No more Rambo

Posted on May 4, 2010
Filed Under Actors, Actresses, Sequel

I was just over at Empire and apparently they’ve got the latest on the ever circulating rumours about yet another Rambo movie. We’re now at number 4 and if another one goes in to production it would most certainly be referred to as “Rambo V” (for those of you not keeping count…) So, when Empire spoke to Sylvester Stallone they took the time to ask him for the definitive take on the fifth big-screen adventure. His answer? 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?”

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.”

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