Rambo Iv To Be Filmed In Thailand This Oct

[Ian_B]

Oh Dear....

"Production on "Rambo IV" is finally expected to commence October 1st in Thailand and talking with Entertainment Weekly, Sylvester Stallone says a lot of the delays in the last two years which stalled the film revolved around the lack of a potential enemy.

After ruling out the Mideast, Africa, and Korea, the actor finally hit on a solution "I called Soldier of Fortune magazine and said, 'What is the most critical man-doing-inhumanity-to-man situation right now in the world? Where is it?" says Stallone. They came back with Burma (aka. Myanmar), the largest country geographically in mainland Southeast Asia.

Art Monterastelli ("The Hunted") co-wrote the script with Stallone which finds Rambo living a monastic lifestyle in Bangkok and salvaging old PT boats and tanks for scrap metal. When a group of volunteers bringing supplies into Burma disappears, a relative of one of the missing missionaries begs Rambo to find them. He heads off with a team of young guns to find them."

Taken from Dark Horizons

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060731j.php

[Kerryd]

...Sylvester Stallone says a lot of the delays in the last two years which stalled the film revolved around the lack of a potential enemy.

After ruling out the Mideast, Africa, and Korea,

Not enough "potential enemies" in those regions ? Or scared to pick on someone that might be crazy enough to take offense ?

the actor finally hit on a solution "I called Soldier of Fortune magazine and said,.....

.......They came back with Burma (aka. Myanmar), the largest country geographically in mainland Southeast Asia.

Burma ?

Not Laos, or Cambodia, or East Timor, or Indonesia. Burma.

Well, he's already taken on Canada, Vietnam and Afghanistan. Guess he couldn't find anyone weaker to beat on.

Art Monterastelli ("The Hunted") co-wrote the script with Stallone which finds Rambo living a monastic lifestyle in Bangkok and salvaging old PT boats and tanks for scrap metal.

As opposed to one of the previous movies, where he was living the monastic lifestyle, helping to refurbish a temple and kicking ass in underground fights (with the proceeds going to the temple of course).

(Just how many old PT boats and tanks were laying around Thailand after the Vietnam War, waiting to be salvaged ?)

Link to the Internet Movie Database site for Rambo IV:

Rambo IV

[britmaveric]

Sounds like a Rubbish movie, should have left well enough alone after first rambo.

[lomatopo]

Remotely related, Werner Herzog directed his latest film, Rescue Dawn (Christian Bale, Steve Zahn; Viet Nam war-era rescue tale) mostly in Thailand last year. It's due for release this year. There was a longish profile on Herzog in The New Yorker earlier this year, and the bulk of the profile documented the Thailand filming. It was quite interesting to hear about the, off-hand, financial difficulties (i.e. "shakedowns") the filming entailed.

[Phil Conners]

Maybe he's running out of pocket money.

[PeaceBlondie]

It reminds me of a scene in one of the "Back to the Future" movies where Michael J. Fox travels in the DeLorean time machine to the future, where a video store is selling copies of "Rambo 19" and "Terminator 26" or similar.

[TRIPxCORE]

Speaking of Sly Stallone, did you know that Rocky 6 is due to come out soon? Guess the guy cant get any acting jobs besides the sequels to his own movies.

Edited July 31, 2006 by TRIPxCORE

[kayo]

Rambo IV daughter

[Donz]

rambo lol

i find them halarious, its usually 1 man vs a whole army.

Yes i heard rocky 6 is comming out i wonder how he is going to do it? it would be hard for him to get back into the ring. Rocky 5 was rubbish im sure 6 will be too

[sriracha john]

Rambo about to invade Burma

Los Angeles (dpa) - More details have been released about the new instalment of Sylvester Stallone's Rambo action movie.

Stallone turned 60 last month , but the Rambo film will show he is still active.

The movie will feature Stallone as the Vietnam War veteran Rambo who is living a monastic lifestyle in Bangkok and salvaging old PT boats and tanks for scrap metal.

When a group of volunteers bringing supplies into Burma disappears, a relative of one of the missing missionaries begs Rambo to find them.

Rambo then heads off with a team of young guns to find the relative.

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A stealthy killing machine, who just happens to be a senior citizen...

Edited August 1, 2006 by sriracha john

[Tywais]

A stealthy killing machine, who just happens to be a senior citizen...

New equipment pack will now include a custom canteen with denture reservoir and a supply of viagra.

[sriracha john]

A stealthy killing machine, who just happens to be a senior citizen...

New equipment pack will now include a custom canteen with denture reservoir

Paramount Pictures just released this still photo taken during filming that shows a still-fit Sylvester Stallone as he contemplates the best method of invading Burma:

[sriracha john]

Concurrently, Sony Pictures just released this photo of the opponent Stallone will fight in the ring for Rocky VI, an 82 year-old, great-grandmother, Silvia Torres:

[The Skipper]

The sad thing is, my friends and family back home watch these movies and think that's the way it is around here.

Killing machines up-country and the city is one big whore house.

[causticme]

The sad thing is, my friends and family back home watch these movies and think that's the way it is around here.

Killing machines up-country and the city is one big whore house.

A tax write off vacation to LOS---I Am jealous!

[alexth]

" Plot Outline: Vietnam vet John Rambo is forced to emerge from his reclusive lifestyle and take justice into his own hands after his daughter gets kidnapped. "

Wasn't that from a Sylvester Stalone movie? "Belly of the beast", right? same old story, the kidnapped daughter while she was peacefully holidaying with her multinational friends.

[GoodHeart]

" Plot Outline: Vietnam vet John Rambo is forced to emerge from his reclusive lifestyle and take justice into his own hands after his daughter gets kidnapped. "

Wasn't that from a Sylvester Stalone movie? "Belly of the beast", right? same old story, the kidnapped daughter while she was peacefully holidaying with her multinational friends.

Strikes me as knock off of Schwarzenegger's 1985 Commando

Just in time for Bangkok to hold the [Dec 22] World Premiere of Rocky Balboa

[Kerryd]

" Plot Outline: Vietnam vet John Rambo is forced to emerge from his reclusive lifestyle and take justice into his own hands after his daughter gets kidnapped. "

Wasn't that from a Sylvester Stalone movie? "Belly of the beast", right? same old story, the kidnapped daughter while she was peacefully holidaying with her multinational friends.

Strikes me as knock off of Schwarzenegger's 1985 Commando

Just in time for Bangkok to hold the [Dec 22] World Premiere of Rocky Balboa

And in True Lies, it was his (Schwarzenegger's) wife that got grabbed by the baddies.

They probably have some kind of agreement where they each do movies based on the plot lines of movies the other guy already did.

[kayo]

Hmm... This whole Coup thingn could Pan out nicely for the Rambo Movie....

Maybe get them a more realistic viable and original plot..

art could imitate life....

[Fast Eddie]

"

Wasn't that from a Sylvester Stalone movie? "Belly of the beast", right? same old story, the kidnapped daughter while she was peacefully holidaying with her multinational friends.

I believe that 'Belly of the Beast' is a Steven Seagal classic waste of time. Having not seen it i cannot reassure those fighting the horrendous mental images which that title must immediately conjure up, that it is not in reference to the pony tailed, ageing, kick ass kung <deleted> star's rapidly expanding, old age girth. For some unfathomable reason he appears to be quite popular here.

[Ulysses G.]

The sad thing is, my friends and family back home watch these movies and think that's the way it is around here.

Killing machines up-country and the city is one big whore house.

Between Cobra Joe, Blinky Bill and Crazy Tony up North and Nana Plaza, Patpong and Pattaya down there. I think that your family has got it pretty much right!

[kayo]

yep I`m with Uli G on this one.

City is SIN and country is ...

[libya 115]

STOP PRESS

Rambo I and Rambo II available now from your local DVD store for 129 baht.

[Fast Eddie]

I'm actually quite looking forward to seeing Rambo 4 when it comes out. I liked Rambo when i was a kid.

[kayo]

fast eddie.. I`m sure you are not alone....

don`t ask why I`m sure, but I am...

it`s just that it is not somehting anybody admits.

(same goes for the new rocky coming out)

[kayo]

Different Sources and different stories.

Art imitates life... Gather enough information, we may fish out some triths:

In an interview with Maxim Sylvester Stallone talked about the storyline for his upcoming sequel to the "Rambo" series. "It won't be what you think - not the same Rambo with the headband," he said.

He went on to say that his storyline updates the Rambo franchise with a team of young, "high-tech combatants." Rambo is brought out of retirement to help the youngsters on a search and rescue mission in the jungle. The younger combatants "can't believe this decrepit guy is a war hero, but when their technology fails, they see where Rambo excels."

That doesn't sound cliche at all.

Stallone is hoping to make his big comeback as Rambo sometime in the next two years. More "Rambo 4" news when it happens.

Few details are known. However, a number of plot rumours have been circulating:

---Rambo leading a team of high-tech soldiers on a mission. The technology fails and Rambo teaches them the true art of guerilla warfare.

----Rambo, again working at a monastery in Thailand, is in the salvage business. Missionaries go missing and another one convinces Rambo to find them.

-----Rambo is living a monastic lifestyle in Bangkok and salvaging old PT boats and tanks for scrap metal. When a group of volunteers bringing supplies into Burma disappears, a relative of one of the missing missionaries begs Rambo to find them. He heads off with a team of young guns determined to rescue those that have been taken.[1]

In an interview for the movie Rocky Balboa, Stallone revealed the Christian themes to both Rocky VI and Rambo IV:

Interviewer commentary: "I can only imagine Rambo sneaking into Burma to free Christian missionaries who are being held by militants. And as the invincible one-man army looks into the eyes of the ordinary folks from Oklahoma and South Carolina who are risking their lives for the Gospel, he is swept up by their commitment. Oh, wait. I'm. Not. Kidding.

Stallone: "It rekindles something in him. He doesn't believe at first, he's seen too much. He's bitter. But when he meets these people and looks into their eyes, he's swept up in it, and literally he's just taken on this journey," Stallone said. "He's a Christian warrior! Can you believe it?"

In 2002, Stallone came up with the idea of making the fourth Rambo movie, with Rambo going back to Afghanistan to hunt down Osama Bin Laden. This idea was later scrapped for a less socially unnerving plot.

Yet another terrorist plot was considered. Referred to as Rambo IV: Holy War, this version has Rambo as an environmentalist working in New York for the United Nations. The UN Assembly is hijacked by terrorists, one of which is Tomask (the boy from Rambo III). It is also revealed in this version that Rambo has become a Sufi Muslim.

--- Jackie Chan had been approached a few years ago about playing the villain in Rambo IV, but turned it down since he feels that a lot of kids look up to him and he wants to be a good role model. Additionally the character was a drug dealer and Chan supposedly has a personal reason for not wanting to play any character associated with drugs.

----In 1997 when Miramax owned the rights to the franchise, they wanted to make Rambo IV. The story was that John Rambo is recruited by the government to infiltrate a right wing militia group. Brian Dennehy was to reprise his role as the sheriff from First Blood. There were about three variations of the militia story.

-----Some variations of the film include the idea that Rambo's 'hands-on' approach to warfare is superior than a high-tech style employed by a younger group of soldiers.

----One idea for the movie seemed to be inspired by the films Commando and The Fugitive: Rambo living peacefully with his wife & daughter until his daughter is kidnapped. Rambo then returns to his old ways and seeks justice.

Also, according to some reports on IMDB.com, there may also be a fugitive wrongfully accused of war crimes on the loose from the United States. Rambo and the fugitive meet and then begin to work together to clear the fugitive's name and also free Rambo's daughter. For quite some time, this was thought to be the plot for the film until Entertainment Weekly reported differently in July 2006[2]. This version is still being reported at the Rambo IV page on IMDB.com[3]

Edited December 6, 2006 by kayo

[Little Black Duck]

It's Really Amazing what can be done with Computer Animation they can even make a Geriatric like "Sly" look good and remove his walker..

[tolsti]

Well, according to the BBC he may be in Thailand at the mo.... after a wee bit of trouble in Oz...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6444401.stm

and there was me thinking that all those muscles were the result of hard work!!!