Rumor Patrol: RAMBO IV?

By: News Editor
Date: Sunday, May 29, 2005
Source: Scoop

Nu Image/Millennium Films has apparently acquired the film rights from Miramax/Dimension Films for the RAMBO franchise. The company plans to start filming on RAMBO IV in Bulgaria in January 2006.

Reports state that Sylvester Stallone signed to begin writing the script for RAMBO IV based on book that was optioned. According to Stallone, the new plotline sees the character of Rambo as having "assimilated into the tapestry of America", living with his family in relative peace for the past fifteen years but still working for the military, when work pressures force him to move his family to the American outback. The Navajo-Indian former Green Beret and his family are then subject to an attack by white-supremacists, and Rambo has to risk life-and-limb in rescuing his 10-year old daughter from being held hostage.

Nu Image/Millennium Films has persuaded Stallone to co-star with a younger actor in the film. The company says, "If No. 4 works, then you have a No. 5."

Thanks to AB for the note.