Greater than 40 years after originating the function in First Blood (1982), Sylvester Stallone doesn’t appear all that able to say goodbye to Rambo.
With Noah Centineo in talks for a Rambo prequel, the 3x Oscar nominee and one in every of Trump‘s Particular Ambassadors for Hollywood just lately revealed that he pitched his personal “refined” AI de-aged portrayal for an installment a couple of teen Rambo.
“Everybody thought I used to be loopy,” mentioned Stallone on The Playlist‘s Bingeworthy podcast. “AI is refined sufficient to undergo Saigon to see him at 18 years previous and mainly use the identical picture. So it isn’t as huge a stretch.”
Amid Centineo’s potential casting in Millennium Media’s bundle for John Rambo, directed by Jalmari Helander from a script by Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani, Deadline reported that Stallone was conscious however not concerned.
Stallone cautioned anybody taking up the function throughout his podcast look. “It’s very, very onerous. He might do a stellar job, however you’re overcoming this as a result of I went via it with Get Carter. Everybody loves the unique, and you then’re all the time combating that prejudice,” he defined.
Sylvester Stallone attends the ‘Tulsa King’ Season 3 premiere on Sept. 16, 2025 in New York Metropolis.
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The prequel’s plot is below wraps, however it can discover the origin story of a younger John Rambo in the course of the Vietnam Battle. Created by David Morell in his novel First Blood (1972), Stallone play the veteran Inexperienced Beret in 5 motion pictures, producing greater than $800 million worldwide; the latest, 2019’s Rambo: Final Blood, produced by Millennium and Sly’s Balboa, made $92M on the field workplace.
Sources inform Deadline the plan is to shoot the Rambo prequel on the high of 2026 in Thailand. Releasing the final two pics within the franchise, Lionsgate is the front-runner to land the bundle.
