John Rambo

**bbobb** · 02 Apr 2007, 02:27 AM

I'll download it.

**Space Pirate Roberts** · 13 May 2007, 02:19 AM

Stallone Talks "John Rambo" Ambitions
By Garth Franklin
Friday May 11th 2007 12:37am

Talking with the Italian press on the set of his upcoming sequel "John Rambo," actor/director Sylvester Stallone talked in detail about how he came up with the idea for the story on the $50 million actioneer.

Stallone says "The success of my last Rocky film offered Rambo a second life. I rewatched the previous films and I wondered, what is the current war today which goes by most unnoticed - those which immortalize genocides and violence and create mal-adjusted persons, rebels, mercenaries to wreck any peace ideal? I met war correspondents; I read a lot! Everyone that I interviewed answered me: there is a terrible political, social, religious war in Burma."

So what did he do? "I went there, I crossed the country and I wrote this story." Of course twenty years have passed and politics have changed, how will that be addressed? "Rambo was always apolitical, the others used him for subversive purposes. I continue to make my movies based on social realism. In the film, there is not a word against the USA. I want to speak about country, the truth for people of all races or classes. At the beginning of the film this man speaks once again against all wars -nobody ever walks away victorious from the horror of a conflict...The world is in the chaos because of these wars."

For the full article (albeit in Italian), click here.

**Dolemite** · 13 May 2007, 10:43 AM

I'd rather hear Sly say this:

"Yo, like, they're holdin' Col. Troutman hostage…an' I have to kill 600,000 troops single-handedly. And, like, dat's before the opening credits are even finished. Den the movie REALLY gets violent, yo!"

**Advocate** · 13 May 2007, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by Dolemite

I'd rather hear Sly say this:

"Yo, like, they're holdin' Col. Troutman hostage…an' I have to kill 600,000 troops single-handedly. And, like, dat's before the opening credits are even finished. Den the movie REALLY gets violent, yo!"

What's sad is I can totally believe him saying that when he pitched the movie to the execs.

**EvilMog** · 13 May 2007, 11:32 AM

I cant believe it has a 50 mil budget.

**Dolemite** · 13 May 2007, 12:14 PM

I'll bet almost anything Stallone has Rambo cry in this one.

Originally Posted by EvilMog

I cant believe it has a 50 mil budget.

Yeah, seriously. You'd figure they'd give him maybe 2 mil, tops.

With that 50 million, Sly should hire 49 million extras at a dollar a piece, and then spend the last million on a machine gun, unlimited ammo and blood, and just spend the entire movie gunning them down. I mean, Rambo was always about mindless violence, don't fuck that up and try to send a message or some stupid shit like that with the last installment.

**SpoDaddy** · 15 May 2007, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by Dolemite

I mean, Rambo was always about mindless violence, don't fuck that up and try to send a message or some stupid shit like that with the last installment.

Did you even see First Blood?