Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Sylvester Stallone has apparently dropped a line to Craig Zablo over at the Stallone Zone and he updated the direction Rambo V will be taking.
The Screening Log (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Sylvester Stallone seems to be unable to make up his mind where "Rambo V" should be heading. First, he was supposed to cross the U.S.-Mexican border, and then, he was supposed to hunt down a beast. Not anymore. In fact, it looks like the fifth installment in the "Rambo" series is now going back to Mexico. As we learned earlier this year, the original idea had our hero cross the...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Sylvester Stallone scraps plans to take the Rambo franchise into the realm of science fiction.
Movie news, trailers, photos (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Remember the story that was supposed to be “Rambo 5: The Savage Hun”: The army claims to John Rambo desperately as the only solution to a problem that knows no Rambo must face, deal with a beast that is on the loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle. Well, Sylvester Stallone has made some pearls today [...]
Atomic Popcorn (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Deep down, I think we all knew it was too weird to be true. Sylvester Stallone had been talking a while back about how the fifth entry in the Rambo franchise would feature his character hunting down a genetically engineered monster. If ever there was a shark to be jumped or a fridge to be [...]
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
THE origins and development of the Greenpeace movement is to be turned into a new movie. Jon Turteltaub is to direct the film, according to Variety, which will be set primarily in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s through the eyes of founding members Bob Hunter and Rex Weyler. The screenplay is based on two novels: Weyler’s own Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
THE fifth Rambo movie will no longer see Sylvester Stallone’s Vietnam vet hunting man-beast super soldiers. Originally dubbed The Savage Hunt , the film was to have seen John Rambo returning to the Pacific Northwest to lead a squad of soldiers into a secret military base to hunt down the feral soldiers after a military experiment had gone wrong. But Empire is now reporting that Stallone has back-tracked,...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
A while back, Stallone announced that Rambo V was in the pipeline. It's plot was to take a decidedly sci-fi turn that previous Rambo films had not yet ventured towards. The film was to center around a US Military installation experimenting on its soldiers to "tap into [the] savagery that we have deeply embedded [inside] us." Basically, these elite soldiers are to become purely instinctual...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Stallone drops one Rambo V plot, picks up...
Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
OK, so remember that weird storyline for the fifth Rambo movie? Stallone fighting supersoldiers? That's done. It sounds like now, Sly will return to the original plot involving human trafficking south of the border. In a letter to StalloneZone , the star-writer-director announced that the film will "change course." The title had been changed to Rambo V: The Savage Hunt , a reflection of...
Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
' Rambo has changed course and the story about hunting the man/beast will be done using another character in the lead,' so read an email written by Sylvester Stallone about the fifth ' Rambo ' film.
Vulture (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
A couple months ago the plot for Rambo V was revealed: a bizarre genetically-engineered creature escapes from a military installation and Rambo and a group of other strong men are hired to hunt it down. The internet did not approve. Now Sylvester Stallone, who does nothing if not listen to the internet, has changed the film's plot. No longer will it be based on the novel Hunter by James Byron Huggins,...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
No longer a stupid Predator rip-off.
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Okay, so it turns out the fifth "Rambo" actually won't feature Stallone fighting a monster. According to new information directly from the Stallone Zone, the franchise's next sequel will follow a decidedly more traditional path.
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