‘Rambo V’ Gets a New Title, Synopsis, and Promo Poster

Sometimes, I wake up and thank God I am me.   I relish in what I have been given and what I have achieved in life, and I cannot imagine it any other way.   Then, there’s days like today, where I read about Harry Knowles getting a voicemail from Sylvester Stallone, a voicemail, mind you, about ‘Rambo V.’   Lucky bastard!   Evidently, Stallone is hard at work on the new adventure for John Rambo, and it’s something you might not be expecting.

Just check out this synopsis for ‘Rambo V: The Savage Hunt’:

JOHN RAMBO could track anyone – or anything – on earth.   Now the MILITARY desperately needs him for a mission that his ultrasensitive instincts tell him he should refuse. A BEAST is loose somewhere north of the ARCTIC CIRCLE.   It has already decimated a secret research facility and annihilated a SQUAD of elite MILITARY GUARDS.   And the raging CREATURE is headed south toward civilization, ready to wreak bloody devastation.

It’s a job that RAMBO and his 22 year old hunting partner, BEAU BRADY, can’t turn down, but they and a TEAM of highly skilled SPECIAL FORCES KILL TEAM discover that the prey is a terror beyond their wildest imagination, a half-human abomination created by a renegade agency through a series of outlawed genetic experiments.   It has man’s cunning, a predator’s savageness, and a prehistoric power that has transcended the ages.   And even if RAMBO and BEAU survive its unrelenting hunger for human blood, they’ll still have to confront the grim reality that it may have grown immortal.

So, it appears John Rambo is going to be taking on something straight out of the SyFy network’s Saturday night lineup.   Sure, on paper, this sounds incredibly stupid with a capital STU, but, seriously think about it.   Taking the ‘Rambo’ franchise in a completely new direction, injecting it with some sci-fi elements, kind of freshens the whole deal, doesn’t it?   We know if you put Rambo against a squad of drug dealers or foreign military personnel, he’s just going to wipe them out in gory fashion.   But put him up against something that we’ve never seen before, and it’s a whole new ballgame.   This could very well be the closest we get to seeing a Rambo Vs. Predator movie, and I, for one, couldn’t be more stoked about it.   Personally, I, like Harry, cannot wait to see what it looks like to actually see fear in John Rambo’s eyes.

Also, according to our bros over at Coming Soon, Stallone has owned the rights to a novel titled “Hunter” for nearly a decade.   The novel, written by James Byron Huggins, has this for its official synopsis:

Nathaniel Hunter could track anyone — or anything — on earth. Now the military desperately needs him for a mission that his ultrasensitive instincts tell him he should refuse. A beast is loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle. It has already decimated a secret research facility and annihilated a squad of elite military guards. And the raging creature is headed south toward civilization, ready to wreak bloody devastation.

It’s a job that Hunter can’t turn down, but he soon discovers that his prey is terror incarnate, a half-human abomination created by a renegade agency through a series of outlawed genetic experiments. It has man’s cunning, a predator’s savageness, and a prehistoric power that has transcended the ages. And even if Hunter survives its unrelenting hunger for human blood, he’ll still have to confront the grim reality that it may have grown immortal.

Sound familiar?   It looks as if Stallone is adapting Huggins’ novel into the new ‘Rambo’ film.

AICN also revealed a promo poster that has been worked up for ‘Rambo V: The Savage Hunt.’

We’ll keep you posted as more news comes in about the new ‘Rambo’ film.