Stallone returning one more time to play Rambo in Rambo 5

[Guestx]

He's 71 so it's going to be interesting to see how he looks physically. If he can still convincingly play Rambo as a man in his fucking 70s then that will indeed be impressive.

Not sure how I feel about the Mexican cartel storyline.

Per Deadline:

It’s seemingly not over until it’s over for Vietnam vet John Rambo. And even then it might not be over. Sylvester Stallone is set to return for a fifth installment in the Rambo franchise, I understand. There were whispers he may also direct but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Avi Lerner’s Millennium is launching sales on the project in Cannes with a tentative shoot date set for September of this year. Stallone is understood to be working on the script and his Expendables collaborator Lerner will produce.

In the fifth episode of the franchise, when the daughter of one of his friends is kidnapped, Rambo, who has been working on a ranch, crosses the U.S.-Mexican border and quickly finds himself up against the full might of one of Mexico’s most violent cartels.

The lucrative Rambo franchise launched in 1982 with First Blood and a fifth installment has been mooted for some time, despite the actor expressing reservations about a return a couple of years ago. Stallone, who starred in and directed the last episode of the series in 2008, is currently working on Creed II. UK trade Screen International was first out the gate with the news.

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

Should have been Isis

I wanted to see Rambo in a USA Tshirt killing terrorists

 

[Tuf_guy]

And this time it's convalescent!

 

[ufcfan4]

I almost feel like '08 was the ideal cap off and they shouldn't try to make lightning strike twice in terms of making another Rambo movie that's a lot better than it had any right to be.

Hell, I think that Rambo (2008) is actually pretty comfortably the second best of the series. And I actually might like it more than First Blood too if I gave them each a re-watch. Haven't seen the original in years.

 

[BisexualMMA]

He should film it in Vietnam and try to pass it off as Mexico.

 

[Guestx]

Should have been Isis

I wanted to see Rambo in a USA Tshirt killing terrorists

That is 100% right.

 

[BisexualMMA]

I almost feel like '08 was the ideal cap off and they shouldn't try to make lightning strike twice in terms of making another Rambo movie that's a lot better than it had any right to be.

Hell, I think that Rambo (2008) is actually pretty comfortably the second best of the series. And I actually might like it more than First Blood too if I gave them each a re-watch. Haven't seen the original in years.

He really brought back his acting game for Rocky 6 and Rambo 4. Then came all that Expendables shit. Then came Creed. I'm not sure which mode he's in right now.

 

[Headkicktoleg]

He really brought back his acting game for Rocky 6 and Rambo 4. Then came all that Expendables shit. Then came Creed. I'm not sure which mode he's in right now.

He has fun with expendables, but cares with franchises he cares about.

 

[BisexualMMA]

He has fun with expendables, but cares with franchises he cares about.

Expendables is so mailed in with the acting, and especially the writing (good lord), that it's like a different guy. I don't think he would have recovered the way he did recently had he not been approached by Coogler with the perfect sequel.

 

[Tiny]

Should have been Isis

I wanted to see Rambo in a USA Tshirt killing terrorists

Rambo 3 has rambo helping isis...


Fucking 80s

 

[Guestx]

I almost feel like '08 was the ideal cap off and they shouldn't try to make lightning strike twice in terms of making another Rambo movie that's a lot better than it had any right to be.

Hell, I think that Rambo (2008) is actually pretty comfortably the second best of the series. And I actually might like it more than First Blood too if I gave them each a re-watch. Haven't seen the original in years.

I can't find it now but I actually read something earlier where Stallone was saying that he himself thought 4 was a good way to end things and that, physically, he thought that was the last time he'd be interested in playing the character since it's such a grueling ordeal.

I guess he changed his mind though. Maybe it's because people stopped giving a shit about the Expendables franchise.

 

[Sauk]

North Koreans will hold his nursing home hostage ?

 

[ufcfan4]

He really brought back his acting game for Rocky 6 and Rambo 4. Then came all that Expendables shit. Then came Creed. I'm not sure which mode he's in right now.

Hahah yeah the trajectory of his career since after, say, 2005 has been wildly uneven, but it's been cool and unpredictable to see how things play out.

I thought Rocky Balboa was awesome and removed the stench of Rocky V. Then when it was announced he was doing another Rambo, I was like, ugghh went to the well once too often. Turns out he delivers AGAIN.

Expendables was a fun idea on paper. Obviously less so in execution.

That movie where he and DeNiro were rival boxers was pretty awful.

Creed was great. Probably one of the films from 2015 I most enjoyed.

I thought Guardians of the Galaxy 2 was a lot of fun and Stallone's cameo was cool.

 

[BisexualMMA]

Creed was great. Probably one of the films from 2015 I most enjoyed.

 

[ufcfan4]

Expendables is so mailed in with the acting, and especially the writing (good lord), that it's like a different guy. I don't think he would have recovered the way he did recently had he not been approached by Coogler with the perfect sequel.

That's partially what worries me about Creed 2. I mean Coogler not at the helm but in the producer role. I'm wondering if it will lose a lot because of that.

 

[DaleBoca]

Just do a Cobra sequel. Outside of First Blood, the rest of the movies are non-existent to me. They're just so different and flat out foolish. Even as a kid, I watched them and was like meh.

 

[BisexualMMA]

That's partially what worries me about Creed 2. I mean Coogler not at the helm but in the producer role. I'm wondering if it will lose a lot because of that.

I have concerns.

 

[JosephDredd]

Around 2010 he purchased a script about fighting werewolves and was going to turn it into Rambo 5, but changed his mind. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Rambo 1 and 4 were too serious to suddenly include werewolves, but Rambo 2 and 3 were so stupid that werewolves would be just perfect.

And with the amount of HGH and steroids he's on he'll do just fine, even in his seventies.

 

[ufcfan4]

 

[Guestx]

Just do a Cobra sequel. Outside of First Blood, the rest of the movies are non-existent to me. They're just so different and flat out foolish. Even as a kid, I watched them and was like meh.

Rambo 2 and 3 are definitely overrated. I revisited Rambo II recently and it really is not that good.

Rambo 4 isn't bad, but plot-wise there's nothing to get excited about.

Overall, frankly, it's a franchise that has an awesome lead character but the movies surrounding that character aren't great.