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Noah Centineo is to star in the Rambo origins movie.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old actor has boarded the cast of John Rambo, which will serve as a prequel to the popular action franchise that starred Sylvester Stallone as the PTSD-plagued Vietnam War veteran.<\/p>\n
Insiders says that the movie is expected to shoot in early 2026 in Thailand and that Lionsgate is the front-runner to land the package after releasing two previous films in the series.<\/p>\n
John Rambo will be directed by Sisu helmer Jalmari Helander from a screenplay by writing pair Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani.<\/p>\n
The plot of the movie is being kept under wraps but it will be the origin story of a young John Rambo set during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n
The original Rambo film was released in 1982 and Stallone subsequently played the character in four sequels that have generated over $800 million at the worldwide box office.<\/p>\n
Centineo has starred in the Netflix show The Recruit as well as playing the role of Atom Smasher in the 2022 superhero movie Black Adam.<\/p>\n
He also set to appear in the movie adaptation of the classic video game Street Fighter, which also stars Jason Momoa and Andrew Koji and is slated for release in 2026.<\/p>\n
Stallone had previously suggested that he wanted Barbie star Ryan Gosling to succeed him as Rambo after discovering that the actor was a big fan of the franchise growing up.<\/p>\n
The 79-year-old actor told The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last year: “I met him at a dinner and obviously we’re opposites. He’s good-looking – I’m not. That’s how it works.<\/p>\n
“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.’<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
Stallone’s last appearance as the character came in the critically-panned 2019 flick Rambo: Last Blood and he confessed that he annoyed his family with the role as he prepared by becoming “reticent” like his alter ego.<\/p>\n
The Rocky legend told Collider at the time: “I start to brood and become reticent. I’m not very popular around the house, even the dog notices. I stare a lot and really retreat.”<\/p>\n
Sly also spoke about how his tough childhood helped him to perfect the character of Rambo – who was first introduced in David Morrell’s 1972 novel First Blood.<\/p>\n
He said: “Like a lot of people my early life wasn’t perfect. I find that people complain, ‘I’m a failure because my father was mean, my mother was mean.’ Everyone has those problems, so that’s no excuse.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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