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Entertainment One has completed a co-development deal with Avi Lerner and Nu Image to develop and produce a TV series based on action film “Rambo.”
Sylvester Stallone, who starred in the “Rambo” film franchise in the ’80s, is in negotiations to be involved with the “Rambo” TV skein on a creative level as well as potentially reprising his role as the original John Rambo. Stallone has remarked to the press repeatedly in recent years that he is interested in reviving the franchise and character.
“Rambo” films, based on David Morrell’s novel “First Blood,” center on a troubled Vietnam War vet and former Green Beret who is skilled in aspects of survival, weaponry, hand-to-hand combat and guerrilla warfare. Franchise launched four films over two and a half decades.
Under the eOne and Nu Image deal, the partners will develop the series and shop to networks Stateside and abroad.
Sylvester Stallone, who starred in the “Rambo” film franchise in the ’80s, is in negotiations to be involved with the “Rambo” TV skein on a creative level as well as potentially reprising his role as the original John Rambo. Stallone has remarked to the press repeatedly in recent years that he is interested in reviving the franchise and character.
“Rambo” films, based on David Morrell’s novel “First Blood,” center on a troubled Vietnam War vet and former Green Beret who is skilled in aspects of survival, weaponry, hand-to-hand combat and guerrilla warfare. Franchise launched four films over two and a half decades.
Under the eOne and Nu Image deal, the partners will develop the series and shop to networks Stateside and abroad.
http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/rambo-t ... 200585188/
This is a...strange story. Even if he is no longer an absolute top film star (though Escape Plan and Grudge Match may improve his fortunes in this regard before the year's end), I have a hard time imagining him headlining a television series, at least not one where he is playing Rambo. I could see him in a hard-boiled crime drama at AMC, FX, or HBO, but Rambo: The Series? Where Rambo, I don't know, goes on 50-minute jungle adventures every Thursday night at ten? I cannot wrap my head around it. At the same time, casting another actor as Rambo is not a very enticing proposition. Even if they found an actor with bad-ass credibility (such as, say, Ray Stevenson), the role and Stallone are so, so intertwined. Rambo is popular because of how Stallone perfectly plays him, not because he is such a fascinating and rich character in and of himself. He is not Batman or James Bond.
