Sylvester Stallone revealed that an AI Rambo prequel that he was engaged on was in the end scrapped. John Rambo has been certainly one of Stallone’s most iconic characters; Stallone first portrayed the character in 1982’s First Blood, then reprised it in 4 further motion pictures, the latest being 2019’s Rambo: Final Blood.
The character of Rambo is about to return to the massive display, however with The Recruit star Noah Centineo taking part in John Rambo. The brand new film, presently titled John Rambo, is about to be a prequel to First Blood, following Rambo’s time with the Inexperienced Berets in Vietnam.
Nevertheless, Stallone was engaged on a brand new Rambo challenge of his personal. In an interview with ScreenRant’s Liam Crowley for Tulsa King season 3 (premiering September 21), the subject of the Rambo prequel got here up, and Stallone stated he had the concept to make use of AI to assist recreate his youthful Rambo earlier than the John Rambo workforce took the baton. This is what Stallone needed to say:
Sylvester Stallone: I needed to do the primary AI… not retroactive… however I needed to rewrite historical past of the sooner Rambo as a result of I needed Rambo to be the nicest man within the faculty, the valedictorian, the promenade king, and all that stuff.
And when he goes to Vietnam, he thinks it may be a three-week hit-and-run, and also you see him being tortured and captured, his pals murdered, one factor after one other, and [his] life in Saigon. And that is how I grew to become the best way I grew to become, however initially I used to be bon vivant–that form of factor. And I assumed, “We could do this with AI,” however [we] procrastinated too lengthy and so they took it over and, I hope, you already know, good luck.
What This Means For The Rambo Franchise
Noah Centineo as Owen in The Recruit speaking to his girlfriend in a critical tone
Stallone has been actively concerned within the Rambo franchise from its inception. Along with starring within the motion pictures, he co-wrote the screenplay for First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Half II, Rambo III, directed and co-wrote Rambo, and co-wrote Rambo: Final Blood. Nevertheless, regardless of his personal newly revealed intentions, Stallone just isn’t concerned within the upcoming John Rambo prequel.
It is a altering of the guard for the Rambo franchise, which has been outlined by Stallone for greater than 40 years. Nevertheless, to maintain the Rambo franchise going indefinitely, a brand new actor would all the time ultimately should take over the function.
Our Take On Stallone’s Scrapped Rambo Prequel
Rambo seems over his shoulder with a scowl in entrance of his truck in Rambo: Final Blood
Whereas it’s positively bizarre that Stallone seems to haven’t any involvement in John Rambo, it might be laborious to think about that an AI-supported Rambo prequel would have been embraced with open arms.
So far as AI has come as a instrument, together with the flexibility to de-age actors, utilizing it for an entire film to create a younger John Rambo looks like it might have been pushing it. To not point out, folks typically merely have a visceral response to using AI in motion pictures and different types of artwork.
It could have been attention-grabbing to see the place Stallone needed to take the character for his Rambo story, however I believe there’s loads of motive for followers to be excited with Centineo taking up the function, with Sisu’s Jalmari Helander within the director’s chair.
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