Rambo (Rambo IV)

[Brian in Mesa]

Rambo to Face The Serpent's Eye?
Source: Production Weekly
October 6, 2006

According to Production Weekly, Sylvester Stallone will reprise the role of Vietnam vet John Rambo in a fourth "Rambo" film.

The site says that Stallone is set to produce and direct the sequel based on his own script titled, Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye. Production is tentatively scheduled 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.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Could someone please change the title to:

Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye

Thanks, BIM

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Weinsteins Sue Over Rambo IV Rights
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
October 16, 2006

In 2004, rights to produce Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye were transferred by the The Weinstein Company to a predecessor of film producer Nu Image, which has the action sequel in active development with Sylvester Stallone to reprise the role of Vietnam vet John Rambo.

But in a suit filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the Weinsteins claim that Nu Image recently offered distribution rights to Lionsgate, even though The Weinstein Company is supposed to have first right of refusal on the franchise.

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.

Production is tentatively scheduled for January in Thailand.

 

[Mulli]

Must see this. Cannot control myself. Something has control over me. Save me.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Could someone please change the title to:

John Rambo (Rambo IV)

Thanks, BIM

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The Name's Rambo, John Rambo
Source: Moviehole
February 20, 2007

Moviehole received word that Sylvester Stallone has thrown out the name Rambo IV: Pearl of the Cobra for the fourth installment of the franchise:

Not sure if this is common knowledge or not. On the news tonight, when Stallone was being interviewed by Richard Wilkins, he said that the name of the 4th Rambo film is going to be called John Rambo, in keeping with the "Rocky Balboa" thing.

The movie starts shooting on February 23 in Thailand.

 

[Renz]

On the news tonight, when Stallone was being interviewed by Richard Wilkins, he said that the name of the 4th Rambo film is going to be called John Rambo, in keeping with the "Rocky Balboa" thing.

 

[Mulli]

 

[jenna2891]

"john rambo" is cracking me up.

 

[D-Dogg]

I'm as excited for this as I was for Rocky Balboa.

 

[Mulli]

I didn't want any part of Rocky Balboa but it was a good movie. Reading a bit more about the plot of John Rambo.

 

[abomb]

Not sure if this is common knowledge or not. On the news tonight, when Stallone was being interviewed by Richard Wilkins, he said that the name of the 4th Rambo film is going to be called John Rambo, in keeping with the "Rocky Balboa" thing.

Does that mean that "Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti" is next?

 

[Mulli]

Does that mean that "Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti" is next?

5/5

"You're the disease. I'm the cure!"

 

[schutd]

They drew first blood, not me. They drew first blood

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Retired Rebel Soldier is Rambo's Nemesis
Source: Reuters
March 1, 2007

A retired rebel soldier from the jungles of eastern Myanmar has been plucked from obscurity to play a brutal Burmese officer opposite Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone in his latest "Rambo" movie.

Reuters reports that Sai Mawng, 40, an ex-guerrilla from the Shan State Army, which has been fighting for independence in the former Burma since 1948, was picked from nearly 300 applicants for the part.

The producers of John Rambo had reportedly been looking for a "Burmese male, 32-40, military-looking man, character face, unlikeable."

In the movie, renegade Vietnam War veteran John Rambo comes out of retirement as a boat repairman in Bangkok to track down missionary aid workers who have disappeared in the jungles of impoverished Myanmar.

The movie is being filmed in a village near the city of Chiang Mai.

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"We like this guy because he's the least likeable."

 

[AussieCardinal]

Does that mean that "Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti" is next?

I'd pay to see a sequel to Cobra

 

[redheat]

Rambo IV

http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/05/19/john-rambo-iv-feature-trailer/

Tough!!!

 

[Linderbee]

That was very graphically violent--wow.

Julie Benz of Buffy/Angel fame is in it--Yay!

 

[Shane]

The brutality in that trailer is fricken AWESOME!

 

[Heucrazy]

:notworthy

 

[Linderbee]

I visted the city where they filmed First Blood during a family vacation. They say it's Oregon in the movie but it's actually Hope, British Columbia. I made my dad drive that way after visiting Vancouver on our way back to Seattle.

Absolutely beautiful place.... when I enter the witness protection program I am totally asking to go there.

So what the heck happened between Oct. 2005 and now that you HATE Canada so much?

 

[PortlandCardFan]

Wow!!!

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Rambo

Release Date: January 25, 2008
Studio: Lionsgate
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Screenwriter: Sylvester Stallone
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for strong graphic bloody violence, sexual assaults, grisly images and language)
Website: Rambo

Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Rey Gallegos, Tim Kang, Jake LaBotz, Maung Maung Khin, Ken Howard

Plot Summary: Twenty years after the last film in the series, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) has retreated to northern Thailand, where he's running a longboat on the Salween River. On the nearby Thai-Burma (Myanmar) border, the world's longest-running civil war, the Burmese-Karen conflict, rages into its 60th year. But Rambo, who lives a solitary, simple life in the mountains and jungles fishing and catching poisonous snakes to sell, has long given up fighting, even as medics, mercenaries, rebels and peace workers pass by on their way to the war-torn region.

That all changes when a group of human rights missionaries search out the "American river guide" John Rambo. When Sarah (Julie Benz) and Michael Bennett (Paul Schulze) approach him, they explain that since last year's trek to the refugee camps, the Burmese military has laid landmines along the road, making it too dangerous for overland travel. They ask Rambo to guide them up the Salween and drop them off, so they can deliver medical supplies and food to the Karen tribe. After initially refusing to cross into Burma, Rambo takes them, dropping off Sarah, Michael and the aid workers...

Less than two weeks later, pastor Arthur Marsh (Ken Howard) finds Rambo and tells him the aid workers did not return and the embassies have not helped locate them. He tells Rambo he's mortgaged his home and raised money from his congregation to hire mercenaries to get the missionaries, who are being held captive by the Burmese army. Although the United States military trained him to be a lethal super soldier in Vietnam, decades later Rambo's reluctance for violence and conflict are palpable, his scars faded, yet visible. However, the lone warrior knows what he must do...

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[nathan]

I liked it. Lots of action.

 

[PortlandCardFan]

You know... this was pretty decent. I was expecting something totally different. I give a C+ just shy of a B-...

 

[Stout]

I enjoyed this movie, a lot. They didn't have the cheesy military guy recruiting him for one more mission. Instead, it was a somewhat believable situation. The other cool thing about this film is the reality of the violence. It was in your face, and it showed how gruesome this kind of fighting really is.