Source: Stallone Zone

Remember back in September how it was reported that the next Rambo flick would be about John Rambo hunting down a genetically engineered instinctual killer? Well, looks like Sly has changed his mind about that. Read on for details!

Sly Stallone himself had this to say to Stallone Zone:

This is from Sly to your followers:

To all the loyal SZoners out there,
I’m letting you know that Rambo has changed course and the story about hunting the man/beast will be done using another character in the lead. RAMBO himself will be heading over the border to a violent city where many young women have vanished.

There will be blood.

Best,
Sly Stallone

Sly’s plot description actually sounds very close to what Variety originally reported the plot would be.

My guess is that this was Sly’s first idea before he changed his mind and went sci-fi. A while back, Stallone obtained the rights to the science fiction novel Hunter and originally planned on taking the basic plot of the book and making a Rambo film out of it, which is what that whole genetically engineered mutant thing was all about. Now, it looks like he will still use that story for a different film with a different character in the lead, and Rambo 5 will stick to reality (as real as a Rambo film can be, anyway).

Whew.

Actually, I was starting to warm up to the idea of sci-fi Rambo, but I think Sly is making a wise decision in keeping John Rambo a little more in line with the previous four films.