Rambo V: The Savage Hunt

Rambo V Is A Savage Hunt

A week ago we brought you the report from all the trades that Rambo 5 had been greenlit by Nu Image / Millennium, and that the story would be a Taken-like rescue mission set on the Mexican border. It turns out only half that story is correct, as Sylvester Stallone explained to Harry Knowles at the awesome Ain't It Cool.

The true plot, according to Sly, is much stranger, borderline sci-fi territory for the lunkish Vietnam vet. Set back in the Pacific Northwest where the whole saga began, it involves a secret US military installation where experiments are being carried out on elite soldiers, with a view to enhancing their primal savagery. This, needless to say, Ends Badly, and one John Rambo is brought in with a squad to shut the place down.

Now, when you hear about genetically enhanced super-soldiers, you may immediately think of Universal Soldier, or perhaps Paul WS Anderson's Kurt Russel sci-fi epic Soldier. But you would be wrong to think that, and Sly is way ahead of you. In another message on Harry's answerphone, he explains further:

"It's not a super-soldier, it's a feral beast; a thing. It’s this amalgamation of fury and intelligence and pure unadulterated rage, from before men became human – it’s inhuman! It's man's 'conscious' fighting his dark, uncontrollable unconscious. It has absolute cunning and intelligence and a will to survive that is only matched by Rambo’s."

A bit like Predator then, although Sly prefers Forbidden Planet ("where the doctor couldn't control his mind and his subconscious took over and became a savage killing machine") as an analogy.

So where the fourth instalment was rooted in a version of reality (Burma, mercenaries, missionaries), Rambo V: The Savage Hunt, as we're now to call it, will be running off in a far more fantastical direction. The poster above was knocked up for the Toronto Film Festival. Shooting starts in the spring.

I don't think figuring out the name of the porno based on this flick will be hard.

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It'll be one of those au-naturale ones, no doubt.

Didn't see the new Rambo yet. Still kind of want to. Heard it was solid. If Sly can still make entertaining movies based on his popular characters, I say go for it.

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Rambo 4 was pretty slick. A little too much set up for the villains, showing how evil they were, made you really hate them, but it reached a level where it wasn't too much fun anymore, cause they were raping and killing and child molesting, and sure, the payback was cool, but they went overboard.

But the parts where Rambo is kicking ass is really really awesome...

Rambo ass-kickery is cool. These days action flicks have to transcend the 80's cliches. Die Hard set the mark, then a slew of movies almost killed the mega action genre.

For a second I thought this movie was called Rambo 5: The Scavenger Hunt. Like they're going to run around the jungle looking for shit.

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Rambo fives plot sounds terrible. But I will wait for the trailer...

It may be alright, but I hope they make it realistic because some of the stuff Sly was coming out with was just completely freaky.

Whidden wrote:

Rambo fives plot sounds terrible. But I will wait for the trailer...

I agree, wait for the trailer. When I heard about the last Rambo, I groaned, but when I saw the trailer, I was all excited to see it.

Rambooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 5 I am waiting for it

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