Rambo is ready to return, with a prequel venture within the pipe from Sisu and Huge Recreation director Jalmari Helander. In keeping with Deadline, Millennium Media is at the moment launching the movie – referred to as John Rambo – on the Cannes market.
The Cannes market is an occasion that runs through the Cannes Movie Pageant, and it’s the place upcoming movie tasks which might be nonetheless in search of funding or distribution companions are revealed and flaunted to potential traders. Millennium Media, identified for the Expendables and Has Fallen sequence, was one of many manufacturing corporations behind 2008’s Rambo and 2019’s Rambo: Final Blood.
Nothing is understood about John Rambo’s plot past the truth that will probably be set through the Vietnam Conflict and function a prequel to 1982’s iconic First Blood. No casting has been finalised. Deadline experiences that authentic Rambo star Sylvester Stallone is conscious of the venture however isn’t concerned at this stage.
The script for John Rambo has been written by Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani (The Mauritanian, Black Adam) and it’s deliberate to start taking pictures in Thailand from October.
As surprising as a Rambo prequel could also be, Helander’s carnage-filled 2023 WWII motion movie Sisu (which basically turned John Wick into an aged Finnish commando and set him unfastened in opposition to Nazis retreating from Finland following the Lapland Conflict) signifies he’s actually as much as the job.
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