Rambo returns for one last mission
CANNES, France: Rambo is back on the warpath. US fi lm star Sylvester Stallone has revealed that his muscle-packed combat hero Rambo is getting ready to draw blood again in a fi fth sequel next year.
Stallone — now 71 — posted a teaser poster on his Instagram account late on Tuesday, showing a graffiti- style image of Hollywood’s most famous Vietnam veteran kneeling with his signature knife and the words: “Rambo V. Fall 2019.”
“Something wicked is coming this way,” the actor commented in a caption, a decade after his character last strapped on his famous headband and fi red a hail of bullets at ruthless rogue soldiers in confl ict-torn Myanmar.
The fi lm’s producers, Millennium Media, are selling the international rights for “Rambo V” at the Cannes fi lm festival, which opened on Tuesday.
The latest instalment in the franchise — launched with “Bad Blood” in 1982 — is slated to start fi lming in September in several locations including London, Bulgaria and the Canary Islands, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
In the new movie, John Rambo has swapped blood- drenched jungles for quiet ranch living in Arizona as he struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder.
But when a friend’s granddaughter is kidnapped by a Mexican sex-trafficking cartel, Rambo cannot but jump back into action and join the hunt for the missing girl.
What ensues promises “a violent descent into hell”, said Hollywood Reporter. — AFP