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Stallone Says RAMBO 5 Is No Longer Rambo -vs- That Horrible Monster Guy!!
Merrick here...
A few months back we learned that the next RAMBO movie would throw John Rambo & a team of mercenaries/Black Ops dudes into conflict with a genetically engineered creature of unspeakable awfulness (details HERE).
Seems this is no longer the case. Over at StaloneZone, Craig received a message from Sly about the film's new direction.
From Sly
Hi Craig,
This is from Sly to your followers:
To all the loyal SZoners out there,
I’m letting you know that Rambo has changed course and the story about hunting the man/beast will be done using another character in the lead. RAMBO himself will be heading over the border to a violent city where many young women have vanished
There will be blood.
Best,
Sly Stallone
...says StalloneZone HERE.
I loved the fourth RAMBO film and am all for nearly anything Sly does with Part 5. This said, I'm a bit disappointed by this news because I thought the notion of RAMBO -vs- an existential beast ("an amalgamation of fury, intelligence, and pure, unadulterated rage"...i.e. FORBIDDEN PLANET's Id creature...per Sly) was pretty ingenious.
Ah well, hopefully this means well get two ultra-violent, thematically motivated Stallone extravaganzas instead of one. That wouldn't be bad at all...
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i love me some cocaine. i'm like the energizer bunny, fuckers!
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Rambo doesn't need to get the sci-fi treatment.
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anyway....so he's gone back to the original idea for Part 4? well thats good, the monster one should be its own thing. making Rambo go suddenly sci-fi would be like Having a new Terminator where he's a security guard at a Hannah Montana concert protecting her from 30yr old pervs.
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New character for the sci-fi type man vs. beast flick. Rambo stays in the nitty-gritty world of hyper-violent reality. Shrewd move, Sly.
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Dy-No-Mite!
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I agree. Two sly movies are better than one. This is a much better idea. Good Luck Sly!
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Nov. 12, 2009, 10:39 a.m. CST
Looks like Stallone is saving a few bucks on focus groups...
by Chakraborty
...by using AICN talkbacks.
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just keep it straight up raw brutal realistic action
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I was actually excited about that concept. I thought 4 was ok. But I was pretty stoked to see him do something different with the character. It's something I've wanted to see from franchises for a long time. Some imagination. Too bad.
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the other idea would have been awful, just throw him against the Predator.
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After his message was posted here, it sounded like an interesting idea but with the success of the last Rambo film, it's a better idea to keep John Rambo in a more grounded reality. I love the idea of John Rambo being hired to find a missing kid/woman. Knowing how well Sly made the last one, this could be gold. Plus, we get the other story anyway hopefully and with a new character. Loving Sly's current resurgence - he's really showing everyone how it's done. God bless him.
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I've been there... wasn't all that dangerous. The most dangerous thing there were the drivers. Muevate! Then again, I'm not rich or a woman or a policeman or a rival drug lord.
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I was worried about " some creature "
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I never liked the idea of Rambo vs. Universal Soldier.<p>I wouldn't mind seeing Rambo vs. one of the two other guys Trautman said were capable of completing the mission from Rambo II, though.
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Its not ingenious. It was a stupid idea that struck of desperation.
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Nov. 12, 2009, 10:46 a.m. CST
That Rambo vs. Beast movie will still be made by Stallone...
by Chakraborty
..., I'll bet, except the character played by Sly will be named Jim Hambone, and will be a former Navy Seal.
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Nov. 12, 2009, 10:49 a.m. CST
Harry Knowles and the always delayed Dvd report
by supercowbell5THECOWBELLHASSPOKEN
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Nov. 12, 2009, 10:50 a.m. CST
AICN wars episode 1: the phantom Dvd column
by supercowbell5THECOWBELLHASSPOKEN
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Because as we all know, despite his name, Flippy doesn't like them. Not. One. Bit.
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Rambo versus the Mexican Femicide. Cool.
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It seems you really do pay attention, no 50cent and now this. I admit seeing the sci/fi Rambo would have been interesting but I'm with the others above, use a new character for that Hunter movie now.<p> Your going to laugh at this but how about maybe make him gay? Think about it how ahead of the curve that would be, he dosen't have to be a fairy, but just a bad ass hunter, who just happens to be a homosexual, I'm serious. High, but serious.
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...needs to go there to. I would not mind if he brings the other surviving Mercs back to. But Schoolboy needs to be in the new movie.
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Nov. 12, 2009, 10:51 a.m. CST
Lord of the dvd releases: the fellowship of the missing DVD colu
by supercowbell5THECOWBELLHASSPOKEN
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For all its fanciful violence, the Rambo series has always been grounded in real world situations. I would still see Sly vs. the Monster, though -- a new Stallone franchise to out-Predator the Predator.
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Nov. 12, 2009, 10:53 a.m. CST
Clash of the late DVD reports: DVDS WILL CLASH
by supercowbell5THECOWBELLHASSPOKEN
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The previously thought out Rambo 5 plot was pure trash waiting to happen and we all know it. I mean if they market it as a "Rambo 5:Alternate Reality" that might win the fans over much more and the critics, but seriously hunting a genetically engineered manbeast was just stupid. Thank you Sly for listening to your fans, since we are the people who make the studios pocketbooks fill with our monies at the theatres.
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No contest, the DVD column wouldn't show up for the fight. Then the next week, the column would fight two half-ass fights to make up for it. Then the column would go another two weeks without fighting. The column has a bad, sweaty, fat and lazy manager.
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would be pretty great, actually, although Anton Chigurh would be better.
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like some other people. as long as we still get to see it i'll be happy. seeing as predators looks like it's gonna be fucking shit.
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If Rambo turned out to be gay, that would seriously fuck with the heads of all those right-wing homophobic guys watching it in the theater. It would be like that scene in Bruno...one of them would have tears running down his face.
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...out of pure curiosity.<P>How about make them both on the sly?...then sit down with me for a screening...have some beers, flick the poo...we'll decide which one to release.
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THANK YOU SYLVESTER STALLONE! That said, I have no problem seeing Sly do the Rage Monster movie, too. I was never against that. I was just against RAMBO doing that! SILENT RAGE is a good example, and I fucking love SILENT RAGE despite it being a dreadful, dreadful awful movie.
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I hope that's an indication that Stallone's new vision for Rambo V is to turn it into a deliberately paced, artfully shot character study in the tradition of Malick, Kubrick and Altman.
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and then at the very end of the film he turns to the camera and says,"Oh by the way, I'm gay!" He then proceeds to suck a dude's dick. Roll credits.
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For listening to reasoned arguments without hubris,(not something i think you see a lot of in the movie industry...)
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Nov. 12, 2009, 11:05 a.m. CST
...does this have anything to do with Lou Dobbs resigning?...
by FlickaPoo
...that dude fucking HATES Mexico.
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haha, that would be great, but I really do mean it for that sci/fi Hunter movie. I think the time is right, we need a gay action hero, it would push Sly as an actor, make for an interesting level to what could be a dull story, he could have an ex-family too even, again he dosen't have to be a flaming queen, just so-happens to be a gay ex-navy seal, and yea it would be great to see a redneck cry at his beloved Sly loving the man-fat.<p>DO IT SLY
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Nothing is more gay than a straight guy running around the woods with no top on...also sitting there watching it for that matter. Don't get me wrong. I love it!
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Nov. 12, 2009, 11:10 a.m. CST
...and I thught WE were Stallone's "zone". What the fuck?
by FlickaPoo
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and my family's from there! That country's gone to hell.
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Ha exactlly everyone says "o action movies are gay" well, we'll show them gay eh?
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Definitly prefer Rambo being grounded in the real-world and fighting the fight we all wish we could.<p> Hopefully, your other idea will be made minus Rambo, and maybe use a different lead to avoid the Rambo-likeness?
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First, a caveat: I'm not a homophobic redneck. I don't see why it matters at all what Rambo's sexual preference is. To me, it would be on par with the whole Dumbledore-is-gay thing. It served no purpose, story-wise, so why even bring it up? Unless, there's some relevant plot point that requires us to know his sexuality, then don't even mention it. Did anyone question Chewbacca's sexuality? Did it matter? If Chewie was gay, does that mean Han might have been gay/bi and/or into gay beastiality? Doesn't really make a difference one way or the other. It's just gayness for the sake of gayness... because it's "in" to be gay right now.
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Nov. 12, 2009, 11:16 a.m. CST
CharyouTree, Hotfuzz beat you to it
by Player_Two_has_entered_the_game
player two has left the game
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Just to make the coming apocalypse a little more apocalypcious.
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The Demolition Man versus The Creature. Do it Sly!
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whatever
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Let the carnage continue!! Sly, I admire the work you do. Writing, directing, acting. You are the man!
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I was looking forward to Rambo vs. Armus: Vagra II Revisited
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A friend actually said that to me once, he only watched it a couple of years ago for some unkown reason, he shrugged said it was ok but felt very gay. I slapt him in the face bent him over and buggered him the cheeky bastard. ok?, it's fucking brilliant.
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Wow. Couldn't disagree more. Sounded like the lamest idea for a Rambo movie possible. Ah, well - diff'rent strokes and all . . .
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Nov. 12, 2009, 11:26 a.m. CST
Underworld 6.0: John McClane vs. Man/Beast
by Rage_Against_Martin_Sheen
"Welcome to the party, pal!"
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Geez, someone should teach Rambo's villains how to aim a gun.
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Glad Rambo 5 is getting done though!
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wanting to control your own nation's border makes you anti-anything. Every other country in the world has the right to control its borders but not the US? WTF?
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But Trautman was. I mean, he moves like Felix Unger and he's always wearing a cravat and a beret and when he goes to the bar with Brian Dennehy he orders a big glass of brandy.
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Done the same thing before Rambo 4, the Mexico human trafficing angle being the proposed plot initially. In interviews Stallone just seems to go on about ideas he has for the next flick before actually having commited to any one story.
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That sounded so incredibly ridiculous. Guess he's going back to the Mexican drug cartel and apparently prostitution ring idea. WAY better suited for Rambo. Now I'm really excited! Also cool that the beast film is going forward with a different character because that sounded interesting, it just wasn't Rambo's world.
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Nov. 12, 2009, 11:40 a.m. CST
Just to be clear I think his new character should be gay
by CharyouTree
not Rambo.
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To the left, if you want to control your own borders...this makes you a hater. Plain and simple.<p>Oh, and the same guy who trained Lucas' stormtroopers trained Rambo's enemies. :)
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This NEEDS to happen!!!
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YES GREAT NEWS!<p> The ONLY people who thought this godawful man-beast shit was a good idea were the fucking AICN staff writers, Harry and Merrick.<p> And they're supposed to be the experts, what a joke. Thank god Sly reads talkbacks....
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... I would just rather see Rambo vs Mexican drug lords/human traffickers. Is that so wrong?
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We just found out that Rambo 5 is going to be awesome and all people can talk about is turning characters gay. Idiots need to put the crack pipe down. <p> I'd like to think TBers had something to do with this decision since everybody here was appalled by the idea of Rambo vs. Predator or whatever shit that was. I wonder why Sly chose to tell Stallone Zone instead of his best friend Harry. Maybe he doesn't like us anymore.
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We just saw "Taken". Been there done that, and it's the wrong premise for Rambo. He needs to fight on a grand scale, but grounded in today's reality of Bond and Bourne. And Sly, don't mistake our criticism for anything but constructive. We grew up on Rambo and only have man love repect for you.
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To the gates of hell and back, literally meaning if he had Rambo fight the biblical satan I would be there opening night. The last one was almost as great as First Blood. I suggest going with a title that does not include the name Rambo. We all know the face on the poster will be and thats bad ass enough.
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avpgalaxy.net It really sucks.
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It's important that Rambo takes care of current affairs. Mexican druglords truly deserve a dose of Rambo! The other storyline just didn't feel right for him.
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the only way to go
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I'm glad Sly has finally embraced his B movie action roots, but he really needs to stop second-guessing his every move because of Talkbacks. It's beginning to get a little sad. For anyone who hasn't figured it out yet, pretty much ANY idea is going to be championed here- provided it falls within the narrow confines of what has gone before. Thank God message boards- and this kind of mentality- weren't around in the 80s, or half the stuff that is still worshipped would've been nixed by unimaginative fanboys.
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Remember when jackman said they were doing re-shoots to make wolverine better? And btw I have a friend who's mom was a molly maid for the extra who sucked the penis of the script writer hired to polish stallone's scripts and they said SPOILER that the man/beast in Rambo 5 is the dead black guy rambo went to go visit at the beginning of FIRST BLOOD and his female relative told him he's dead. His death was just a cover up so they can experiment on him. He's mad that Rambo and Richard Crenna didn't save him from being experimented on.
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I'd watch.
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Like it's split up into two plotlines, one guy hunting the monster and Rambo taking care of business in this border town? I'm almost halfway done Hunter, the novel it was based on, and there's a decent Rambo / monster movie in it. All those AICN bitchers were just that... bitching. I wanted to see this flick.
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Ciudad Juarezz,a real life mexican border city where over the years(real story) mexican women hae dissapeared or found dead,all women that have been found dead had black hair,and they were kinda gorgeous,remember Rambo was going to be in the Mexican border,so this is the story Rambo goes to ciudad Juarez
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No. The Mexico plotline was originally considered for Rambo 4. Then people complained and it got put on the backburner. Then it was going to be used for Rambo 5, but people complained, and the "Savage Hunt" plot was trotted out. But then people complained...
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...a badass vs. monster movie done by Sly, and also another Rambo in the same vein as the last one, without the sci-fi monster. So, hey, make both, and nobody can complain.* <p> *OK, being AICN, someone will still complain... but who cares.
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Thanks for hearing the fans our and reconsidering Stallone. Much obliged. I can't wait.
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Vin Diesel.
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Definitely the smart move, I was getting a bit worried. I think Rambo4 was a truly original, strong fucking realistic movie and any thing other than ULTRA reality would undo that artistic credibility you worked so hard to reintroduce to the saga. I'm all for a separate movie with sci-fi overtones but NOT Rambo. Good!
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There have been numerous abductions of young women from the U.S. into Mexico by these drug families. It's a worthy story and based on the real-life accounts of what these criminals do to their victims, it will be ridiculously R-rated and intense.
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. . . we've ALL been waiting for. Hells YEAH!!!
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If Sly makes this Rambo movie that takes place in Mexico, it's billed and marketed about Rambo versus this violent Mexican city, and all the Sly fans fill the theaters opening weekend, and half-way through the movie a BEAST starts attacking characters in the movie....so it's Rambo versus the overlords AND the Beast...but it's kept secret until the movie opens. Essentially, it would be a Predator rip-off starring Rambo...but it would still be pretty bad-ass.
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...for the very special two part episode where he has to face an evil doppelganger RAMBO.<P>Inner demons would be faced.<P>Lessons would be learned.
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...what is Rambo willing to cut off?<P>Gotta be willing to take it further.
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HERE'S AN IDEA - LET'S BOYCOTT PRODUCTS ADVERTISED BY THOSE FUCKING POP-UP ADS ON THE FRONT PAGE OF AICN WHICH OBSCURE THE LINKS TO THE ARTICLES YOU ARE TRYING TO READ. (THE TERMINATOR SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES AD FOR EXAMPLE)
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whatever you do man, I'm there.
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...and Titans would Clash!
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...it was fake news. OBVIOUSLY, I mean that was the gayest straight to dvd shit story idea I'd ever heard, and some people actually thought it was "cool"...(sigh). I would be skeptical if this news was even real, based on that, but I hope it is cuz this is the story Sly was originally considering, and it sounds like a good idea. Hope it works out, the last Rambo was badass.
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Nov. 12, 2009, 1:32 p.m. CST
...clash with the peculiar sound of dick veins hitting muscle...
by FlickaPoo
...at eye of the tiger miles per hour.
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As long as Rambo kills people real good, I'll be there.
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I mean really. That's just silly, even for Rambo.
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He is out there investigating the abduction of his neighbors daughter when BLAM he gets attacked by the chupacabra.!
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give us back our womens!
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"Don't you dare touch that ice cream"...thud...big bamboo spiked thing comes up and impales Hoffman
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Didnt like that first idea one bit. Keep Rambo's feet on the ground Sly. Lets have some really nasty bad guys, just human really nasty bad guys !
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...a Mormon POW style camp for hot chicks. You know that's where they keep them.<P>The head Mormon guy that runs the camp is a sadistic bastard and gets arms and logistical support from the Russians. <P> No, maybe the North Koreans this time...they know a thing or two about camp building.
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So---it appears that Sly's been reading Punisher Max. Can't blame him for "borrowing" the story, it fits Rambo's character as well as Frank Castle's.
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http://tinyurl.com/yez5ulr
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Nov. 12, 2009, 1:53 p.m. CST
sly u r great- make found video great rambo vs emo vampires!
by alice133
and then make rambo fans demand it get wide release = $$$$$$$$$$$!
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Rambo Vs Nixon.<p> "Im saying when the president does it, it's not illegal" Nixon<p> "Nah. Yu shudda said EX-President.." Rambo unloads M60 into Nixon's face.
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You stop annoying us even more than ad's by WRITING IN CAPS!
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who rambo beheads with a ragged 2x4. don't ask how. its a surprise.
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Nov. 12, 2009, 2 p.m. CST
...and Rambo can't be gay. That's just silly. Everyone knows..
by FlickaPoo
...Rambo orgasms by penetrating bad guys... <P> <P> ...with his knife. Or an exploding arrow.<P>And he makes his own hole.
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That is a great move on slys part, makeing a new character to fight a beast and a new RAMBO MOVIE! ROCK!
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You heard it here first!!!
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Him going to Mexico and fucking up fools down there is something we all want. The monster idea was too out there. I would have been behind it if Rambo went after a guy who is like him and went crazy. Oh well Rambo vs. Mexico is something I just want yay!
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Wonder if Rambo's teenage sidekick Beau Brady from the old synopsis has also been axed?<p> Rambo and Beau go to Mexico. Now THAT sounds gay.
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Nov. 12, 2009, 2:23 p.m. CST
...obviously though, Rambo needs to go back to Afghanistan...
by FlickaPoo
...he was there in number three to help the Taliban and Bin Laden beat up on the Soviets. Seemed like a reasonable idea at the time.<P> Now it's time to go back and say "WHAT THE FUCK? Rambo is going to fuck you now...and RAMBO MAKES HIS OWN HOLE"<P>Or maybe just a one on one game to the death of dead-goat-ball polo with Bin Laden.<P> Either way, we've got blow back from his first trip ...time to go back and straighten that shit out.
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Really, that idea Rambo vs. Monster was total crap. Sounded very cheesy and Un-Rambo-like!
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I would watch the fuck out of that
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That's all I got.
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Rambo kicking mexican cartel ass is the better story. Especially if he does it against the wishes of the pussy State Dept.
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Way to save the series Sly! And I'll go see BOTH movies when they come out :-D
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...RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART TWO were real missing soldiers. I'm thinking they were a bunch of senator's kids from the Yale School of Management who got busted by the Vietnamese for running some sort of porn ring specializing in Asians.<P>They just told Rambo the cover story and sent him in...little did they imagine he would succeed...
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I'm glad that Stallone is keeping things somewhat based in reality instead of going off into sci-fi territory. Plus, Arnold already did that with "Predator"
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I'm glad he got rid of the Sci-Fi movie of the week plot and is going real. Mexico's really brutal now with the crazy drug war going on down there, it's worth a look. Another option is Columbia, heck even Venezuela.
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Enjoy your reign, sir!
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Quite simply, good move. Keep Rambo in the non-Sci Fi action arena. A Rambo "Man on Fire" type movie would be nice. The difference being Rambo is not on "fire", but instead, "Nuclear".
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This is good news. Man/Beast thing was fucktarded.
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Looks like we might be getting ol' Rambo kicking dirty sex trafficing bastard's arses after all, now.<P>Good call Sly. The 'beast' idea just didn't fly with me personally, but I'll look forward to any SEPERATE movie that has that as it's premise.<P>Sounds like Rambo franchise is back on track though!
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...shit, now I have stage fright. <P>Well, I'm off to rehab for "exhaustion"...see if I can stage a comeback after the dust settles. <P>Cheers.
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I am sure a large part of it has to do with my youth, never was a big fan of his movies. However, if he wasn't washed up he would have nothing to do with this site. I am not trying to rain on anyone's parade, I'm just saying...
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Nov. 12, 2009, 2:56 p.m. CST
Rambo 3 Part 2, I agree, would be more interesting (and challeng
by JasonPratt
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I mean, do we really need a new Stallone character for this movie? His ouvre of memorable characters is pretty thin. (Demolition Man John Spartan vs. Man-Beast might actually be worth paying money to see, simply for the juxtoposition with the story-world though.)
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Lord, I can't stop laughing on that one...! It gets better every time I think about it!
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..."THREE'S WILL BE...TWO'D!!
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wrote an epilogue to 2666 in which Rambo retires to Santa Teresa & winds up having to clean house.
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Slys listening to the fanboys too much. The man beast thing at least sounded interesting.
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Sly is genetically engineered creature of unspeakable awfulness<p> We already knew that<br> Where's the news
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Mexico makes WAY more geopolitical sense for a Rambo movie. Just be careful about using too many cardboard villains. Politics in Mexico is way too complicated for a straight-ahead "good guys" vs. "bad guys" movie.
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Sly can hang out at my place whenever he wants
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Shit, this crowd thinks Watchmen is good.
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when you rub your tongue up aginst your pallet<p> And a flavor has a sound and sometimes a color<p> That word is deranged
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He's given us so much<p> Is that so little to ask in return?
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Thank god! That predator thing sounded, uhmmm... Ridiculous. I sensed a little sarcasm in your retort Merrick. Don't encourage Stallone he doesn't know your joking.
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Demolition Man 2. Wonder what the man/beast would do to Sandra Bullock.
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rod ramit
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Stallone.KimboSlice.<br><br>This summer you have the right to .. BEAR ARMZ.<br><Br>
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and having just watched Rambo (4) for the third time the other night (and just shaking my head at what a superb action film it is), I say BRING ON RAMBO 5! Take on those brutal Mexican drug cartels Sly. I can't wait. The only thing I'd suggest is that you give Rambo more dialogue this time. He's a powerful character when he pours his heart out.
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Nov. 12, 2009, 3:35 p.m. CST
Don't forget the PUSSY & Smarts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Illuminate
Good going Sly. The book sounds like it would make a great movie with a different character as I had mentioned. I'm hoping you create a cooool character for that book-movie. Concerning Rambo, I just watched Rambo 3 on cable again. That stick fight was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We all know how much of a bad mother fucker Rambo is after the last movie. I always thought of a Rambo movie as half Braveheart. What I'm saying is that Rambo rips the shit out of the villains who deserve it and it's war of course. However, Braveheart also showed Gibson's romantic side and his witty side. In Rambo 2 we got to see a hint of it but only a few minutes. If you want to bring in the female audience as well as guys who like ass kicking than I would concider writing romance. As for Rambo's witt. It really wasn't expressed as much in the last movie. You have to be super intellegent to out wit the bad guys and it would be great for you to write it in the screen play. As I reccall you won an Oscar for writing Rocky therefore you are more than qualified to give Rambo smart dialogue while also keeping to the bad ass character. I don't know how I feel about mexico. It's a great country with great people. But, it's not exactly glamorous like Europe or war looking like the middle east. In any case I'm there on opening day man. I hope you also decided to remove the younger solders. We don't care about watching younger kids. Rambo is like Batman. We want to see Batman and not a bunch of boring side kick soldiers. Which is a huge compliment toward you Sly. Also, the last movie looked no where near as big in scale as part 2 or 3. I know your budget is smaller since you are not making it with one of the major studios. However, perhaps you could bring Robert Rodriguez's studio into the mix. They take a movie with half a budget of studio movies and make the scale huge. Since you were in Spy Kids than perhaps you could make use of that contact. I'm not saying bring Rodriguez in as Director or Producer. But, just to hire his company for visual fx, location and etc. Again, we all have your back Sly. I can't wait until your next movie. If you go the Braveheart route than you could have an Oscar winning movie on your hands. Man would that shock poeple. "Rambo nominated for an academy Award!!!!" It isn't impossible. You've done it with the first Rocky and Rambo is just as good as Braveheart accept no one knows it yet ; )
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Couldn't agree more. Imagine if Rocky IV were made now. "Rocky takes on the Russians?! That's the most ridiculous idea!" Of course it's ridiculous. And that's part of it's charm. A lot of these fanboys just want their childhoods replayed in an endless loop.
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Much better
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can be played by Weseley Snipes in the DEMOLITION MAN sequel (he needs the cash I bet.)<p>John Spartan is BACK...and still demolishing!
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I'll sign of on that<p> Sounds American
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but if you fumble<p> I don't know you
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What's with all the gay shit. I'm not against gays. However, way to distract a thread guys. I want to see Rambo fucking a hot chick doggy style while shooting his machine gun in the air while the chick orgasms and says, "You really know how to use a gun!!!!" lol Rambo is rated R, the fuck scene in The Specialist was lame. Put, a Basic Instinct type fuck scene in the next movie and I will be in theaters twice. Don't forget to make sure the chick is hot and as Eddie Murphy said in 48 Hours, that she as "...Big Giant Titties" : )
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Internet chat is a super fun web activity!
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I saw “First Blood,” and “First Blood Part II.” Then suddenly out of nowhere “Rambo III” shows up (I’m thinking Rambo 3, where are Rambo 1 and 2? Thankfully Stallone filled in some of the blanks with “Rambo.” By my count, we still need an official “Rambo II” to close things out – although I’m still a bit concerned with the continuity issues, how did Rambo get from Burma to Afghanistan? And where was Col. Trautman in Rambo? It’s all very confusing. An while we’re at it, where are the first 9 films in the “Malcolm” series?
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Crossing that fan threshold into outright creepy- I think it has to do with a falsly assumed sense of intimacy.
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Partially joking in my previous comment well about the machine gun in the air. That's to comedic. But, you get what I mean. A great fuck, oh I mean "love scene" would even turn the chicks on.
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you lazy bastard
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Am I the only one who thought Rambo 4 was a good ending to the series?
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I'm up for another three Rambo movies. Rambo is awesome!!!! All joking asside that was in my previous two comments. I would add sincere Romance to Rambo like in The Terminator or Braveheart. It will add more dramatic depth to the character.
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... keep the character grounded in reality, no need to get sci-fi with Rambo. Sure that movie could have been cool, but I'd rather it be this way.
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Really, I like Sly working on a Predator-ish film, but it would be pretty damn hard to make this a Rambo film that didn't jump the shark and nuke the fridge. Not sure about the new direction yet, but hopefully as things evolve we will get back to that American Rambo adventure people have been murmuring about for awhile now.
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Huuunngh! Need moar crack!
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but there a whole lot of legal issues that prevent me from doing so
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Come on sly. I am not inspired by this. Don't lose momentum.
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I'm willing to bet that's how Sylvester Stallone ends all his emails.
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Sly just keeps showin up
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Next summer...<P>5<P>WILL<P> BE<P>BLOOD!
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Wise decision.
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...this'll work. I was one of those who preferred that Sly let Rambo enjoy his well-deserved rest. But I cannot deny that I will be in line for anything Stallone does with Johnny R. Hopefully he'll be slaughtering copious kidnapping/drug cartel bastards by the truckfull! Bring it on Sly!!
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That hunter/man-beast story will be good too but not for Rambo.
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Remember, your third round of rehab is free! :)
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that slices off a head.
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as only you can<[> Thanks buddy
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I assume that NU IMAGE will finance a HUNTER film seperate and apart from RAMBO 5...if so this IS GREAT FUCKING NEWS!!!! So we get RAMBO and HUNTER. Fans win either way! :)
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No? <P> Okay, it needs work.
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litle miss, little miss<p> Can't pay her taxes
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sgt. joe bomowski goes to the pacific northwest to track down his mom who has been genetically mutated into a really bad shot.
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Awesome.
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Why it gets unequivocal praise here I'll never know. Yes, it had great 80's ultra-violence, but it wasn't a particularly good movie. Horrible pro-Born Again Christian message. Cartoonish mercs, especially that Cockney one straight from a Guy Ritchie movie. Too short to really flesh anything out. Not as good as Rocky Balboa.<p>Stallone gets a free pass around here because of his (admittedly awesome) Q and A sessions of a few years back, but he is a vey inconsistent writer/director. Many of his films were outright garbage - Cobra, Lock Up, Rocky 5, The Specialist, Over the Top, etc. Cheesy fun but never too good (and make no mistake he ghost wrote/directed many of these affairs. He never really had Arnold's quality control as far as action movie were concerned (well, up to 94 for Arnold). <p>So Rambo 5 could go either way - and probably towards the negative. Only First Blood was a really great Rambo movie. 2 was average, and 3 was shit-on-a-shinola. 4-again, average. Don't get me wrong, I like Sly, but let's be real.
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Rambo 5 is going to be awesome. I can't wait to see some dead Mexicans.
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was the original title for Predator. So Stallone is laying on the obvious similarities a bit thick there.
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They didn't make Dumbledore gay after the fact. Rowling had the character's backstory from the very beginning. She did bios beginning-to-end of all the characters. That was Dumbledore's great tragedy, that he fell in love with the wrong man and let love blind him to the truth.
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Yeah, but did it add anything to the story? No.
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The other idea made no sense. Keep "Hunter" as a stand alone and have Rambo kick ass like we want him to. Still think Sly should play the tough as nails Green beret sergeant in Hunter.
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thank you mr stallone for not doing this,thank you.
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sez the guy in powder blue short shorts
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Sly didn't just look at me and say "You're *The One*"<p> Squeeeeeeee
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The Rambo franchise, though great fun, has absolutely nothing to do with reality. It matters not one whit whether Rambo fights terrorists or pterodactyls, it's all the same loopy over the top fantasy action flick fun.
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Rambo is sent in to Monopoly City to free people from their rent controlled nightmares.
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Nov. 12, 2009, 5:25 p.m. CST
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by Internet_Chat_Helper
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Sly we want better than that.
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I accuse Sylvester Stalone of being a story teller<p> A Story teller most foul<p> That he did willfully and knowingly create and propagate fictional stories of so called heroes<p> Let him stand forth and face these charges<br> If he dare
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directed by Ingmar Bergman
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Deep down here - buried in the comments - I must thank you Sly for taking this perfect decision. The alien film seemed like a great thing on its own. I hope you can pull it off like you intend to. And I want another Rambo film as well. But Rambo is and should be a product of real cruelty, not symbolistic sci-fi harshness.
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Rambo showed those little brown fellas who was boss in RAMBO. Now let's see what he does tho those filthy Mexicans.
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I still think this is doable<br> We just need to get the right face<p> Is that blomde guy busy?<br> You know, the one with the profile<p>
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thus spake the doom of comic book movies
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It's those filthy Mexicans who are after our fine, pure white women now?
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You just made my day. That sounded so bad ass... Just make sure you tap some of that latina ass you sexual serpent you!
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This might be a good thing. Although I was digging that idea, it could have went bad real fast.
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Rambo V some Beast???? ... ULTIMATE fail.
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That's some dark shit, man.
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I'd love to see Rambo in a 'Gran Torino' style story set on his own door step.
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Now make it gory
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Sly and JAMES CAMERON are smart coming to AICN. AICN is still the powerhouse on the net and can help a movies BOX-OFFICE. What other site can you claim that with?
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I hope he takes his time to really polish the script and/or stop making changes to it on the fly.
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This works for me. Fuck that other bullshit. That can be the sequel to either Demolition Man or Tango & Cash, but NOT Rambo! Juarez is the MOST violent city on this side of the world and 2nd overall. Mogadishu is #1. It makes sense that Rambo will fuck shit up in Juarez. Expect a nice heaping serving of the good ol' ultraviolence...
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Glad this story change doesn't affect the start date for RAMBO 5. Production is still set to begin in February or March of 2010. Can't wait to see the cast........
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dewd retired to one of those places where the wimmen ai't got no tops
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"fury, intelligence, and pure, unadulterated rage?"
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And add mine to them. Honestly, the man vs. super-soldier idea sounds like it'd be a cool movie, but it just sounds too far out for Rambo. I like the fact that Rambo is (kinda) grounded in reality, and I especially felt that way about the last movie. If Rambo 5 is about John beating the crap out of slave-traders then bring it on! I look forward to him blowing up more scum of the earth.
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there is no god
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Nov. 12, 2009, 7:40 p.m. CST
That's because the new lead to fight the monster is BIG LOB...
by GibsonUSA Returns
...right? <BR><BR>Shortest movie ever.
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stop trying to please the assholes on Aintitcoolnews and just make the movie he wants.
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Yeah, Rambo would have been heading into Rocky IV territory in terms on unbelievability -- but I LOVE Rocky IV!!! Seriously, Rambo is a tired series and this sounded like one awesome challenge. There's no way that, if done right, it would have grossed more money than the last Rambo regardless of the unrealistic scenario. The same story but attached to a different character will NEVER be as interesting.
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Nov. 12, 2009, 7:47 p.m. CST
Will Jackie Chan play the highway toll booth collector?
by GibsonUSA Returns
Taking dollar bills and returning 25 cents at the 75 cent stop when the bad guy's Hummer blasts through, and somehow he ends up hanging onto the rear bumper...while Rambo's Mustang gives chase?
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Loved RAMBO 4. I hope the next one includes John Rambo's father! We were ready to see a sequel right when the last one ended.
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Good work, guys. We fixed it. *hugs everyone*
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What will be the new subtitle?
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Rambo 4 did something that really sold it for me... it had an aged quality to it. not a simple rehash, or even a continuation of the ridiculous path it was heading from 2 and 3. it really felt like a john rambo of the first film continued story. I'd love to see 5 have a feel of retirement and comfort zone of all that horror being done and in the past.... however, circumstances force old habbits to return, only this time with a real anger and reluctance. Rambo 4 was so good!
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Nov. 12, 2009, 8:40 p.m. CST
Have Rambo hanging from a helicopter as tribute to R1.
by GibsonUSA Returns
It would be awesome to see Rambo hanging from a helicopter in the new movie, or shooting someone in the helicopter from the ground, as tribute to the first movie.
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good for him<p> the elderly should keep occupied
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I'd rather have Rambo in the real world, revealing a crisis not really being covered by the national media. The other story sounds good, as a separate entity. <p> Good call, Sly!
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Magic Penis Make Happy Sky
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I am glad to see that you picked up on that it wasn't people hated the man\beast story. They hated that Rambo had no place in that sci-fi horror world. Rambo fights real life horror, and sending him in to fight human traffikers is the way to go! I also look forward to seeing a new character face the man\beast. Maybe instead of having this guy being "sent in", instead he's just a guy hunting with his friend when they stumble into the total FUBAR that was this ill fated government project that produced man\beast. And to differ this new character from Rambo visually, how about growing a beard?
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1) RAMBO 5, 2) THE EXPENDABLES, 3) HUNTER, 4) POE, 5) THE EXPENDABLES 2..........not including the 4th RAMBO movie.
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If they have less Rambo and more donkey-latina action it will be ok.
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stop smoking the pole you crackhead.
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Buenos Nachos<p> I don't *get it*<p> But then I'm in sock puppet hell
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Rambo doesn't need Sci Fi BS to be the shit and I'd rather pay for two good movies than pay for one movie I'm not entirely sold on. Bravo for being one of the few smart people left making movies. Maybe you should help them out with the Monopoly movie.
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He should be called into help some small town deal with a Rambo type younger Iraq vet that's gone ape shit and hiding out in the mountains outside town.
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Now that would be a movie!!!!
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That's genius. No bullshit.
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I wasn't to excited about the man/bear/pig story anyway. Loved Rambo, Rambo V is gonna be sweet.
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Two kick ass Sly action movies instead of one. Sweet.
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For those who read the leaked script, what is so bad?
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After he left CNN, Lou Dobbs went across the border to kill all the Mexican women to stop the birth of future illegal aliens! What an A-hole! Gut him Rambo!!
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I agree that would be trippy.
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Please teach some sort of self-awareness class to everyone else in Hollywood.
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That'll be something to see. "No, senor. No women disappear here. Right, Rita? Rita? Rita...?" Although "Predambo" would have been interesting.
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Rambo vs. supersoldier/mutant/genetic lab monster whatever sounds like a terrible idea. Indy 4 terrible. Superman 4 terrible. He might as well hunt Alien/Predator or Freddie or Jason or something.
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Crossing Rambo with a sci-fi premis was a bad move and I'm gald that Stallone has realized this.
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I'll never, EVER, take you seriously again. It was fucking retarded, and Sly knows it.
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Hmmmmm....Rambo vs. a giant beast? PREDATOR? Stick with the second idea. The giant beast thing is just stupid and makes it more unbelievable.
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Hopefully it'll raise awareness of what's going on next door. Thousands of women disappearing (and being found murdered) in Mexican border towns. Drug lords ruling the streets. And America has a finger in the pie, no doubt about it. Hopefully Rambo disembowells both the Mexicans and Americans responsible. Vaya con dios, Sly!
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is the fact that he is generating his own projects and getting them funded, instead of relying on the tired studio system. If he relied on that he'd never get any decent parts considering his age and how his style of action has gone out of style (to be replaced by shakey-cam, uber-'realistic' bullshit, unfortunately). Or if he did they'd be watered down crap. So I definitely admire his ability to take charge of his career and create stuff, and sometimes he hits gold. That's how he got his start with the original Rocky, when he was already in danger of becoming a bit part z-list actor, already washed up at 30. <p>Anyaway, by splitting this Rambo 5 idea into a separate movie (and maybe possible franchise), as well as the actual Rambo 5, it simply gives him another project and potentially iconic character to play with. Perhaps there could be a series of these 'Hunter' films, with this guy tracking down different adversaries. <p>So now Sly has a possible Expendables franchise, further Rambos, this man-beast film, and other projects like the Death Wish re-make and Poe.<p>Now as regards Rambo 5 - make this a kick-ass 'revenge' film. I see this as being like Man on Fire, only without Tony Scott's annoying shakey cam,schizo editing crap. Similarities to Taken as well (which was actually good). And even though they were good, Stallone is a badder motherfucker than Denzel and Neeson. So I want to see Stallone rescuing these kidnapped women and raising hell, slicing, shooting and even torturing his way through drug lords, sex traffickers, and gangsters down in Mexico. I'm sure he'll deliver that - just remember to give us some meat on the bone plot-wise and thematically-wise this time out, something akin to the original First Blood (and maybe have Rambo display his smarts and cunning more like in that fist movie, as well.)
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is the fact that he is generating his own projects and getting them funded, instead of relying on the tired studio system. If he relied on that he'd never get any decent parts considering his age and how his style of action has gone out of style (to be replaced by shakey-cam, uber-'realistic' bullshit, unfortunately). Or if he did they'd be watered down crap. So I definitely admire his ability to take charge of his career and create stuff, and sometimes he hits gold. That's how he got his start with the original Rocky, when he was already in danger of becoming a bit part z-list actor, already washed up at 30. <p>Anyaway, by splitting this Rambo 5 idea into a separate movie (and maybe possible franchise), as well as the actual Rambo 5, it simply gives him another project and potentially iconic character to play with. Perhaps there could be a series of these 'Hunter' films, with this guy tracking down different adversaries. <p>So now Sly has a possible Expendables franchise, further Rambos, this man-beast film, and other projects like the Death Wish re-make and Poe.<p>Now as regards Rambo 5 - make this a kick-ass 'revenge' film. I see this as being like Man on Fire, only without Tony Scott's annoying shakey cam,schizo editing crap. Similarities to Taken as well (which was actually good). And even though they were good, Stallone is a badder motherfucker than Denzel and Neeson. So I want to see Stallone rescuing these kidnapped women and raising hell, slicing, shooting and even torturing his way through drug lords, sex traffickers, and gangsters down in Mexico. I'm sure he'll deliver that - just remember to give us some meat on the bone plot-wise and thematically-wise this time out, something akin to the original First Blood (and maybe have Rambo display his smarts and cunning more like in that first movie, as well.)
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You actually read that? What purpose does it serve?<BR><BR>Oh boy I got another DVD in the mail. ooo The extra bonus footage where we see Jake Gyllenhaal back in his trailer eating a sandwich is quite simply... amazing. I can't wait for te Bluray so we can actually see the individual deli meat slices! Is it turkey, or is it ham? CHUD claims it is actually roast beef, but a leaked copy of the catering list for the day only lists peanut butter. ( of course of Harry wrote that it would have to be in all caps and have 3 exclamation points minimum )
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He was on Oprah Winfrey promoting Tango and Cash and told the audience that Rambo 4 would be about Rambo saving the environment against corporate polluters......thank the heavens that he never went in that PC direction!!!
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Someone disenchanted with the military........I never liked the idea of him in a sci-fi movie, but I did like the idea of him being the hunter, instead of the hunted.
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having some kind of threat intrude and everything to kick off.
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Nov. 13, 2009, 8:12 a.m. CST
Hey, Sly, get the guy who wrote SHOOTER to save Rambo franchise
by ZombieHeathLedger
That guy could write the fuck out of a great RAMBO script (which SHOOTER should have been) for you.
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I thought it was a joke. Now I find out that it was being taken seriously?! What. The. Fuck. Until the Monopoly story, this was the shittiest most fucked up story I'd ever heard.
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...with TurdonthRrun. The last Rambo could've gone down in history as one of the great action flicks if the first half had been a little more solid. The dialogue was terrible and I just didn't buy Rambo's bitterness. He didn't seem like the "...Turns Blue" Rambo we knew before. If you get my meaning.
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Call it Predator!
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The whole Rambo vs monster idea was so preposterous that it would have worked, this new idea seems so formulaic, not saying I'm not happy to see Rambo again. <P> But consider my enthusiasm somewhat waned.
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sad news but hopefully he'll pick it up later.
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it put on airs of Tom Parker and then the talks broke down
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see if Kurt Russell's available, and instead of making Tango & Cash 2, get Bruce Campbell also and make the long awaited Rambo Vs. Snake Plissken Vs. Ash. If that aint a money maker, i don't know what is...
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Then again i didnt care much for the plight of the Burmese people either and i liked that movie. Anyway it does sound kinda formulaic if you ask me. Since we obviously dont care about that here is what i would do: Johns old friend (Kurt Russel) an old CIA operative is captured by the Talibans. Rambo having intimate knowledge of that area since before gets convinced to hook up with a colorful band of elite Delta Force operatives. The Delta guys think that old John is a liability and treats him like dead weight. Then all hell breaks loose and they see why Rambo is the best. Or Rambo travels to a remote village in Afghanistan when he finds out he fatherd a child during the events of (Rambo 3). The village gets purged by the Taliban and Rambo's kid gets killed. Rambo vowes revenge and start waging a one man war on the Talibans. Stalking them in the night, coming out of the clay hut walls like a ghost, traps in the sand, mountain warfare etc and the locals start telling legends of the invincible Rambo.
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You know... rambo can have a big climactic battle where he mounts a harley and charges against the sea-beast and actually JUMPS over him in an amazing display of pyrotechnics.<BR><BR> Naw... maybe a sea-beast is too much fantasy... how about a shark maybe? ;)
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I read that PREDATORS script, and I thought is was pretty cool, but am I alone in thinking Adrien Brody as the lead is a terrible idea? I could see him as the freaky serial killer guy, but the lead?
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how is that Sly update saying the man/beast won't be in the movie? It says using another character in the lead. Rambo himself. How is that saying there is no man/beast? Maybe I've just had too long of a day.
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The Predators. There's really only one. The others are some weird mutations who bleed black and have oversized mandibles and no noses (Wait..no noses?) and are on steroids (Which was the problem with AvP anyway). They also come across as shitty hunters. One has a freaking chaingun and SHOOTS BULLETS IN MID AIR and he doesn't shoot shit. Why would a Predator do that anyway? It's not even trying to hunt. Also, the ONE REAL Predator is tied up and when you think he's going to look batshit on the fakers he gets his ass handed to him. Complete bullshit. And let's not even mention the alternate ending! Okay, let's. Dutch is a Predator leader?
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Well, I thought the other idea had potential, but I thought it should have been about Rambo facing a younger, human version of himself who had gone down the wrong path without a Troutman to guide him back... You know, a young Iraq vet with post-tram. syndrome that Rambo needed to track down, but not kill...a lot of hand to hand fighting and tracking and booby-trapping in Canada. I think Rambo vs. monster could have worked, but I wasn't a big fan because it leaves the Rambo universe pseudo-reality (at least the bad guys are human) behind. However, I had confidence that Sly could pull off whatever he wanted and pull it off well. I'm a little disappointed with the Rambo vs. mexcan cartels idea cause it seems like a little re-hash of the past films, another rescue story. Rambo V was a great film, cause it had loads of over-the-top blood and guts action and felt more "real" than those 80's Rambo's (cept the first one). I think the Rambo vs. iraq vet is the best idea, cause it could actually give more character and drama, like the first Rambo. Rambo vs. Cartels, I have confidence will be a quality action movie, but we'll have to see if Sly can make it more than that. As for "Hunter" ...the Man vs Monster script, I'm glad that Sly has decided to go with the original character and script. That film deserves to be made on it's own merits. Of course, I don't really see why Sly couldn't just make a Rambo "non-canon" trilogy or something where it gets all ridiculous and he's fighting predator and whatever else monster he wants. I think if he came out and said "these are not canon films" and put a 10 second preface before the films saying they aren't "canon" films, fans would go nuts and love every minute of some dirty Rambo vs. monster films, just for the joyride. ...Kinda like Stallone could be making his "Predator" for the 2000's like arnuld did back with the original. Oh well, Sly, I've got confidence you can pull off whatever you want, but don't feel like you have to churn out another "rambo saves hostages" film again just to please fans. You should feel free to take some chances with the character, but you could see why Rambo vs monster freaked a lot of fans out. After such a kick-ass movie about the reality of war and Burma, you were going off into quasi sci-fi. I trusted you to pull it off, even though it "felt" a little weird, but a lot of people didn't trust the idea. I still say scrap the mexico idea, have rambo fighting a sympathetic, but dangerous character, a younger version of himself, tracking and fighting and hunting in the wild of canada or washington state. You'll get good reviews for taking chances, fans will like the throwback to the first Rambo, and you have a little more creative freedom than another rambo saves hostages movie would give you.
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The tribe has spoken!
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Never thought we would have so many RAMBO adventures.
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Nov. 13, 2009, 5:43 p.m. CST
over the border? - canada? - that would be different
by JimmyJoe RedSky
or is this story going to take advantage of the current anti-mexican zeitgeist - "rambo versus the white-slavers of cabo"
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... is it was already made - the movie was called "predator" - this script is "predator" with a super-soldier (universal soldier?) instead of an alien - originality is dead in hollywood
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You did get that the title was Metaphorical didn't ya?
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Admit that after that dude gets shot and the SupaPred mocks the chick with "Help Me!" that was fuckin cool
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and the best part of AVP was when the Predator does a reverse jam with the spear into the aliens head. He looked like Charles Barkley in theat scene.
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So im cool with anything he does as long as he does more Rambo movies im cool! lol :)
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... really thought Sly was about to piss away a lot of the good will/rep established with the last Rambo and Rocky Balboa. So, huge sigh of relief.<p>A non-Rambo version of the same story should rock, mind.<p>Now, if only Rambo 5 could give us some Brian Dennehy ...
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怒 symbol at Murdoch and turn him into a frog?
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I had a bad, bad feeling about the other direction.
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Just recently sitting at a Barnes and Noble coffee shop, I read a piece in the current issue of The Atlantic Monthly about the nearly-failed-state south of the border. <p> It's truly disturbing how, inside of a handful of years, Mexico has devolved into a semi-backwards country, second world country, into a place that comes off like Pakistan or Somalia; just complete and utter lawlessness, corrupt on the take army officers and cops, and wild west type shoot outs happening all over the country, in broad daylight, between rival drug gangs, with innocent people getting caught in the crossfire.
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Simpsons did it!
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...The Most Dangerous Game with The Prisoner. Rambo awakens on an island only to realize one of the most skilled hunters who ever lived is now the hunted. Add a dollop of jingoism and you're good to go.
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From what Stallone said earlier, it sure sounded like he was fucking with us... that the beast Rambo would hunt would end up being Rambo himself, and it would turn out that Rambo has basically gone Jeckyll and Hyde. I thought that might have been compelling, and a logical direction for Rambo's endgame. That said, I'd rather see Rambo stalking a good nemesis.
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Sly, I love ya!
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Nov. 15, 2009, 11:56 p.m. CST
Win that fucking Oscar Sly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Illuminate
Good going Sly. The book sounds like it would make a great movie with a different character as I had mentioned. I'm hoping you create a cooool character for that book-movie. Concerning Rambo, I just watched Rambo 3 on cable again. That stick fight was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We all know how much of a bad mother fucker Rambo is after the last movie. I always thought of a Rambo movie as half Braveheart. What I'm saying is that Rambo rips the shit out of the villains who deserve it and it's war of course. However, Braveheart also showed Gibson's romantic side and his witty side. In Rambo 2 we got to see a hint of it but only a few minutes. If you want to bring in the female audience as well as guys who like ass kicking than perhaps concider writing romance. Your the director and this could be your first movie with a real romance story since Rocky 1. Even better if you want to take it to epic emotions like Braveheart. As for Rambo's witt. It really wasn't expressed as much in the last movie. You have to be super intellegent to out wit the bad guys and it would be great for you to write it in the screen play. As I reccall you won an Oscar for writing Rocky therefore you are more than qualified to give Rambo smart dialogue while also keeping to the bad ass character. I don't know how I feel about mexico. It's a great country with great people. But, it's not exactly glamorous like Europe or bad ass war looking like the middle east. In any case I'm there on opening day man. I hope you also decided to remove the younger solders. We don't care about watching younger kids. Rambo is like Batman. We want to see Batman and not a bunch of boring side kicks. That was my least favorite part of the last movie. Which is a huge compliment toward you Sly. Also, the last movie looked no where near as big in scale as part 2 or 3. I know your budget is smaller since you are not making it with one of the major studios. However, perhaps you could bring Robert Rodriguez's studio into the mix. They take a movie with half a budget of studio movies and make the scale huge. Since you were in Spy Kids than perhaps you could make use of that contact. I'm not saying bring Rodriguez in as Director or Producer. But, just to hire or consult with his company for visual fx, location and etc. Again, we all have your back Sly. I can't wait until your next movie. If you go the Braveheart route than you could have an Oscar winning movie on your hands. Man would that shock poeple. "Rambo nominated for an academy Award!!!!" It isn't impossible. You've done it with the first Rocky and Rambo is just as good as Braveheart accept no one knows it yet ; )
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I think if he's going to make a fifth film it should be that he's taken a job as a deputy in a small town, and a unhinged young veteran loses it and wrecks havoc in his town. Basically flip the first movie's plot, except Rambo knows what he's going through. And I think the perfect end to this series (aside from part 4's) would be Rambo dying and getting a full military burial at Arlington. Just my two cents.
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