"Rambo IV" starts production Oct.1 for 2007 release

[underpants]

No meniton of Richard Crenna -ON EDIT OOPS he is dead. Sorry


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambo#Rambo_IV

Rambo IV is to be released spring/summer of 2007

The major development for Rambo IV occurred in May 2005 when British-based independent media production company, Alpha1Media, published their popular and controversial treatment for the film, titled 'Rambo IV: Holy War.' <1> The company also exclusively broke the news that the film rights for Rambo had been sold by Miramax to Millennium Films.

On July 28, 2006, Entertainment Weekly confirmed on their website of Stallone's plans for the fourth Rambo film. They explain the basic plot and production plans<2>:

First announced in 2005, production on Rambo IV (final title to be determined) is finally expected to commence Oct. 1 in Thailand. But while America braces for Balboa's arrival on Dec. 22, Rambo has yet to land a domestic distributor. Why have studios had a tough time picturing the old guy back in battle? Maybe because the writer-director — that would be Mr. Stallone — couldn't figure out which war he'd be waging.
"You know, it's hard," says the 60-year-old star. "Politics have changed so much. Who do we fight? The Finns? You can't do that. The Dutch? That's not gonna work. Wooden shoes are not gonna look cool." Stallone may be joking, but finding Rambo a fresh foe was actually a serious problem for the Nu Image/ Millennium Films production. After ruling out the Mideast, Africa, and Korea, the actor finally hit on a solution. "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?'" The answer was Burma.
So, the script that emerged — a "first draft" Stallone has written with Art Monterastelli (The Hunted) — finds Rambo living a monastic lifestyle in Bangkok and salvaging old PT boats and tanks for scrap metal. ("It's like he's stripping himself down," says the actor, pensively. "That old piece of military equipment.") 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, a plot point required by the financiers, who wanted to hedge against Rambo's possible mono-generational appeal.
Stallone will direct. The budget is around $60 million.


Warner Bros. had considered to make the story with Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Al Pacino, and Dustin Hoffman.

John Travolta was considered for the part of Rambo.

This film has a reputation of being overly violent. However, the total body count of the movie is four; One confirmed kill (the cop who falls out of the helicopter) and three possible accidental deaths (the officers in the cop car who crash into a parked car, although their vehicle doesn't explode like the parked one).

Kirk Douglas was originally cast to play Colonel Samuel Trautman. Because of script issues (Kirk wanted Rambo to die at the end, as in the novel), he dropped out of the film and Richard Crenna was cast at the last second.

For the scene where Rambo jumps from the cliff and falls through the trees, Sylvester Stallone opted to do the last part of the stunt himself, much to the concern of director Ted Kotcheff. His concerns were apparently well founded, as the stunt didn't go as planned and Stallone broke three ribs. This apparently took place on camera and the shot is in the movie.



Sylvester Stallone hated the first cut of the film so much that he tried to buy the film back and destroy it. When he couldn't do that, he suggested that the producers cut much of his part and let the rest of the characters tell the story. That cut the movie time in half and set a precedent for future action movies.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083944/trivia

[Nailzberg]

1. This and another Rocky film. Sly, say it ain't so.

I don't know how much is left in those wells.