Rambo's Best Prequel Movie Would Make Someone Else The Hero
The best Rambo prequel movie shouldn't focus on the titular character as the lead. Over the course of five movies, the Rambo series had some dramatic genre shifts. The original movie First Blood was a relatively faithful adaptation of David Morrell's novel, though it toned down the darkness of the story and removed the bleak ending. First Blood is a grounded survival drama where Sylvester Stallone's traumatized Vietnam vet only kills one character — and that's in self-defense. When Stallone returned for both the second and third Rambo movies, the character became an unstoppable one-man army who used everything from a bow and arrow to tanks and assault helicopters.
When Stallone returned for 2008's fourth Rambo outing, the character had been offscreen for 20 years. Instead of being an '80s-style action flick, Rambo was a somber and intensely violent war drama. The final entry was 2019's Rambo: Last Blood, which played like a mixture of Taken and Unforgiven. While Stallone has teased a Rambo 6 concept involving the character taking shelter on a Native American reservation following the events of Last Blood, he seems unlikely to return to the series.
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He's also pitched a Rambo prequel streaming series, focusing on the character before and during his time in Vietnam. This could be somewhat fertile ground for the series, which — outside of brief flashbacks in the original — hasn't really explored Rambo's time as part of Sam Trautman's Baker Team. The first movie also revealed the names of other team members like Danforth — who met a horrific demise via a booby-trapped shoeshine box — and Delmore, with the demise of the latter due to cancer meaning only
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