Sylvester Stallone Reveals His Scrapped AI Rambo Prequel

Sylvester Stallone revealed that an AI Rambo prequel that he was engaged on was in the end scrapped. John Rambo has been considered one of Stallone’s most iconic characters, having first portrayed the character in 1982’s First Blood, then reprising the function in 4 further films, the latest being 2019’s Rambo: Final Blood.

The character of Rambo is ready to return to the massive display screen, however with The Recruit star Noah Centineo taking part in John Rambo. The brand new film, presently titled John Rambo, is ready to be a prequel to First Blood, following Rambo’s time with the Inexperienced Berets in Vietnam.

Nonetheless, Stallone was engaged on a brand new Rambo challenge of his personal. In an interview with ScreenRant’s Liam Crowley for Tulsa King season 3 (premiering September 21), the subject of the Rambo prequel got here up, and Stallone mentioned he had the concept to make use of AI to assist recreate his youthful Rambo earlier than the John Rambo crew took the baton.

“I believed, ‘We may this with AI,’ however [we] procastinated too lengthy and so they took it over and, I hope, , good luck.”

Stallone’s prequel thought would have rewritten Rambo’s historical past. Rambo would have been the nicest man in class, valedictorian, and promenade king. When he goes to Vietnam, he thinks it will be fast, however seeing the loss of life of his buddies, enduring torture, and all the pieces else from his time in Saigon would result in him turning into the character we all know.

What This Means For The Rambo Franchise

Stallone has been actively concerned within the Rambo franchise from its inception. Along with starring within the films, he co-wrote the screenplay for First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Half II, Rambo III, directed and co-wrote Rambo, and co-wrote Rambo: Final Blood. Nonetheless, regardless of his personal newly revealed intentions, Stallone shouldn’t be concerned within the upcoming John Rambo prequel.

It is a altering of the guard for the Rambo franchise, which has been outlined by Stallone for greater than 40 years. Nonetheless, if Hollywood desires to maintain the Rambo franchise going, a brand new actor was finally going to must take over the function.

The excellent news is that Stallone doesn’t appear upset about that. As proven within the above quote, he needs the brand new manufacturing luck. He added that he can be open to talking with Centineo about taking up the function.

Our Take On Stallone’s Scrapped Rambo Prequel

Whereas it’s positively bizarre that Stallone seems to haven’t any involvement in John Rambo, it might be arduous to think about that an AI-supported Rambo prequel would have been embraced with open arms.

So far as AI has come as a device, together with the power to de-age actors, utilizing it for a complete film to create a younger John Rambo looks like it may have been pushing it. To not point out individuals generally simply have a visceral response to the usage of AI in films and different types of artwork.

It might have been fascinating to see the place Stallone wished to take the character, however I believe there’s loads of motive for followers to be excited with Centineo taking up the function, with Sisu‘s Jalmari Helander within the director’s chair.