Thursday
12Nov2009
Stallone Reverses Field on 'Rambo V' Story
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 9:55PM
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."
"I’m letting you know that Rambo has changed course and the story about hunting the man/beast will be done using another character in the lead. Rambo himself will be heading over the border to a violent city where many young women have vanished."To me, that means a completely different movie ("another character in the lead"), and if that's true, then it's a good sign. The lo-fi is what Rambo is all about, and the abduction story in Mexico is much closer to the heart of the series. I even thought the fourth movie had a good set-up, but it became a little too much about the gunplay, which if you go back to First Blood, you'll see should only be punctuation in these movies and not the noun and the verb. Now, interestingly, just two months ago, Stallone defended the man/beast thing for the fifth movie, responding to fan reactions to the announcement. "I don't want to keep repeating myself and just doing films about war," he said. "This is a very psychological film about sophisticated man fighting primitive man." Or not.
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