Wayyyyy back in 1982 the world was introduced to Vietnam War veteran John Rambo in the film First Blood and was very much the better for it. And now, thirty-six years later, it sounds like Rambo still has some unfinished business he has to take care of down Mexico way.
However, this is not the first time Sylvester Stallone has teased with another appearance of Rambo.
Back in 2008, Sly said he was “half-way through” writing Rambo 5. Back then the plot was said to involve Rambo’s daughter being kidnapped by the leaders of a cult.Then in 2009, after getting the green-light from Millennium Films, and the plot was rumored to “revolve around Rambo fighting his way through human traffickers and drug lords to rescue a young girl abducted near the U.S.-Mexico border.”
Stallone later said in 2009 the film would instead be loosely based on the 1999 James Byron Huggins novel Hunter and called Rambo V: The Savage Hunt. Then the plot reportedly went back to involving Mexico.
In 2010, Stallone told Empire, “I think Rambo’s pretty well done. I don’t think there’ll be any more. I’m about 99% sure. […] for Rambo to go on another adventure might be, I think, misinterpreted as a mercenary gesture and not necessary. I don’t want that to happen.”
In 2011, a script titled Rambo: Last Stand was written and in 2012 Stallone said, “I’m dying to do another Rambo.”
Then, in late 2014, Stallone said he was going to make Rambo: Last Blood.
— Sylvester Stallone (@TheSlyStallone) December 28, 2014
