Rambo 5
 

Always excited about Rambo movies especially after the last one but a little nervous after reading this & hearing about the direction they are going...:

Stallone has owned the film rights to the novel "Hunter" by James Byron Huggins for about 10 years, and it looks like he's adapting that book as the next "Rambo" film. Here's the synopsis for the newly-titled Rambo 5: The Savage Hunt:

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 Artic Circle. It has already decimated a secret research facility and annihilated a squad of elite military guards. And the raging creature is headed south toward 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 a terror beyond their wildest imagination - 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 contront the grim reality that it may have grown immortal.

I liked the original rumored plot line about him fighting people traffickers & drug lords looking for a kidnapped girl at the Mexican boarder.

This is the most insane thing I've heard in a long time.

Why would Rambo go from unrelenting-gorefest realistic scenario (last film) and jump to what sounds like a storyline in a Wolverine book?

I seem to be saying this a lot these days:

".......What?"

Rambo vs Predator.....

Eh why not...there's an upcoming Robin Hood movie where Robin fights a monster.... :roll:

Rambo vs Predator.

Reminds me of the contra games. But i think it can rock. Maybe if rambo finds out there is whole swarm of predators and gets attack by more than one this might get really interesting.

Seems like they are 'jumping the shark' so to speak with some of the details concerning this storyline, but I do like how it's essentially bringing things full circle where Rambo is now the hunter, and not the hunted. Which was the case in, First Blood.

If Stallone wants to do a Sci-Fi film why put Rambo in it?

Cuz he only has 2 characters. Rocky and Rambo....and Rocky fighting monsters would be just plain up the wall....Unless....he like gets abducted and has to do boxing matches in space and stuff....

I'm pretty sure that was a rhetorical question.

He should have just made this seprate from the Rambo series then maybe I would be excited about it like his upcoming The Expendables film. I will probably check it out but even my wife was like, wtf? That doesn't sound like Rambo!

All these years later and he's still trying to rip off Arnold.

A little more info that surfaced today I found on a site,
"Monster news (pun intended) hit AICN this morning as they received (and posted) a voicemail from Sylvester Stallone who clarified the villain in his forthcoming fifth Rambo film, currently titled Rambo V: The Savage Hunt. While it was originally reported there would be super soldiers like in Universal Soldier, Stallone clarifies, "It's actually a feral beast, a thing, it's this an amalgamation of fury and intelligence and pure unadulterated rage. Its before men became human." He continues, "[It's] Your worst nightmare... you're battling your primitive self." It looks like we'll have a reason to cover this one. Seriously though, how awesome will this be if it's as bloody as the fourth Rambo? BRING IT!"

Sounds like Rambo vs Predator to me in a way! Lol! I still see it cause I like Stallone & Rambo. Spitfire did you hear Arnold was making a cameo in Stallone's new The Expendables movie?

Yeah along with every other action movie star for the past 15 years. That movie I'm looking forward to seeing just because of how ludicrous the cast is.

Yea it pretty crazy! Stone Cold, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Rourke, & Dolph Lundgren is back! I can't believe Steven Segal(I think he was approached) & Jean Claude Van Dam turned it down! What are they doing? Both are direct to DVD kings now! lol! And Wesley Snipes too cause I think they asked him as well!

You can listen to Stallone talking about it himself here:
http://www.aintitcool.com/images2009...yVoiceMail.mov

People seem to be ignoring the underlying subtext of what he's saying. It seems pretty clear to me: Rambo isn't hunting some monster, or some rogue dude... the monster he's hunting is himself.

He's been a ticking time bomb since the first movie. A split personality/Jeckyll & Hyde type of thing would work.

I don't know bro, he says ""It's actually a feral beast, a thing, it's this an amalgamation of fury and intelligence and pure unadulterated rage. Its before men became human." sounds like a monster thing to me. Maybe it has some Rambo DNA in it since it might have been made by the government & Rambo is the best at what he does.

With what you just quoted Hordak, that sounds more like Andrew is right. It makes it sound like Rambo is sent to hunt this feral beast, and "before men became human" specifically sounds like it is infact a man. The term "human" just makes it sound like they mean "men before they had a consence/compassion/thought/etc."

You dig?

Whatever this "Beast" is unveiled to be, it sounds like there will be many parallels drawn between this, and what Rambo's experience was in First Blood. Which I think can work on a number of levels and bring the series completely full circle.

I personally think that this sounds awesome!

Even better would be Rambo vs Dutch.

And as for Stallone only having two characters: Cobra. That is one cool mutha right there.

Yea I follow. And only time will tell! But Dutch vs Rambo, yeah that would be cool! And Cobra was bad***!

What I hope is that this is actually part prequel. Could be way off base here, but it sounds like it might go something like this:

Rambo is tracking a feral killer throughout the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, hot on his trail... but always coming up just a little bit behind his trail. He finds bodies torn apart, gore, etc., as he continues to follow the trail. All the while he's having flashbacks to his years as a young man fighting in the Vietnam War after being trained by Trautman to be an invincible killing machine (I'm not a big prequel advocate, but with the few quick glimpses we got in "First Blood" of these years, I'd be fascinated to see Rambo: The Nam Years)... and then Rambo in the present is having blackouts with these flashbacks.

In the end he finds out the killer he's been chasing has been him the whole time. Might end in the suicide the first film omitted.

There is no way Stallone would kill off Rambo.

Maybe "Last Blood" will happen after all...

https://kbrocking.com/2017/10/20/did...ppening-maybe/

YAY! It's shooting in September.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/rambo-5-...xican-cartels/

http://www.darkhorizons.com/more-det...h-rambo-shoot/

So a 71 year old Rambo is going to go shooting up Mexican drug cartels and killing 100 drug dealers looking for his half sister. Sounds legit.

I can understand people criticizing the story and acting in these movies except for First Blood that movie is great, but I still can’t understand why people think it’s ridiculous that Sly, at his age is making these movies. I mean physically he can still pull it off better than most half his age. I think it’s incredible what he has done physically on screen over the last ten years. Truly remarkable! I say bring it on Sly! Also I think the fourth Rambo movie was pretty badass!

http://www.darkhorizons.com/expendab...oving-forward/

Crap... there's tons of Chinese money tied up in this movie also.

^ Dude again? :lol: Ok I’m starting to think you’re just complaining sarcastically or something about these Chinese agreements.

You know they’re not gonna end up however you think. Rambo 5 is about the Mexican cartel after all.

So far, the number of sequels to big American franchise movies being poured serious Chinese money into... end up PG-13 with a ton of Chinese content and a side of anti-Japanese sentiment, are about 100 to 1. And also dumbed down into very simple, very straight-forward, easily digestible things.

This is a relatively new thing. But the end result always seems the same.

It appears to be. But let's see who he "teams up with" and how watered down it all becomes now.

Hopefully Stallone will insulate this from that. But we shall see. Maybe he was like, "OK, I'll do Escape Plan 2 and 3... but you f***ers better fund Rambo 5 proper and you leave that one alone! Put it in the contract!" But... then again he did do a PG-13 Expendables 3, which he promised he would never.

I don’t even know what to say anymore. I just find it funny that you’re keeping an eye out to see who finances these movies (if it genuinely bothers you).

There’s probably plenty of Chinese or other things slipped into movies that have nothing to do with who finances. You don’t think anything of it...why can’t you do the same with these? Just because you read who the companies are?

I honestly do not care if there’s Chinese characters or nods in this or Terminator. We know what the focus and actual movies are going to be about.

Pics have been being posted by Sly on his Instagram from the filming of the movie.

https://deadline.com/2018/10/rambo-s...-5-1202475306/

Looks fantastic! And the title is officially "Last Blood."

Here's a new one that got posted recently.
https://twitter.com/Lionsgate/status...42034072637440

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dq7rkc5VYAA8De6.jpg:small

Filming wraps:
http://www.darkhorizons.com/filming-...bo-5-says-sly/

Red Dead Rambo? Haha.

Excited for this one! So far "Glass", Lars von Trier's "The House that Jack Built", Gaspar Noe's "Climax" and this are my most anticipated for 2019.

It is seldom I geek out without remorse. But this is one time that I do.

This is awesome beyond all comprehension. Rambo vs. The cartel.

I saw it yesterday. It does look awesome.

Phew, didn’t see any Chinese nods in this or Terminator...just kidding :)

Seems like it might be set up akin to First Blood, just instead of police, its Mexican cartels. Hoping it is a fitting end to the series!

Sounds like his adoptive granddaughter gets abducted into human trafficking by the cartel and Rambo goes to Mexico to wipe out the lot of them... and Stallone has strongly implied it will be a one way trip.

It is going to be beautiful...

One way? Is that implying Rambo dies? I really, really, really hope not.

No reason to kill off the character entirely.