Stallone Promises Fans a 'Rambo IV'
Sylvester Stallone has promised fans of his Rambo franchise they can expect another installment of the all-action series - even though he's nearly 60. Stallone, who is currently 58 years old, is holding talks with movie bosses about resurrecting the 80s blockbusters, which centered on a violent, disillusioned Vietnam veteran. He says, "We're in the kitchen and we're cooking. I've had meetings about this and it looks good. We'll see what we come up with."
Please... Rambo 3 already was bullshit... time to move on
Quote from: andykPlease... Rambo 3 already was bullshit... time to move on
all bets on cop land 2 then? even de niro and liotta has signed. everyone's waiting for sly to sign on.
Quote from: mogwaiQuote from: andykPlease... Rambo 3 already was bullshit... time to move on
all bets on cop land 2 then? even de niro and liotta has signed. everyone's waiting for sly to sign on.
the only thing i thought it could remotely work was Rocky 6... only because I love so much Rocky I to IV that I can forget Rocky V
If not... maybe he has to run for governor somewhere
"Rambo" Back on Duty
Rambo is coming out of hiding and looking for some fresh blood.
After a 17-year layoff, Sylvester Stallone is ready to reprise his role as everyone's favorite muscle-bound Green Beret for a fourth installment in the popular 1980s film franchise.
After protracted legal wrangling, the rights to Rambo were snapped up in 1997 by Miramax's genre division, Dimension Films. But a planned Rambo IV stalled. Now, with Miramax heads Harvey and Bob Weinstein exiting Disney, they have sold the sequel rights for the intrepid character to Nu Image/Millennium Films, and the project is finally moving forward.
In addition to breaking the old red bandanna out of mothballs, Stallone, 58, will write the screenplay.
"I've signed the deal and I have the old headband, machine gun and bow and arrow ready to go. I am looking forward to showing movie fans the real action hero again," Stallone said in a statement.
Stallone, who earned an Oscar nomination for writing the original Rocky and who has directed such flicks as Staying Alive and Rocky V, compared Rambo IV to such 1970's revenge classics as Straw Dogs and Deliverance.
The sequel opens with our brooding Vietnam vet finally settling down with a wife and child, while still working for the military. (Sadly, Richard Crenna, who costarred in the three previous installments as Rambo's longtime commander, Colonel Samuel Trautman, will be MIA from the new sequel, havingdied in 2003.)
Though he's "assimilated into the tapestry of America," workplace stress forces Rambo to leave the big city and move his family to the boonies. Their lives are upended however by white supremacists unhappy about a part-Navajo man moving into the area. When the racists take Rambo's 10-year-old daughter hostage, dad is forced back into action to rescue her.
According to Stallone, the new film will be similar in tone to the "character-driven" franchise-launching First Blood (1982), in which Rambo uses his battle-honed skills to get even with a small-town sheriff, as opposed to the more cartoonish action-packed sequels. Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) was the blockbuster film of the series, featuring Rambo returned to Vietnam to rescue fellow POWs; 1988's Rambo III found our hero battling the Soviet army with the help of Afghan guerrillas.
If Rambo is able to tap into moviegoers' rah-rah nationalist fervor that made him so popular during Reaganmania of the '80s, Nu Image boss Avi Lerner promises more first blood adventures.
"It's a franchise," Lerner says. "If number four works, then you have a number five."
That’s not the only collaboration the company has with Stallone. Nu Image is also developing a Stallone script on the life of famed poet Edgar Allen Poe. Stallone also plans to direct the film. (Quoth the raven: "Yo!")
Stallone's recent stab at reality TV as cohost of NBC's The Contender wasn't successful, getting canceled after one lackluster season. He also has been working on a new Rocky installment, but that project hasn't managed to get off the drawing board. Now, he's hoping that revisiting Rambo will help resurrect his once mighty career.
Rambo IV is slated to start lensing in Sofia, Bulgaria in January before moving on to locations in India and the U.S. A release is being targeted for either late 2006 or early 2007.
Thats terrible
Stallone back in combat for fourth 'Rambo'
Source: Hollywood Reporter
The franchise that drew "First Blood" is back with a fourth installment.
Millennium Films in conjunction with Emmett/Furla Films and Equity Pictures are partnering on a $50 million "Rambo IV." Sylvester Stallone is attached to star.
The story centers on former Vietnam vet John Rambo, who is living a reclusive life back home in the U.S. But when a girl goes missing, he is forced to abandon his quiet lifestyle and take justice into his own hands.
No director is attached, and the screenplay is in the early stages.
Millennium's Avi Lerner and Boaz Davidson and Emmett/Furla's Randall Emmett and George Furla will produce along with Kevin King. Exec producers are Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, John Thompson, Andreas Thiesmeyer, Joseph Lautenschlager and Gerd Koechlin.
The film is set to begin shooting in the spring in Mexico and the U.S.
Millennium, which describes "Rambo IV" as a return to the franchise's original roots, recently announced plans to produce "Poe," a film about Edgar Allen Poe, with Stallone helming before seguing to "Rambo IV."
Stallone will revisit another 1980s franchise when he begins filming "Rocky Balboa" in December.
fuck....does this mean "Stop or My Mom Will Shoot...Again" will be happening as well...
Rambo IV Location Buzz
Where are Sly & co. heading?
It was announced back in October that Emmett/Furla Films and Millenium Films would shoot Rambo IV in the U.S. and Mexico in spring 2006. The sequel would have Rambo's quiet life interrupted when a young girl goes missing. Rambo has to leave his new existence behind and take justice into his own hands.
Now The Hindustan Times reports that Rambo IV will film partially in India. "Sylvester Stallone will be shooting portions of Rambo IV in India, probably in the rugged terrain of Ladakh," the Times claims.
The paper adds, "The plot of the film has the angry ex-soldier heading for India when a bunch of racist thugs hounds his family back in the US."
Another rumor making the rounds, courtesy of scooper "AB King," is that Rambo IV will lens in Bulgaria, which would supposedly stand-in for Mexico.
an old sly in a wig is not a pretty sight.
Rambo Returns
Sylvester Stallone returns as Rambo -- Another of the actor's 80s roles is being resuscitated
Source: EW
If watching the Rocky Balboa trailer has you asking how long until Sylvester Stallone resurrects John Rambo — that monosyllabic ex-Green Beret last seen in 1988 shouting profanity at an approaching Soviet army in Afghanistan — you're not alone.
Okay, you may be alone, but we're going to tell you anyway. First announced in 2005, production on Rambo IV (final title to be determined) is finally expected to commence Oct. 1 in Thailand. But while America braces for Balboa's arrival on Dec. 22, Rambo has yet to land a domestic distributor. Why have studios had a tough time picturing the old guy back in battle? Maybe because the writer-director — that would be Mr. Stallone — couldn't figure out which war he'd be waging.
''You know, it's hard,'' says the 60-year-old star. ''Politics have changed so much. Who do we fight? The Finns? You can't do that. The Dutch? That's not gonna work. Wooden shoes are not gonna look cool.'' Stallone may be joking, but finding Rambo a fresh foe was actually a serious problem for the Nu Image/ Millennium Films production. After ruling out the Mideast, Africa, and Korea, the actor finally hit on a solution. ''I called Soldier of Fortune magazine and said, 'What is the most critical man-doing-inhumanity-to-man situation right now in the world? Where is it?''' The answer was Burma.
So, the script that emerged — a ''first draft'' Stallone has written with Art Monterastelli (The Hunted) — finds Rambo living a monastic lifestyle in Bangkok and salvaging old PT boats and tanks for scrap metal. (''It's like he's stripping himself down,'' says the actor, pensively. ''That old piece of military equipment.'') When a group of volunteers bringing supplies into Burma disappears, a relative of one of the missing missionaries begs Rambo to find them. He heads off with a team of young guns, a plot point required by the financiers, who wanted to hedge against Rambo's possible mono-generational appeal.
''It might work,'' Stallone says, laughing. And if not, we can't wait for Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot 2: Granny's Revenge.
title: JOHN RAMBO
Stallone returns for Rambo 4 : In the Serpent's Eye
Source: Moviehole
Sylvester Stallone finally has an excuse to iron-out the creases in those greens.
Production Weekly has announced that Sly will write, direct and star in "Rambo IV : In The Serpent's Eye".
The next chapter finds Rambo recruited by a group of Christian human rights missionaries to protect them against pirates, during a humanitarian aid deliver to the persecuted Karen people of Burma. After some of the missionaries are taken prisoner by sadistic Burmese soldiers, Rambo gets a second impossible job: to assemble a team of mercenaries to rescue the surviving relief workers.
"Rambo 4" starts shooting in Thailand in January. Frank Stallone starts begging in December.
Juggernaut takes on Rambo?
Source: Moviehole
Is Vinnie Jones about to trade-in his soccer ball for Sly's rocks – and give them a smashing kick?
The "X-Men: The Last Stand" star – don't hold that against him though, I do think he's better than that and it was probably the cabbage that enticed him to do that bitch – is said to be in talks to join the cast of the next "Rambo" movie.
The soccer star cum actor tells the Norwegian site VG Nett that he'll begin work on "Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye" before Christmas. (And yes, I did run the report through an English translator just to confirm that that was what he was telling the site).
Jones, who got his big break in the movies thanks to his mate Guy Ritchie – who cast him in "Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels" and later "Snatch", joins a cast that includes such names (or 'no names') as James Brolin and Kim Dickens.
Also on Jones's schedule for 2007 is "Carry on London", the first in a new series of comedies based around the old Sid James' comedies.
In "Rambo IV", which Stallone writes, directs and stars in, Vietnam vet John Rambo is forced to emerge from his reclusive lifestyle and take justice into his own hands after his daughter gets kidnapped. As far as I know, Vinnie Jones does not play Sly's daughter – but giving the look of the father, ya do never know.
First Shots of Stallone as Rambo
Source: ComingSoon
The first shots of Sylvester Stallone in John Rambo have surfaced at FlynetOnline. The photos are of Stallone in character filming in Thailand.
In the movie, also starring Sam Elliott, Matthew Marsden and Sai Mawng, renegade Vietnam War veteran John Rambo comes out of retirement as a boat repairman in Bangkok to track down missionary aid workers who have disappeared in the jungles of impoverished Myanmar.
http://www.flynetonline.com/2007/03/rambos-last-mission-in-thailand.html
Wow, thats a very bad wig...
I love this comment from that page:
QuoteSly is the best!!!I have 25 of his movies!!!!He is the man!!!He need to come to Croatia because I am crazy about him!!!I am from Croatia!!!That is right acros the Italy!!!Sly will know!!!My name is Josipa and I am 12!!!!!Sly please come to Croatia!!!
That right there is more entertaining than the movie itself has any chance of being.
is he going undercover as a shemale?
i thought modage was kidding about the title. :yabbse-undecided:
i guess it's only a matter of time before these get made:
- Lieutenant Marion Cobretti
- Raymond Tango & Gabriel Cash
- The Honorable Judge Joseph Dredd
Angelo 'Snaps' Provolone
http://www.fakenews.net/archive/bit_parts/stallone_movies_suck_97_09_27.html
Quote from: Pubrick on March 26, 2007, 06:06:22 AM
i thought modage was kidding about the title. :yabbse-undecided:
i guess it's only a matter of time before these get made:
- Lieutenant Marion Cobretti
- Raymond Tango & Gabriel Cash
- The Honorable Judge Joseph Dredd
"Dirty" Harold Callahan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgKaAeGfOyA
lol
i laughed through the whole thing but i was surprised that it doesnt look as horrible as i thought it could be... its funny.
Quote from: Pubrick on March 26, 2007, 06:06:22 AM
- Raymond Tango & Gabriel Cash
This one would actually be.....kind of cool.
And from that clip, this movie looks AWESOME.
This looks terrible but could be full of some fantastic kills
three thoughts (admin edit: effing spoilers for the clip):
he should have to go back and fix what he started in Afghanistan
who the fuck fishes with a bow and arrow?
did he really just punch a guys head off?
New Trailer here. (http://view.break.com/362761)
Quote from: MacGuffin on September 07, 2007, 11:48:29 PM
New Trailer here. (http://view.break.com/362761)
those kills are so ridiculously gruesome! haha, man, i missed the first trailer but with a punch-decapitation this could be classic - and i normally hate gratuitous violence. it looks so ridiculous it might actually be something close to impressive.
..and it's against asians.EDIT: saw the first trailer, and..
Quote from: squints on May 20, 2007, 07:55:46 PM
did he really just punch a guys head off?
YES. madness.
What insane trailers. I think I saw them during Grindhouse, though. If not, I should have.
ha, ha this looks
Rambo Declares War on Jan. 25
Source: ComingSoon
Lionsgate will release Sylvester Stallone's John Rambo on January 25, 2008. Written by, directed by, produced by, and starring Stallone, the action-thriller co-stars Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Rey Gallegos, Jake La Botz, Tim Kang and Paul Schulze.
In Thailand, a group of Christian aid workers recruit John Rambo to guide them up the Salween River to deliver medical supplies to the Karen tribe of neighboring Burma (aka Myanmar). When the missionaries fail to return, Rambo is persuaded to take a group of mercenaries back into the war-torn border region to find them. What follows is a descent into hell on earth.
I guess its not an Oscar contender :yabbse-grin:
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Rambo Goes to Hell and Back
Source: ComingSoon
Lionsgate has a new name for writer/director/producer/star Sylvester Stallone's latest Rambo installment -- Rambo to Hell and Back. Co-starring Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Rey Gallegos, Jake La Botz, Tim Kang and Paul Schulze, the action-thriller opens in theaters on January 25.
Here's how the studio describes the movie:
Twenty years after the last film in the series, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) has retreated to northern Thailand, where he's running a longboat on the Salween River. On the nearby Thai-Burma (Myanmar) border, the world's longest-running civil war, the Burmese-Karen conflict, rages into its 60th year. But Rambo, who lives a solitary, simple life in the mountains and jungles fishing and catching poisonous snakes to sell, has long given up fighting, even as medics, mercenaries, rebels and peace workers pass by on their way to the war-torn region.
That all changes when a group of human rights missionaries search out the "American river guide" John Rambo. When Sarah (Julie Benz) and Michael Bennett (Paul Schulze) approach him, they explain that since last year's trek to the refugee camps, the Burmese military has laid landmines along the road, making it too dangerous for overland travel. They ask Rambo to guide them up the Salween and drop them off, so they can deliver medical supplies and food to the Karen tribe. After initially refusing to cross into Burma, Rambo takes them, dropping off Sarah, Michael and the aid workers...
Less than two weeks later, pastor Arthur Marsh (Ken Howard) finds Rambo and tells him the aid workers did not return and the embassies have not helped locate them. He tells Rambo he's mortgaged his home and raised money from his congregation to hire mercenaries to get the missionaries, who are being held captive by the Burmese army. Although the United States military trained him to be a lethal super soldier in Vietnam, decades later Rambo's reluctance for violence and conflict are palpable, his scars faded, yet visible. However, the lone warrior knows what he must do...
pffffffffffffff
lets kick some ass
Stallone drops Rambo title after fan scorn
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Rambo is changing names as fast as he reloads weapons. Last week, it was announced that the forthcoming fourth movie in the franchise would be called Rambo: to Hell and Back, but after the new name received a trashing from film fans online, Sylvester Stallone has now reverted to the original title: John Rambo. According to reports, Stallone told the influential Harry Knowles of the Ain't It Cool News website that he thought "the title John Rambo was derivative of Rocky Balboa and might give people the idea that this is the last Rambo film, and I don't necessarily feel that it will be". Knowles reportedly told him he hated the new title and preferred the original moniker, to which Sly responded: "Alright, that's the title. John Rambo." The fourth adventure sees our traumatised Vietnam vet heading to the Burmese-Thai border to rescue a group of missing charity workers.
yay
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fuck yeah. haha.
New Trailer here. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzZwzoD1ZFM)
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the fuck happened to JOHN?
and wow banksy sold out..
New Music Video Trailer here. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/rambo/)
Saw this today. Got just about what I wanted/expected. Little dialogue, tons of ridiculously bloody action. The bad guys are bad, and the people Rambo has to rescue are idiots. Good old jingoistic, Reagan-era, kill-the-savages action.
I wish the end of the final action sequence had a little something more, though. Something even more over the top. But its pretty goddamn over the top as it is.
it only felt like half of a movie. it was really simple - missionaries get fucked up, rambo tries to rescue them, rambo blows everybody up. there were a lot of really cool scenes, but the carnage in the beginning seems to promise a lot more. the last 10 minutes was rambo sitting behind the machine gun and firing for about 10 minutes. I remember in the last movie he used all modes of transportation and used all sorts of weapons. in this one he just keeps on winning and winning until the movie ends. it makes references to his other skills but they're only passing references. for the most part rambo just shoots with a giant machine gun for 10 minutes.
but still, the carnage is a lot of fun - people get blown to pieces in very entertaining manners. the movie hides its jingoism through maximal violence and minimal dialogue, but it's obvious what type of mindset it operates from. coupling this movie up with Rocky Balboa goes to show how shrewd Stallone is as a filmmaker. In the final Rocky he paints the portrait of the sad clown/ old fool so nobody can laugh at the ridiculous storyline - the characters ridicule Rocky enough. In Rambo he has idiot missionaries preaching innocuous American imperialism, and having Rambo scoff at it, but the ensuing carnage leaves Rambo no choice but to blow people up. In both movies, they try to subvert cynicism by having their characters proclaim their simplicity, and both have them have similar speeches about "this is who I am/ this is all I know how to do". It is much easier for the audience to relinquish skepticism this way. the good news is, the scripts' own fabricated skepticism limits the amount of jingoistic bullshit the movies are allowed to preach, the bad news is, some kids are gonna walk away with rejuvenated ignorance, and other folks will again feel a bit dirtier as Americans.
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i thought this was good. it was stupid, insane, action. i can't believe they shoot a kid and then threw another one in the fire. it was funny. usually the kids don't die but these kids got died. it will buy the blu-ray. i liked the ending when rambo walked home to arizona? i didn't see the guy who got his head punched off. :yabbse-sad: everything happened so fast. this is all just action. it reminds me if you take all those dumb but fun action movies and splice them together to create one large action sequence then speed it up. that's the film. if anyone goes to see this and hates then they aren't that smart. what would anyone expect out of rambo iv? i will say that the first trailer got me hooked. congrats to those things at millenuim films. i know this review is stupid.
i liked:
Quote from: pyramid machine on February 08, 2008, 03:13:24 PM
if anyone goes to see this and hates then they aren't that smart.
If it wasn't for the over the top violence, I don't think I would have enjoyed this. Remember that video Craig Kilborn would show for his 5 Questions of the guy getting his head punched off? It was like watching that for 90 minutes. Somehow that made me want Rambo to kill more people to watch the deaths rather than just kill the bad guys because they were bad.