Entertainment Weekly: Rambo Returns

 

The August 4, 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly features a full page article by Mandi Bierly titled "Rambo Returns." Here are some excerpts:

  • "... production on "Rambo IV" (final title to be determined) is finally expected to commence on Oct.1 in
    Thailand."

  • "... finding Rambo a fresh foe was actually a serious problem..."

  • Sly jokes, "Politics have changed so much. Who do we fight? The Finns? You can't do that. The Dutch?
    Wooden shoes are not going to look cool."

  • So how did Sly arrive at 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?'" The answer was
    Burma.

  • The "first draft" script was written by Sly "with Art Monterastelli ("The Hunted")" and "finds Rambo living
    a monastic lifestyle in Bangkok"

  • ... ""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..."

For full details, pick up the magazine! - Craig