mexican-U.S. border where he’d tear down a bunch of human traffickers and drug lords to rescue some kidnapped girl.

That part was secondary to seeing Sylvester Stallone back to gruesomely destroy the opposition.

Now comes word that Rambo 5 has a new title, a new poster, and the story we thought we knew isn’t right at all. Apparently, it instead will be about stopping some super-soldier experiments with the Rambo franchise taking a sci-fi twist.

Read on for the details…

Harry Knowles of AICN is pals with Stallone and spoke with him to clarify the matter. According to Harry, ...

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Rambo 5 Has Been Greenlit! [Updated]

Rob Keyes — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:06:14 +0000

I really enjoyed last year’s Rambo which saw an older and more bitter Sylvester Stallone join a team of mercenaries to lay down the pain in war-torn Burma. Their mission, besides destroying a ton of bad guys, was to rescue aid workers.

He was as bad-ass as ever and at the end, many fans just wanted more. Fortunately, ever since that movie banked $113 million worldwide on a $50 million budget, there’s been talk of another installment.

At the beginning of the year, Stallone talked about it again and mentioned that it’s going to happen and that they were still deciding on where the film should take place, either in America or another foreign location.

Fast forward to today and the fifth Rambo has been greenlit! Reportedly, the story of the next Rambo killing ...

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Might ‘The Expendables’ Actually End Up Rated PG-13???

Kofi Outlaw — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:23:46 +0000

Rene Rosa (aka “Evil Adam”) over at UGO Movie Blog recently spent some time on the set of Sylvester Stallone’s tough-guy action flick throwback, The Expendables. During his time on the set, Rene managed to unearth a startling bit of news: According to producer Avi Lerner, The Expendables is going to be edited in two versions: A PG-13 cut and an R-rated cut, which will then be test-screened to determined which version makes it into theaters!!!

I haven’t cared this much about the opinions of focus groups since the last election.

Here’s how this startling news came to light: Rene Rosa was apparently probing Avi Lerner about the next Rambo film (apparently Rambo 5 is definitely going to happen and will be less brutal than the last installment), which led ...

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Stallone To Do Another ‘Rambo’?

Ross Miller — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:51:11 +0000

Just when we thought the legendary action character John Rambo was put firmly to rest last year with Rambo, it seems that Stallone wants to give the character yet another outing.

He had this to say:

Yeah, we are doing another ‘Rambo,’ but the conflict is whether to do it in America or a foreign country.

I had heard speculation about this possibly happening but I never actually believed Stallone would even consider the idea much less actually go ahead with it. Although last year’s Rambo was a half bad/half awesome movie (the first half being dreadful, but the second half kicking copious amounts of ass), it ended pretty much as perfectly as could be, bringing the character’s journey full circle to where we first saw him in the early 80s.

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Rambo 5 A Reality

Niall Browne — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:19:06 +0000

It just goes to show – you can’t keep a good man down!

It looks like Sylvester Stallone is set to return to the role of John Rambo in… you guessed it, Rambo 5.

Lionsgate has appointed former Universal honcho Alli Shearmur to run the studio and one of the films in their production pipe line is Rambo 5.

Much like Rambo/ John Rambo (depending on where you live) it will be written and directed by Stallone. The fifth film in the mega-action franchise will shoot in Bulgaria and is expected to go before cameras reasonably soon.

The last Rambo made $113 million worldwide and it must have made a killing on DVD – there have been rumors circling since the release of the last installment, but many never thought that Stallone would pull the trigger on another movie. However, now that it’s on ...

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Rambo 5 ???

Niall Browne — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:17:49 +0000

Over the past few months there have been rumors that Sylvester Stallone would revisiting (again) the role of John Rambo.

I’d never put much stock in these rumors as Stallone appears to have a full slate ahead of him with the Death Wish remake and the ever gestating Edgar Allan Poe biopic.

However, you can’t keep a good action hero down and with Rambo’s $100 million worldwide gross Harvey Weinstein wanted to continue the franchise and keep the iconic character on the bigscreen.

It would seem that he got what he wanted (much to the disapointment of Mick Jagger).

Screen Daily is reporting that the new Rambo flick will lens in Bulgaria (of all places).

According to the trade paper (via Moviehole) the fifth installment of the action franchise will be one of the first films to use a new studio ...

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