Stallone talks Rambo IV

Production on “Rambo IV” is finally expected to commence this October 1st in Thailand.

Stallone has been talking with Entertainment Weekly and says that the majority of the delays in the last few years which effectively stalled the movie revolved around the lack of a credible enemy for Rambo to go up against.

After ruling out the Middle East, Africa, and even Korea, Stallone finally found what he was seeking. “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?” says Stallone. They came back with Burma (aka. Myanmar), the largest country geographically in mainland Southeast Asia.

The script which Stallone cowrote with Art Monterastelli ("The Hunted") finds Rambo living a secluded lifestyle in Bangkok and salvaging old boats and tanks for scrap. When a group of volunteer aid workers bringing supplies into Burma disappear, a relative of one of the missing missionaries begs Rambo to find them. He heads off with a small team of aspiring heroes to locate and rescue them.

Stallone of course has been hard in training of late for his reprisal of one of his other most famous roles, ‘Rocky Balboa.’ Despite his age he is certainly fit, clearly the focus with “Rambo IV” will be to make it appear credible to audiences that an ageing commando can still push the right buttons, especially as modern audiences tend to expect more than just big guns and even bigger explosions, the staple diet of the late 1980’s. Its seems that with both Rocky and Rambo due in Cinemas soon, that the script and story of both vehicles will have as big, if not a bigger role to play than just the guns and fists if they are to appeal to a wide audience.