STALLONE: RAMBO TV PREQUEL?

It looks like they’ve done all they can with Rambo at this point.  Is there anything else the character can do?  Asked by a fan on Instagram about the future of the character, Stallone responded:

Only as a streaming prequel or not at all

This is not the first time that Stallone has stated his preference for a prequel to Rambo, with the actor saying last year that he “always thought of Rambo when he was 16 or 17 – I hope they can do the prequel – he was the best person you could find. He was the captain of the team; he was the most popular kid in school; super athlete. He was like Jim Thorpe, and the war is what changed him. If you saw him before, he was like the perfect guy.”

Casting a juvenile Rambo would be very difficult.  Although to be honest, there is a lot of back story in there.  Becoming a Green Beret isn’t two weeks worth of work.

Stallone once said he’d like to see Ryan Gosling portray Rambo if the series were to be rebooted from the ground up.  Personally, I dislike that idea and thankfully I think Gosling is too old to play a ‘young’ Rambo now.