Here’s a preview for the last Rambo movie – Rambo: Last Blood. Wasn’t the movie I had hoped for, but, worth watching. There was another script idea for the last Rambo. I’ll see if I can find it. Kinda crazy but sounded really exciting.
An Early Rambo 5 Script Had Sylvester Stallone Fighting A Monster Back in 2009, just one year after Rambo’s release, Sylvester Stallone was already working on a fifth movie called Rambo V: The Savage Hunt, where John Rambo, a new companion named Beau Brady, and a team of soldiers faced a genetically engineered being designed to be a perfect killing machine in the Arctic circle (via Ain’t It Cool News). Logically, the only person who can stop the bioengineered abomination would be a similarly unstoppable force, John Rambo himself. With a monster villain and a more claustrophobic setting, Rambo V: The Savage Hunt would have leaned more into the slasher genre than the previous movies’ action extravaganza. Rambo V: The Savage Hunt would have been a modified adaptation of James Byron Huggins’ 1999 novel Hunter, which had the exact same premise, but was led by an expert tracker called Nathaniel Hunter and his wolf Ghost. The project progressed in the development stage with a script, an official title, and Sylvester Stallone attached, but it soon got scrapped in favor of an earlier concept, which dropped Rambo V: The Savage Hunt’s sci-fi inspirations and laid the foundations for the kidnapping storyline that would become Rambo: Last Blood. While Last Blood was certainly more in keeping with the wider Rambo franchise, the sci-fi spin remains a tantalizing missed opportunity.
I think this would have been better than what was actually made.
Who knows?
Rourke
