Abandoned Rambo Vs. Monster Movie Getting Made As Non-‘Rambo’ Movie, Sylvester Stallone Still Starring
By Ben Pearson/Oct. 18, 2018 12:30 pm EST
But Stallone liked that Rambo vs monsters idea so much that almost 10 years later, he’s making that one too – except he won’t be playing John Rambo in it.
“It’s a feral monster,” Stallone said in 2009 when asked about Rambo’s planned villain. “It’s a…thing. It’s this amalgamation of fury and intelligence and pure, unadulterated rage. It’s before men became… hu-men. This is when they were still inhuman. And so, what [Rambo] confronts is something that is everyone’s nightmare. He’s going against a feral beast that has absolute cunning and intelligence and a will to survive that is only matched by Rambo’s.”
It’s a job that Hunter can’t turn down, but what he discovers here in the wilderness is that terror has a form, that a renegade agency has let a half-human abomination escape into the wild. This almost invulnerable creature was created through a series of outlawed genetic experiments that have left it with a hunger for human blood. And may have made it immortal.
Hunter is the ultimate tracker, the world’s best. If you’re lost, Hunter can find you – whether you want him to or not. Still, Hunter is particular about the searches he takes on. So when the military men seeking his help are very secretive about the mission they’re recruiting him for, Hunter’s instincts tell him to refuse. But there is a beast loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle and it’s already charged through a secret research facility, wiping out the elite military squad that had been guarding it. And this raging superhuman monster is headed south for civilization, ready to wreak bloody devastation.
I can’t help but be disappointed that Stallone couldn’t find a way to get this made as Rambo V, because the notion of that franchise suddenly taking a hard turn into sci-fi territory could have provided it with fresh energy and excitement after so many years off-screen. It’s so much less interesting without the Rambo component, but it’s obviously a story Stallone is fascinated with, so maybe the passion that led him to stick with this for 10 years will come through in the final product.
