Rambo coming to Fox

[Pollyparrot]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/12/01/rambo-new-blood-tv-series-in-development-at-fox

It could be good, Stallone needs to be in this. All depends on the right balance of action and story.

[Wildcat]

Cool. I hope Stallone stars in it. Last I read there was gonna be another movie but guess not anymore.

[shuriken]

Kinda hope he doesn't star in this. I wouldn't mind if he was a supporting and returning character, but dude is 70. As much of a Stallone fan that I am sometimes you gotta take a back seat.

[Wildcat]

He still in great shape though. Plus he'd be using makeup.

I just wonder if the violence would be toned down for TV.

[shuriken]

^^Oh I'm sure it will be. Yeah he's in great shape and they'll use makeup but I am pretty skeptical. We'll wait and see.

[ZariusTwo]

Can't they just rerun the cartoon?:)

[Leo656]

If the last few weeks have proven anything, it's that The World Needs John Rambo!
https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfa1/t51.2885-15/e35/11820698_795606993894795_1126775032_n.jpg

Particularly, the world needs a Rambo project directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone, written by Frank Miller. :tgrin: That would just be like "whaaaaaat."

[Andrew NDB]

I'm a huge Rambo fan and this is terrible. New Blood, starring Rambo's son we've never seen or heard about ever? Who's an ex-Navy SEAL?

You know what it's going to be, right? It's going to be the son going on missions for the government and Rambo Sr. giving advice from time to time in ongoing cameos. All to the tune of OK-for-network-television levels of violence. Forget about Rambo cannoning trucks full of people to pulp, or throats getting ripped out or any of that.

The crime here is that seems to have taken Rambo: Last Blood off the rails. Which has been promised for a while.

[plastroncafe]

If this were a "First Blood" John Rambo, I might be interested.
But it's likely going to be something based more on the later movies...which I have absolutely no interest in.
Oh well.

[Andrew NDB]

If this were a "First Blood" John Rambo, I might be interested.
But it's likely going to be something based more on the later movies...which I have absolutely no interest in.
Oh well.

I think the 4th one had a lot of merit. 2 and 3 are pretty disposable.

[Leo656]

Oh yes. 2 and 3 are just dumb fun but the fourth is powerful stuff. People can eschew the over-the-top violence all they want but there is a lot of harsh and inconvenient truth in that movie. Particularly about how we're all animals when it's a matter of our own survival.

But yeah, I like the movies but I honestly don't give much of a sh*t about this.

[TigerClaw]

Since it will be on Fox, I'm sure the violence will be toned down quite a bit.

[Andrew NDB]

Since it will be on Fox, I'm sure the violence will be toned down quite a bit.

Which kills the point of it. Rambo is synonymous with ridiculous levels of violence, people exploding and getting machine gunned to death left and right.

I could see if it was like, on AMC, maybe. But even then I'd say ditch the kid angle.

[plastroncafe]

Which kills the point of it. Rambo is synonymous with ridiculous levels of violence, people exploding and getting machine gunned to death left and right.

I could see if it was like, on AMC, maybe. But even then I'd say ditch the kid angle.

Which is sad, because that's not what the first movie was like at all.

[shuriken]

^^ Always thought it was weird how a movie about a PTSD stricken soldier becomes a franchise about a killing machine going on missions because he can't adjust to civilian life.
Don't get me wrong I enjoy the sequels, but they are such a far cry from the original and its message its just kinda jarring.

[Leo656]

It's inevitable when things that were never designed or intended to have sequels, get sequels.

[Andrew NDB]

^^ Always thought it was weird how a movie about a PTSD stricken soldier becomes a franchise about a killing machine going on missions because he can't adjust to civilian life.

But it sort of comes full circle in 4. In glorious bloody glory.

[Leo656]

I'm really glad I'm not the only one who likes that under-appreciated gem of a movie.

Everyone dismissed it out of hand, like "Blaaaaah, more Rambo, who cares? They already wore it out." It's like "Nah dude, it totally justifies the entire idea."

See also: Balboa, Rocky

[Andrew NDB]

I'm really glad I'm not the only one who likes that under-appreciated gem of a movie.

Everyone dismissed it out of hand, like "Blaaaaah, more Rambo, who cares? They already wore it out." It's like "Nah dude, it totally justifies the entire idea."

You're not. Rambo 4 did decent bucks at the box office and afterward too.

[Leo656]

The world needs more movies where a "Man of God" breaks another man's skull open with a rock when pushed too far, says I.

[shuriken]

But it sort of comes full circle in 4. In glorious bloody glory.

Yeah I kinda agree. It retroactively makes 2 and 3 kinda necessary.

[Leo656]

Rambo III was once deemed "The Most Violent Movie Ever Made" in the 1990 Guinness Book of World Records. 221 acts of violence, over 70 explosions, and about 110 people killed on-screen.

That alone makes that movie necessary my son. :lol: The fact that Rambo later more than doubled it with over 230 kills is just the delicious, goopy, blood-soaked frosting on the cake.

[shuriken]

^^ Yeah I saw that. There are very few movies with more onscreen deaths than Rambo 3. The only two that come to mind are Rambo(2007) and Punisher Warzone (2008), which are that visceral over the top kinda awesome I enjoy once in a while.

[Leo656]

I love Punisher: War Zone. :lol:

[shuriken]

^^ ME TOO. Most people hate it apparently. But That's exactly what the Punisher does in his comics though. I think it just works, moreso than the 2004 Movie with your boy Kevin Nash and moreso than the 88' movie with my boy Dolph Lundgren.

[Leo656]

I think the Tom Jane movie and War Zone were both good. Just different.

[shuriken]

It's ok, good origin story if anything. The funny thing is Warzone could totally work as a sequel or its own thing. But the tonal shift is pretty drastic. Then again one could argue that after 4 years of expert punishing Frank just got systematically more brutal.

[Leo656]

That's what I pretend. :trazz:

[Andrew NDB]

The Jane movie had a decent enough script and good casting, but some odd changes from the source material that made it not so Punisher-like (Miami? what?). And it was very light on the graphic violence. I feel like it was shot PG-13 then they just sort of didn't fight the rating when the MPAA gave them an R anyway for who knows what reason.

War Zone had a horrifically bad script, not the best casting (but not the worst either), but hit the source material fairly well, and delivered on the graphic violence. Maybe even too much. Maybe distractingly too much.

The Lundgren movie I actually feel had the best balance of script and violence. Lundgren himself isn't a great Punisher but he wasn't terrible either. Had he been given a skull on his shirt I think people would look back on it a lot more favorably. Gun to my head I'd pick this one to watch of any of the 3 so far.

[shuriken]

^^ I guess. It's been a while since I seen that one. I remember he lived in a sewer and healed a cut by cauterizing it. Last time I saw it it was dubbed in Spanish. Strangely enough the only Punisher Movie I didn't watch in Spanish was the Jane one.

[turtlefanforever]

Looks like Stallone quickly shot down any involvement in this project. I'm glad. I had a feeling i wasnt going to like it, i can easily write this off now if it sucks.

Hopefully that also means he puts his efforts into Rambo: Last Blood. But i doubt it. Either way 'Rambo' is a fitting ending.

[Candy Kappa]

I hope it's going to be a LA adaption of Rambo: The Force of Freedom.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5014/5511807153_e5685dd70a_b.jpg

Either way, I'm down for more Rambo.