Rambo V story takes a new course

Posted on November 16, 2009
Filed Under Actors, News, Sequel

I was just over at Dark Horizons and they had a little update on the upcoming “Rambo V” production. A couple of months ago we could read that the “Rambo V” story would take the sci-fi road (or at least a cousin to the sci-fi road) and flirt a little with films like “Predator.” But now Sylvester Stallone has made an official announcement, telling us that the story for the upcoming fifth “Rambo” feature, ‘A Savage Hunt’, has changed.

“I’m letting you know that Rambo has changed course and the story about hunting the man/beast will be done using another character in the lead. ‘Rambo’ himself will be heading over the border to a violent city where many young women have vanished. There will be blood.”

The man/beast storyline he’s referring to had John Rambo hunting a genetically engineered creature which has escaped from a lab in the Pacific Northwest. That story, based on James Byron Huggins‘ novel “Hunter“, will now become a separate film in itself.

Good or bad? I don’t know. This way Stallone stays true to the “Rambo concept”, but on the other hand maybe this would have given the franchise an energy boost?

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