they don’t involve Planet Hollywood (that I know of). Yes, I’m talking about the fourth installment of the Rambo franchise — Pearl of the Cobra… or In the Serpent’s Eye… or Eye of the Tiger, or whatever the hell they’re calling it today. In the press rounds for Rocky Balboa recently, he took the time to talk about his vision for the film, which he’s informally slated to direct. To wit:
“Rambo’s a very interesting character, especially set today,” says Stallone.
“We haven’t seen anything like Rambo, and I’m always interested in characters of
that curious stature — you wonder, why did Rambo become so big? And so to me it’s
worth revisiting, especially the way that the world is today. He’s a character totally
out of sync with everything. He’s a warrior, he’s an errant knight with nowhere
to go. …(In the story), he lives in the jungles of
and is in complete denial of [who] he really is. A situation comes along where these
Christians have to go into some very dangerous areas, and he becomes their guide.
And then he reverts to his true nature and he doesn’t like it, but it’s who he is.”
“I’m going to try to work in there all these different
levels about human nature and mankind, the fight within yourself while you’re
trying to fight on the outside,” Stallone continues. “I always love that duality. There’s always two
stories being played out in a good characterization — the one that’s being
played out on the outside and then the dialogue that the character is having within himself. And if
you have three stories going, you really have it going on.”
