Despite the news that Sylvester Stallone is going to be directing a movie on the great writer Edgar Allen Poe it’s pretty certain that the next step in the Rambo franchise is on.
According to Moviehole filming for Rambo IV is set to being in Bulgaria in January 2006 and moving to India and finally the USA. They also have details of the storyline:
According to Stallone, the new plotline sees the character of Rambo as having “assimilated into the tapestry of America”, living with his family – including daughter – 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.
Stallone will be bringing in a new, younger actor for this movie and it definitely sounds like he’ll be handing over the baton for the lead.
Nu Image/ Millennium Films acquired the rights to the ‘Rambo’ film franchise, with their chairman, Avi Lerner, stating that Stallone is “one of the smartest guys I know.” Having persuaded Stallone to co-star with a younger actor in ‘Rambo IV’, Lerner is confident about the film’s future success. “It’s a franchise,” he says. “If No. 4 works, then you have a No. 5.”
