Rambo 5

[_____V_____]

Rejoice Mothman...;)


Sylvester Stallone really is doing another "Rambo" movie!

According to Screen Daily, "Rambo 5" looks to be shot in Bulgaria, using a massive new shingle - that they're building 10 new stages for - in Sofia. It is apparently one of the first films booked in to use the new stages.

Knowing it's going to be filmed in Bulgaria essentially voids most people's predictions that the next film would see Stallone back on home soil - USA.

[Despare]

Rejoice Mothman...;)


Sylvester Stallone really is doing another "Rambo" movie!

According to Screen Daily, "Rambo 5" looks to be shot in Bulgaria, using a massive new shingle - that they're building 10 new stages for - in Sofia. It is apparently one of the first films booked in to use the new stages.

Knowing it's going to be filmed in Bulgaria essentially voids most people's predictions that the next film would see Stallone back on home soil - USA.

Toldja... :p

[The Mothman]

omgomgomgomgomg.
way to go stallone.
at the end of the 4th film, he went back home, seemed like series closure. guess not.

[GorePhobia]

My guess.....

He gets home and sees his family has been murdered by Bolgerians looking for Rambo and he goes there to whoop some mother effin ass!!!

[_____V_____]

All guesses are wrong...even yours, Gore.;)


March 22, 2008


A couple of months back "Rambo" producer Harvey Weinstein mentioned he'd love to do a fifth installment in which the iconic character returns home to America (the ending of the latest film seems to set that up).

But when news came through last week that the fifth "Rambo" movie - seemingly on the fast track - would film in Bulgaria, most of us assumed that the plan of having Rambo on home soil had been abandoned for yet another away-from-home War tale.

Seems not.

Moviehole informs today that the next "Rambo" film will indeed be set in America - it's just more cost-effective to do it in Bulgaria.

Moviehole says, "The street sets of Bulgaria that are getting the makeover, the same ones that were rented out and used in Van Damme’s The Shepherd, will be doubling for Rambo’s hometown, which is supposed to be somewhere in Arizona."

In the past, Bulgaria has doubled as St. Petersburg, Russia (for "Hitman"), America (for "Lake Placid 2"), and Auschwitz (for "The Grey Zone"), for example. The terrain mostly plays home to a lot of those direct-to-DVD movies though - the ones featuring action lads such as Steven Seagal and Wesley Snipes.




Rejoice Rambo fans!:D

[The Mothman]

So...bulgarian terrorists attack america?
sounds like Invasion USA

[_____V_____]

Nope.

The plot is set in the US, only shooting will be done in Bulgaria...because its cheaper there.

[GorePhobia]

Awwww poonuts.

My plot rocked and you know it!

[Papillon Noir]

I'm surprised they are doing a 5th as I heard #4 didn't do so well.

[The Mothman]

UPDATE!!!
I guess stallone threw the old idea out the window. This one's way better. Apparently it was the original script for Rambo before he changed it.
from IMDB

"Rumors say the script will follow the original one written by Stallone for Rambo (2008), in which Rambo finds out he has a daughter and she has been kidnapped by a hostile cult, from which Rambo must rescue her."

kidnapped by a hostile cult?
you know this will be good.

[Despare]

UPDATE!!!
I guess stallone threw the old idea out the window. This one's way better. Apparently it was the original script for Rambo before he changed it.
from IMDB

"Rumors say the script will follow the original one written by Stallone for Rambo (2008), in which Rambo finds out he has a daughter and she has been kidnapped by a hostile cult, from which Rambo must rescue her."

kidnapped by a hostile cult?
you know this will be good.

It better be a HUGE cult... we need a good body count for this one!

[ferretchucker]

*Sniff* *Sniff* Does anyone else smell "Ramboween - The curse of John Rambo"?

[The Mothman]

It better be a HUGE cult... we need a good body count for this one!

word! I was thinking the same thing.

Its quite a strange approach for a Rambo film.
Hope it goes back to the One Man Army approach, he strayed away from it a little bit in the latest one for realistic effect...didnt make too much of a difference though, he still kicked a good amount of ass.

[Roderick Usher]

Knowing it's going to be filmed in Bulgaria essentially voids most people's predictions that the next film would see Stallone back on home soil - USA.

Not necessarily

lots of films set in the USA are shot elsewhaere and the Bulgarian countryside doens't look a whole lot different from anywhere in the mid Appalachians

[Roderick Usher]

I'm surprised they are doing a 5th as I heard #4 didn't do so well.

$155 Million globally

his movies CRUSH in Asia

[The Mothman]

$155 Million globally

his movies CRUSH in Asia

deserved every penny. it completely dominated the Box Office.

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Mickey Rourke's post-Oscar nomination dance card is filling up fast, including a turn in director Sylvester Stallone's next film The Expendables.

Now the British tabloids are suggesting that Rourke and Stallone may reunite for the fifth installment in one of the latter's most popular franchises.

According to The Sun, the two actors met recently in Los Angeles where "Sly begged Mickey to sign for Rambo V. Mickey said he was up for it."

The paper claims Rourke would play the villain in the film, which they add would shoot later this year.

Stallone recently confirmed that there will be a Rambo 5, but "the conflict is whether to do it in America or a foreign country."

[scouse mac]

Wherever it is filmed, wherever it is set you can bet John Rambo will end up behind the biggest, most destructive gun he can find.

Im actually looking forward to this, I enjoyed the forth instalment which did exactly what it said on the tin and looked really good.

Rambo takes on religious loonies? That sounds bloody!!

:cool:

[The Mothman]

Mickey Rourke's post-Oscar nomination dance card is filling up fast, including a turn in director Sylvester Stallone's next film The Expendables.

Now the British tabloids are suggesting that Rourke and Stallone may reunite for the fifth installment in one of the latter's most popular franchises.

According to The Sun, the two actors met recently in Los Angeles where "Sly begged Mickey to sign for Rambo V. Mickey said he was up for it."

The paper claims Rourke would play the villain in the film, which they add would shoot later this year.

Stallone recently confirmed that there will be a Rambo 5, but "the conflict is whether to do it in America or a foreign country."

damn you beat me to it, i was just about to come here and rave about that rumor.

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John Rambo's officially readying for a fifth mission.

Nu Image/Millennium Films has greenlit the franchise's fifth installment, with Sylvester Stallone starring and directing, repeating his duties from 2008's "Rambo."

The upcoming project's storyline revolves around Rambo fighting his way through human traffickers and drug lords to rescue a young girl abducted near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Production will start in the spring.

The film will be produced by Avi Lerner, Kevin King Templeton and John Thompson. Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short and Boaz Davidson will exec produce.

Stallone had indicated in interviews that a fifth Rambo was in the works. He teamed with Nu Image/Millennium on the 2008 project, which grossed $42 million domestically and $113 million overseas.

Nu Image/Millennium is in post-production on "Expendables," starring Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li and Mickey Rourke. The actioner's set for release on April 23 through Lionsgate.

Rambo first appeared in the 1982 pic "First Blood," followed in 1985 by "First Blood II" and in 1988 by "Rambo III."

[Elvis_Christ]

Great to hear, looking forward to both of these.

[hacelikewhoa]

Awesome! Rambo's sweet.

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There's been much movement on the Rambo front over the weekend, with Sylvester Stallone confirming to AintitCool that the film is in the early stages of development, and that it currently goes by the name Rambo V: The Savage Hunt.

Story concerns our muscle-bound hero doing battle with a feral beast; an "amalgamation of fury, intelligence and pure, unadulterated rage."

And if the below synopsis is to be believed, Rambo will have a side-kick in the shape of his 22-year-old hunting partner, Beau Brady, plus a highly skilled special forces team at his disposal.

Scroll down for the full story, though be warned, the text contains plenty of spoilers.

Rambo V synopsis -




*************BEWARE OF SPOILERS...***************





John Rambo could track anyone - or anything - on earth. Now the military desperately needs him for a mission that his ultrasensitive instincts tell him he should refuse. A beast is loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle.

It has already decimated a secret research facility and annihilated a squad of elite military guards. And the raging creature is headed south towards civilization, ready to wreak bloody devastation.

It's a job that Rambo and his 22-year-old hunting partner, Beau Brady, can't turn down, but they and a team of highly skilled special forces kill team discover that the prey is beyond their wildest fears, a half-human abomination created by a renegade agency through a series of outlawed genetic experiments.

It has man's cunning, a predator's savageness, and a prehistoric power that has transcended the ages. And even if Rambo and Beau survive its unrelenting hunger for human blood, they'll still have to confront the grim reality that it may have grown immortal.






******************END OF SPOILERS*******************

[The_Return]

So, Rambo Vs. Frankenstein's monster? Sounds like a good time.

[The Mothman]

haha, this sounds kinda stupid actually, i would have preferred the evil cult plot that was rumored earlier. whats this shit about a side-kick? rambo doesnt need a side kick. whatever, im sure it will be a blast anyway.

[_____V_____]

No more monster, señor.

Back in September, /Film connected the dots between the creature feature aspect of Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo 5 and his rights to the sci-fi thriller novel, Hunter, by James Huggins. As one might expect, the idea of John Rambo tracking and being tracked by a genetically engineered “abomination” in snow country split fans like a coconut.

As a premise, it fell in line with Stallone’s previous statements about a new genre direction for the franchise, and the promo art above was even released to tease this aspect.

Well, today the action legend confirmed that he’s scrapped the idea for the sequel and reserved it for a separate film outside the franchise.

So, where will Rambo go next, and more importantly, who as opposed to what will he bludgeon?

In his words: “There will be blood.”

Stallone is rather savvy when it comes to listening to fans online and controlling the rumors and buzz on his productions. He sent an email to StalloneZone to set the record straight…

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

Late next summer sees the release of Sly’s The Expendables, a men-on-a-mission movie following mercenaries who attempt to tackle a dictator in South America. Similar to how 2008’s Rambo was set in Burma/Myanmar, Stallone keeps a heat censor on newsworthy, troubled sections of the world for his projects and now he’s once again deploying Rambo into timely conflict.

Take note that Stallone is not ditching the idea of a creature-feature entirely. He’s held the rights to Higgins’s novel for a long time and was basically using Rambo as a vessel to obtain financing and realize it on the big screen. The passion for the material is obvious. Fans might speculate if Stallone meant that another one of his characters will be featured instead, or if he’ll create a new one. He’s been kicking the idea of a Cliffhanger 2 around for a few years now; might we see Gabe Walker—a character without canon—fighting it out on a tundra dosed with the supernatural? Only time will tell.

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For a while now, there have been all sorts of rumours about Rambo V. It’s a sci-fi. No, it’s a straight-up Rambo flick, where Sylvester Stallone’s one-man army takes on all-comers and shoots them into the middle of next week. No, it’s this. No, it’s that.

So, when Empire Online spoke to Stallone exclusively for their cover feature on The Expendables, they took the time to ask him for the definitive take on the fifth big-screen adventure of the taciturn warrior, and discovered that it’s none of the above.

In fact, it’s not going to happen at all.

“I think Rambo’s pretty well done. I don’t think there’ll be any more. I’m about 99% sure,” said Stallone, which comes as something of a surprise. After all, Rambo V was considered to be something of an inevitability after the last movie, the ultra-violent Rambo, made $113 million worldwide in 2008.

But The Expendables has made Sly think long and hard about his future; and Rambo doesn’t feature in it.

“I was going to do it,” he said. “I said I’d never talk about this, but with I feel that with Rocky Balboa, that character came complete circle. He went home. But for Rambo to go on another adventure might be, I think, misinterpreted as a mercenary gesture and not necessary. I don’t want that to happen.

“I’m very happy with the last Burmese episode, because I didn’t pull any punches on it,” he continued. “I wanted it to be what civil war really is – rough. You can’t candy coat it, and where do you go from there? So that’s [Rambo V] going to go.”

Stallone’s not done with Rambo completely, though. He told Empire that he’s at work on a director’s cut of Rambo which will restore twelve minutes to the movie, including a surprising outburst of loquaciousness for the mumbling man of action at the movie’s beginning.

“He does a speech at the beginning of the movie to Julie Benz where he lays out why his life has been a complete disappointment and why war is natural and peace is an accident,” added Stallone. “And how he just feels that his life has been a waste. It’s very important to hear that and I didn’t think so at the time. I’m going to go back and put in some stuff.”

Disappointing news for die-hard Rambo fans.

[milktoaste]

The Hunter story line sounds pretty sweet, but you could put a bandanna on any muscle bound short guy -hopefully not Vin Diesel- and it would be cool.

Or why not go all out and let Rambo come back for Independence Day II. Rambo and Willie fighting aliens side by side, uniting the planet and firing off one liners in the name of awesomeness. Eh, I tried.

[The Mothman]

this made me sad. :(

[roshiq]

�I think Rambo�s pretty well done. I don�t think there�ll be any more. I�m about 99% sure,� said Stallone, which comes as something of a surprise. After all, Rambo V was considered to be something of an inevitability after the last movie, the ultra-violent Rambo, made $113 million worldwide in 2008.

But The Expendables has made Sly think long and hard about his future; and Rambo doesn�t feature in it.

�I was going to do it,� he said. �I said I�d never talk about this, but with I feel that with Rocky Balboa, that character came complete circle. He went home. But for Rambo to go on another adventure might be, I think, misinterpreted as a mercenary gesture and not necessary. I don�t want that to happen.

�I�m very happy with the last Burmese episode, because I didn�t pull any punches on it,� he continued. �I wanted it to be what civil war really is � rough. You can�t candy coat it, and where do you go from there? So that�s [Rambo V] going to go.�


I like to agree with Mr. Stallone here. No more RAMBO films!:D That was a pretty decent ending to the series in the last film. But I think he can do some cameo as John Rambo (& share some insights regarding a situation that Rambo has already been thorough or experienced) in any other/modern RAMBO like films (which should come out more in these days).




Stallone�s not done with Rambo completely, though. He told Empire that he�s at work on a director�s cut of Rambo which will restore twelve minutes to the movie, including a surprising outburst of loquaciousness for the mumbling man of action at the movie�s beginning.

�He does a speech at the beginning of the movie to Julie Benz where he lays out why his life has been a complete disappointment and why war is natural and peace is an accident,� added Stallone. �And how he just feels that his life has been a waste. It�s very important to hear that and I didn�t think so at the time. I�m going to go back and put in some stuff.�


Now that's a good news. I'll love to see those scenes.:)

[Elvis_Christ]

Lame another Rambo film would've been sweet.