Nu Image/Millennium
Films are developing a new Rambo movie with Brooks McLaren ("Line of Sight"
- in development) to write the script and Ariel Vromen ("The Iceman")
to direct.
Titled Rambo: New
Blood, the film will be a reboot of the seminal 1980s action franchise starring
Sylvester Stallone, who is not returning to reprise the role. Instead, the new
project will see a young actor step into Stallone's shoes.
Furthermore, Millennium
is taking inspiration from James Bond, and is looking at John Rambo as a
character that could (in the long run) be played by different actors.
Created by David
Morrell for his 1972 novel First Blood, Hollywood's first adaptation of the
character was in 1982 with Stallone in a career defining moment. The action
drama looked at the various issues, including PTSD, Vietnam veterans had awaiting
them upon their return home.
A sequel, Rambo:
First Blood Part II, came out just three years later in 1985 with Stallone once
again starring in the lead titular role, but this time the once thoughtful drama
was mostly replaced with action set pieces as Rambo made his way through the
jungles of Vietnam on a top-secret covert mission. Three years later in 1988,
Rambo III opened in theaters and saw the character traveling to Afghanistan to
fight the invading USSR forces.
Rambo laid dormant
for the next twenty years, and in 2008 Stallone woke him up to rescue a group
of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped in war-torn Burma by the ruthless
local infantry unit.
No plot details have
been given at this point as the script is still in early development.
Source - THR
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