Rambo 0 (prequel)

[Andrew NDB]

Sweet, this is what I've been saying we've needed for a while now. Hopefully with Old Rambo (Stallone) in the present for a framing device or narration bare minimum.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/sisu-di...o-origin-film/

[Andrew NDB]

Young Rambo might be cast already.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/noah-ce...ng-john-rambo/

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Young Rambo might be cast already.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/noah-ce...ng-john-rambo/

You know... the only "prequel" to Rambo we will ever need was released in 1982 and was called "Rambo: First Blood".

[Andrew NDB]

Nah, I'm good with seeing the creation of the "killing machine" we only heard talked about in First Blood.

[IMJ]

I mean... I feel like all of that was covered in all of the movies - it's just going to be more of that. Vietnam. Bamboo cages.

I dunno.

They are going to have to cut one helluva trailer. I'm looking forward to Tulsa King S3 way more than this.

[joe-eyeball]

Well hasn’t it been reported that Stallone is not involved with this project? No Stallone involvement ruins it for me!

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by joe-eyeball

Well hasn’t it been reported that Stallone is not involved with this project? No Stallone involvement ruins it for me!

Oh that's huge. And you know, as empty as it was I liked the last Rambo flick just as a continuation of this guy's life and the $#!( he gets hemmed up in.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by joe-eyeball

Well hasn’t it been reported that Stallone is not involved with this project? No Stallone involvement ruins it for me!

We don't know that for sure yet. We know that he's aware of it and has been for years now and generally has indicated favorably towards it... when he's been very UNfavorable towards Creed III.

I still say there's a fair shot we'll get SOMETHING of Old Rambo in it. Whether that's a narrative framework (like, after Rambo 5 he does some peyote on an Indian reservation and reflects on his beginnings), just narration or something else.

Originally Posted by IMJ

Oh that's huge. And you know, as empty as it was I liked the last Rambo flick just as a continuation of this guy's life and the $#!( he gets hemmed up in.

I loved Last Blood, which was attempted to be cancelled by the left for its unfavorable depictions of Mexicans when it came out. Apparently they're only happy if Russians are the bad guys Rambo mows down or -- at best -- racially ambiguous Asians. Though they probably wouldn't even let that be at this point. But cartels that literally behead whole families they think may have snitched on them and chop them into bits and throw them into barrels of acid on camera for the past 20 years... these guys are off limits somehow.

I only didn't like that Last Blood didn't afford Rambo even one little piece of happiness. His life on the farm, gone. His "daughter," gone. Right back to zero, and the character is like 70 at this point. And the ending even sort of implied maybe he died there on that chair.

[Autbot_Benz]

Last Blood was forgettable. I think it’s the worst of the 5 movies

Should have stopped at the 4th movie. That ending of 4 when he is walking down to his dad’s farm was a perfect way to end the series

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

Last Blood was forgettable. I think it’s the worst of the 5

I think you can make a case that Last Blood isn't as memorable as most (I would say it is, hitting in a much different way... particularly if you're a father to a daughter as I am of 2 and Stallone has many daughters)... but no way is it worse than Rambo 3. I like 3, but it was basically Stallone's Riddick (the 3rd Riddick movie). The "look how COOL I am" movie, and what a superhero I am now.

[sdp]

I watched all the 4 Rambo movies in like 2010, I guess they made another one. Rambo should've died int he first movie, it's really the only good one and made sense for the character to die.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

And the ending even sort of implied maybe he died there on that chair.

I can see that, although I took out of it that he continued to live because he rode off on the horse and I think he was still bloody. I could be mistaken though - it's been a while since I sat through it.

You'd imagine that if he died on the porch then the "ride into the sunset scene" might have "cleared up his injuries" or "cleaned him up in a final redemption" somehow.

I dunno. I guess it could go either way. In some ways it makes sense for Rambo to go into the afterlife all beat to $#!(.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by IMJ

I can see that, although I took out of it that he continued to live because he rode off on the horse and I think he was still bloody. I could be mistaken though - it's been a while since I sat through it.

The whole thing there is that he never rode off on the horse, because he scared the horse away way earlier and that was before all of the explosions and gunfire.

i.e., he never made it off of that chair and him "riding off" was just his ghost, really. Though obviously it was left in a manner that any future movie could just go with the LITERAL ending.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

The whole thing there is that he never rode off on the horse, because he scared the horse away way earlier and that was before all of the explosions and gunfire.

i.e., he never made it off of that chair and him "riding off" was just his ghost, really. Though obviously it was left in a manner that any future movie could just go with the LITERAL ending.

Hm.
That's really interesting.

I mean... that is interesting, but couldn't the horse simply have come back? Horses do it all the time....

Hm.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by IMJ

but couldn't the horse simply have come back? Horses do it all the time....

Hm.

Probably not 5 minutes after most of the area just exploded/imploded pretty spectacularly.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Probably not 5 minutes after most of the area just exploded/imploded pretty spectacularly.

Well. You know. "Rambo horse". So.....

[Andrew NDB]

Sounds like it's happening quickly now. No word at all about any Stallone involvement which isn't super encouraging, but he still hasn't spoken out against it.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/lionsga...l-expendables/

[Andrew NDB]

They've got their funding already. The Russo brothers (yeah, those Russo brothers) have jumped aboard as producers.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/the-rus...rambo-prequel/

[neatoman]

Do we have any word on who will play Rambo?

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by neatoman

Do we have any word on who will play Rambo?

The guy who played Atom Smasher in Black Adam Noah Centineo

https://variety.com/2025/film/global...al-1236568374/