We heard last year (before the release of The Expendables) that Rambo 5 was basically cancelled; after writer/director/star Sylvester Stallone told Empire Magazine that he was “about 99% sure there won’t be any more”; however it looks as if he may have been speaking slightly prematurely, and that a fifth film could well be on the cards.
Speaking to both FEARnet and Empire, Conan the Barbarian writer Sean Hood confirmed that he’s recently submitted a screenplay for a fifth Rambo movie (titled Rambo: Last Stand) to Millennuim Films, and that Stallone himself has already gotten involved with the script; “I met with Mr. Stallone twice last year, he gave me a book, an older screenplay, and about twenty pages he’d written himself to use as inspiration for the last chapter of the Rambo saga.”
While Sean remained cagey about the details of the script (and the book that Stallone had given him), he did stress that it doesn’t follow any of the suggested plot-lines that have been suggested on the internet thus far; which include everything from having the one-man-army taking on a drug cartel to rescue a kidnapped girl, to going down the sci-fi route and basically creating a Rambo Vs Predator movie; and suggested that his version is “more in line with the small-town thriller of First Blood.”
Opinion is divided as to whether or not the world actually needs another Rambo movie, and even the fans who believe another outing would be a good thing stress that it needs to be done right, but as it stands at the moment it’s still a little early for anyone to get up in arms about Rambo 5; seen as how it hasn’t officially been commissioned by the studio; Sean stressed that Stallone currently “has his hands full with Bullet to the Head and The Expendables 2”, and that he “doesn’t know if Mr Stallone will actually do it”; though he does “hope that he’ll eventually be inspired to do one more Rambo film, with the tone of Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven.”
Matt Wheeldon.
Source: Empire.
