Rambo: The Franchise

[muthagoose]

LOS ANGELES Oct 29, 2005 — Rambo is back in business. Sylvester Stallone will reprise his role as gun-toting John Rambo in the upcoming "Rambo IV," said Ben Nedivi of Millennium Films, which is producing the project with Emmett/Furla Films.

The 59-year-old Stallone also intends to bring boxer Rocky Balboa out of retirement. He will write and direct "Rocky Balboa," the sixth film in that franchise, with shooting set to begin next year.



Nedivi said the $50 million "Rambo IV" will recapture the rawness of "First Blood," which launched the franchise in 1982.

Production is set to begin after "Rocky Balboa" wraps.

Michelle Bega, a spokeswoman for Stallone, said the actor wasn't available for comment Friday.

A new "Rambo" script hasn't yet been written, but the story calls for the reclusive Vietnam veteran to return to his vigilante ways when a young girl is kidnapped.

The first three films grossed a combined $614 million worldwide.

Tommy Lee Jones is in talks to join the cast of Rambo 4 reports Stallone Zone. Jones would play the role of Colonel Trautman, previously played by Richard Crenna in the first three movies. The story centers on former Vietnam vet John Rambo, who is living a reclusive life back home in the U.S. But when a girl goes missing, he is forced to abandon his quiet lifestyle and take justice into his own hands.

[Captain Obvious]

For some reason, I just can't see Rambo living the "quiet lifestyle"

[CaticusRex]

Think of Rambo IV as the beginning of Comando...

Fade in to scene of John Rambo cutting down some tree and carrying them back to his cabin. Suddenly he senses something...what can it be?
He waits, listens and prepares to strike, then we see what has been following him...its his daughter JENNY!!!!
The music gets all light and cheery as they frolic in the pool and make breakfast!

AH, what a wonderful way to start Rambo IV!

[muthagoose]

Rambo IV: In The Serpent’s Eye

Production Weekly is reporting that Sylvester Stallone is set to reprise his role of Vietnam vet John Rambo, in the third sequel in the “Rambo” franchise. Stallone will also produce and direct the film based on his own script titled, “Rambo IV: In The Serpent’s Eye.” Production is tentatively slated for January in Thailand.

The next chapter finds Rambo recruited by a group of Christian human rights missionaries to protect them against pirates, during a humanitarian aid deliver to the persecuted Karen people of Burma. After some of the missionaries are taken prisoner by sadistic Burmese soldiers, Rambo gets a second impossible job: to assemble a team of mercenaries to rescue the surviving relief workers.

[muthagoose]

RAMBO IV: Officially titled "John Rambo"

Sai Mawng, a 40-year-old retired Shan resistance officer, has been enlisted to play the role of a barbarous Burmese commander in Sly Stallone's upcoming fourth "Rambo" film.

Revealing a title change to the simpler moniker of "John Rambo" this week in Australia, Stallone confirms that principal photograpy is slated to officially begin this Friday.

Burmanet though revealed the new casting addition, and word that some filming has already being taken place in Keudchang, a village tract in the Mae Taeng district of Thailand's Chiang Mai province.



Mawng used to serve with Lt-Col Khun Kyaw, Commander of the Shan State Army (SSA) South's 241st Brigade who is currently languishing in a Burmese prison after being forced to surrender early last year.

According to the story line posted by the film crew, Rambo is hired by Christian missionaries while working as a snake hunter in Thailand to deliver medical and religious supplies to the persecuted Karens of Burma. The missionaries are captured and Rambo is saddled with the job of rescuing the surviving missionaries.

Shan migrants sare said to offered themselves to play as Burmese soldiers in exchange for 300 baht ($ 8.6) per day plus meals for two months.

[muthagoose]

First official JOHN RAMBO teaser trailer

The first official Trailer (sorry for the YouTube link) has made its gory debut on the net and it may be the bloodiest thing since Dead Alive. Good ole' Johnny R. takes out about 50 people in the trailer ALONE. One unfortunate his throat ripped out, one guy loses his head by Rambo's machete, while another gets turned into pulp (literally) by a mounted machine gun. Sly is directing this one and they are aiming at a summer 2008 release.

View this cinematic masterpiece:

youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6i090FGzQ




Muthagoose says: This will likely be one Mav Himself and El Stallion's favorite flicks and quite possibly the film of the year!

[muthagoose]

New "Rambo" Has Biggest Body Count

"Rambo", the upcoming fourth film in the Sylvester Stallone-led action series, has the biggest body count by far of the series according to The Los Angeles Times.

Film writer John Mueller made a comparison list of the body counts in the previous films. The biggest difference is that Rambo keeps his shirt on throughout, Rambo is barely shot at, and there's actually less torture scenes than both the sequels. Here's the comparison of most stats:

"First Blood" (1982)
Total Body Count: 1
Kill Count Per Minute: 0.01
Torture Scenes: 2
Time of First Death In Film: 29min 31sec
Good Guys Killed: 0
Bad Guys Killed By Rambo: 0
Bad Guys Killed By Supporting Characters: 0

"Rambo: First Blood Part II" (1985)
Total Body Count: 69
Kill Count Per Minute: 0.72
Torture Scenes: 5
Time of First Death In Film: 33min 34sec
Good Guys Killed: 1
Bad Guys Killed By Rambo: 58
Bad Guys Killed By Supporting Characters: 10

"Rambo III" (1988)
Total Body Count: 132
Kill Count Per Minute: 1.3
Torture Scenes: 7
Time of First Death In Film: 41min 9sec
Good Guys Killed: 37
Bad Guys Killed By Rambo: 78
Bad Guys Killed By Supporting Characters: 17

"Rambo" (2008)
Total Body Count: 236
Kill Count Per Minute: 2.59
Torture Scenes: 3
Time of First Death In Film: 3min 22sec
Good Guys Killed: 113
Bad Guys Killed By Rambo: 83
Bad Guys Killed By Supporting Characters: 40

[muthagoose]

Fifth "Rambo" Planned

Harvey Weinstein tells Deadline Hollywood Daily that another "Rambo" sequel is already planned and will involve "bringing the character back to the United States."

The comments come after the fourth film "Rambo" opened to a solid but unspectacular $18.1 million and second place spot over the weekend. Weinstein is bullish over its economic prospects, despite "Rambo III" taking in $53m domestic back in 1988 - an amount this "Rambo" isn't expected to top despite two decades of inflation.

Weinstein's hopes lie in the international market as the "Rambo" films, like the James Bond series, have consistently made 75% of their profit overseas - a quite different margin than other action franchises like superhero films or the Jason Bourne series which earn notably more domestically than internationally.

Yet analysts predict Harv may be disappointed with global totals considering the political climate change in the past two decades, and the anti-American sentiment (or more specifically the anti-Bush sentiment) that has pervaded even other Western cultures in the post-Iraq environment.

[LotB]

That'll be awesome if they make a fifth Rambo movie. I quite enjoyed the fourth one.