With the bloody awesome that ensued in "Rambo" and the hopefully bloody awesome contained in next year's "The Expendables," there is absolutely no reason that today's announcement of a fifth "Rambo" film should be anything but bloody awesome news.
According to Variety, Sylvester Stallone is officially planning a sequel to last year's "Rambo," which he will once again direct and star in for Nu Image/Millennium Films. Production is expected to start in the spring of 2010.
Variety describes the plot of the untitled "Rambo" sequel as revolving around "Rambo fighting his way through human traffickers and drug lords to rescue a young girl abducted near the U.S.-Mexico border."
The fourth and most recent installment in the franchise depicted an aged John Rambo, now living in a Thailand village near the Burmese border. A group of missionaries are abducted by Burmese soldiers and Rambo attempts a rescue mission alongside a crew of highly trained mercenaries.
And man, I just cannot say enough about these mercenaries. While I can barely recall a single one of these characters by name or face, their actions speak volumes. Rambo himself is hardcore enough, but the enlistment of these heavily-armed and ready-to-kill mercs provided for one of the single greatest action films of the last decade -- something that was probably unexpected given Stallone's age.
But as any '80s-era action fan will attest, Stallone still has it. The violence of "Rambo" was truly a spectacle to behold, even if the movie itself wasn't a particularly deep one. I've got nothing but high hopes for "The Expendables," which features an ensemble that would make even "Machete's" cast turn red, and if a fifth "Rambo" follows the mold of Stallone's most recent efforts, then we're in for another bloody awesome treat.
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