Rambo IV: Pearl of The Cobra

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Rambo IV: Pearl of The Cobra
Directed by Sylvester Stallone
Produced by Sylvester Stallone
Written by Sylvester Stallone
Starring Sylvester Stallone
Distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment
Running time TBA
Language English
Budget US$50,000,000
Preceded by Rambo III

Rambo IV: Pearl of The Cobra is an upcoming film, starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. It is scheduled for a late 2007/early 2008 release.


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[edit] Plot outline

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Few details are known, however a number of plot rumors have been circulating:

  • Rambo leading a team of high-tech soldiers on a mission. The technology fails and Rambo teaches them the true art of guerrilla warfare.
  • Rambo, again working at a monastery in Thailand, is in the salvage business. Missionaries go missing and another one convinces Rambo to find them.
  • Rambo is living a monastic lifestyle in Bangkok and salvaging old PT boats and tanks for scrap metal. 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 determined to rescue those that have been taken.[1]

[edit] Origins & various plot ideas

  • In an interview for the movie Rocky Balboa, Stallone revealed the Christian themes to both Rocky Balboa and Rambo IV:

Interviewer commentary: "I can only imagine Rambo sneaking into Burma to free Christian missionaries who are being held by militants. And as the invincible one-man army looks into the eyes of the ordinary folks from Oklahoma and South Carolina who are risking their lives for the Gospel, he is swept up by their commitment. Oh, wait. I'm. Not. Kidding.

Stallone: "It rekindles something in him. He doesn't believe at first, he's seen too much. He's bitter. But when he meets these people and looks into their eyes, he's swept up in it, and literally he's just taken on this journey," Stallone said. "He's a Christian warrior! Can you believe it?"

  • In 2002, Stallone came up with the idea of making the fourth Rambo movie, with Rambo going back to Afghanistan to hunt down Osama Bin Laden. This idea was later scrapped for a less socially unnerving plot.
  • Yet another terrorist plot was considered. Referred to as Rambo IV: Holy War, this version has Rambo as an environmentalist working in New York for the United Nations. The UN Assembly is hijacked by terrorists, one of which is Tomask (the boy from Rambo III). It is also revealed in this version that Rambo has become a Sufi Muslim.
  • Jackie Chan had been approached a few years ago about playing the villain in Rambo IV, but turned it down since he feels that a lot of kids look up to him and he wants to be a good role model. Additionally the character was a drug dealer and Chan supposedly has a personal reason for not wanting to play any character associated with drugs.
  • In 1997 when Miramax owned the rights to the franchise, they wanted to make Rambo IV. The story was that John Rambo is recruited by the government to infiltrate a right wing militia group. Brian Dennehy was to reprise his role as the sheriff from First Blood. There were about three variations of the militia story.
  • Some variations of the film include the idea that Rambo's 'hands-on' approach to warfare is superior than a high-tech style employed by a younger group of soldiers.
  • One idea for the movie seemed to be inspired by the films Commando and The Fugitive: Rambo living peacefully with his wife & daughter until his daughter is kidnapped. Rambo then returns to his old ways and seeks justice. Also, according to some reports on IMDB.com, there may also be a fugitive wrongfully accused of war crimes on the loose from the United States. Rambo and the fugitive meet and then begin to work together to clear the fugitive's name and also free Rambo's daughter. For quite some time, this was thought to be the plot for the film until Entertainment Weekly reported differently in July 2006[2]. This version is still being reported at the Rambo IV page on IMDB.com[3]

[edit] Name Change

Sylvester Stallone revealed in an online interview that Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye has been retitled Rambo IV: Pearl of The Cobra[4], while he also stated that the rumors are false and the movie will simply be titled In the Serpent's Eye, without "Rambo" or "Rambo IV" in the title at all. [5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.slycenter.mfbiz.com/ramboiv
  2. ^ http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1219912_1_0_,00.html
  3. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462499/
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ [2]

[edit] External links

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