Stallone Sets Up ‘Rambo V’ With A Sci-Fi Twist

Sylvester Stallone is setting the record straight on the plot for his upcoming turn as John Rambo, and it’s raising a few eyebrows.

While Variety and The Hollywood Reporter claimed the story for “Rambo V” involved human trafficking on the US / Mexico border, Sly set the record straight with Harry Knowles from Ain’t It Cool News:

You see, it is set in the Pacific Northwest. Back in the general area where we first were introduced to John. It seems that somewhere in that Area there is a U.S. Military installation that is doing experiments on elite soldiers as part of some sort of program where they’re attempting to tap into that SAVAGERY that we have deeply embedded into us. The plan is create brilliantly instinctual killer soldiers that have no qualms about taking life. Sly brought up the ancient Immortals, which were cartoonishly glimpsed in 300. In reality, they were children trained from the time they were infants to kill.

Well as happens with Government Experiments to create the perfect killer – it goes exceptionally well… and then exceptionally badly. And Rambo is brought in with a Black Ops squad (“Like in PREDATOR”) to hunt, capture or kill this worse than Rambo killer.

This account was backed up by a faxed-out synopsis of the movie, now in pre-production. The title’s now confirmed (for the time being) as “Rambo V: The Savage Hunt,” and there’s a concept poster that was slapped together using artwork from “Rambo” (the fourth movie) and what looks like a wolf. Oooooh.

While it’s important to take this with a massive shaker of salt – details change, scripts get re-written, moths flap their wings in China – it’s intriguing to think that Rambo gets away from the whole “one-man army” he’s been for the last three films and goes into a little more fantasy territory. G4 ran “Rambo: First Blood, Part Two” last weekend, and while it’s cartoonish jingoistic fare, it was still a fun piece of revenge moviemaking. With this bit of hype, it’s reviving interest in Rambo that isn’t a hundred percent snark.