Noah Centineo Will Reportedly Play John Rambo Though Stallone Once Preferred Another Actor originally appeared on Parade.
Noah Centineo has reportedly been cast as the iconic John Rambo made famous by Sylvester Stallone though it doesn’t sound like the Rocky star had him in mind for the part
Centineo, who rose to fame in his role as Peter Kavinsky in the wildly popular series To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, will allegedly be stepping into the combat boots of the fictional Vietnam war veteran, per a report from Deadline published on Monday, August 11. However, when Stallone discussed passing the torch during a 2024 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon he name-dropped other actors for a Rambo prequel and Centineo wasn’t on the list.
“I met [Ryan Gosling] at a dinner and obviously we’re opposites. He’s good-looking – I’m not. That’s how it works,” the Tulsa King actor said during the February 9, 2024, episode. “But he goes, ‘I was fascinated by Rambo, and I used to go to school dressed as Rambo and people would chase me away and I still didn’t stop.’ He just kept saying that he had a lot of affiliation with Rambo, and I thought, this is interesting. If I ever pass the baton, I’ll pass it on to him because he loves the character.”
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Rambo first became popular in the ‘80s with First Blood premiering in 1982, and since then, there have been four separate sequels. While the first film was more of a psychological thriller with him being harassed by a small-town sheriff, the second film, Rambo: First Blood Part II, dove right into being an action flick. The most recent move in the series debuted in 2019 and featured Rambo going up against the Mexican cartel. However, it was mostly panned by critics with even First Blood’s original writer, David Morrell, calling it “a mess.”
Centineo will be starring as a young John Rambo in the prequel and even though plot details are still under wraps, it’s reported to be the origin story of the famously gruff anti-hero.
Noah Centineo Will Reportedly Play John Rambo Though Stallone Once Preferred Another Actor first appeared on Parade on Aug 12, 2025
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