July 31st, 2006
Sylvester Stallone has been talking to Entertainment Weekly about the upcoming Rambo IV. Production on the movie which is untitled at present is expected to commence in October in Thailand.
”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.”
After ruling out the Middle East, 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.
The first draft script that emerged, written by Stallone and 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.
”It might work,” Stallone said, laughing.
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I am a little leary of the situation. The truth will come out when, and if the US economy, and the dollar begins to strengthen. If prices remain high, you’ll know someone is lying. Either OPEC doesn’t have the supply they claim they have, or Analysts are incorrect when they say demand has decreased. Personally, I don’t buy the claim that demand has decreased. Population is ever increasing, so, the the demand should always be increasing. 
August 1st, 2006 at 2:07 pm
Good pick up to focus on Burma. Most people will have never heard of the place, let alone what has happened there.