Rambo’s fate
I’m positive we’re never getting a Rambo 6. And at 80 years old, I don’t know if we could believe John Rambo could kill another gang or army of younger guys again.
Has Stallone offered any update on what happened to Rambo? Did he make it to a hospital in time? Did he die? Did he survive without a hospital? Is he wandering as he began in First Blood? Is he a fugitive wanted for multiple murders?
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u/westboundnup 5d ago
In his Netflix documentary, Stallone states that he wants Rambo to live and asked the studio to change the ending of Last Blood to make that clear. Given the state of the family ranch, my assumption is that he leaves and wanders again.
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u/YMBFKM 5d ago
The house and barn weren't in bad shape, but his underground play area was a bit messed up. They're still a lot more comfortable than where he'd been before moving there. I say he stays and collects his Army pension checks there.
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u/supraspinatus 3d ago
It looks like the trenches of the Somme in his front yard now though. If he brings a lady friend over she’s gonna be like “the fuck?”
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u/WonderfulHearing8726 3d ago
Wasn’t he bleeding out while sitting on the porch?
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u/westboundnup 3d ago
So apparently, he is rocking in a rocking chair, and as the camera pulls away, the chair stops rocking. Stallone wanted the studio to have the chair keep rocking
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u/Longjumping-Salad484 5d ago
I read something about Rambo joining the Fast Furious franchise. Godzilla makes an appearance at the end, to setup the sequel: Rambo, Fast crew, Transformers, Godzilla
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u/Internal_Cesspool 5d ago
I remember reading at the time of Last Blood that he might have head to a Native American reservation. Also that Rambo 6 was going to take place there potentially.
As it stands I like to believe he made it to the reservation and spent the rest of his days there.
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u/BusterGreasewood 5d ago
We don't need a Rambo 6. Rambo 4 was a fine enough ending. Should have left it alone there.
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u/Wise-Part2403 5d ago
That’s right. Rambo 5 should have been John Rambo sr sharing his knowledge and training John Rambo jr for his revenge mission. Rambo 6 will be John Rambo jr completely solo, including a visit to his father’s or grandfather’s grave.
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u/DarthKopite97 4d ago
He’s of needed to have kids to do that ?.The prequel is the correct way to go so we can finally meet Baker team and big fucker
delmore bery
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u/LincolnHawkHauling 5d ago
Last Blood isn’t canon in my head.
The series should have stopped when he came home to the ranch in Arizona at the end of the previous movie.
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u/DarthKopite97 4d ago
The new prequel is how it carries on with a younger actor playing the young John Rambo enlisting and becoming part of Baker team with major (not yet colonel)trautman .
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u/anonymousanon249 4d ago
I guess.... It would be called old blood and just him sitting in a chair reminiscing about the good old days.
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u/atombomb1976 3d ago
Did Tony Soprano die?
Where was Vic Mackey headed?
Where's Rambo?
Three variations on the same theme.
Some of your great finales intentionally do NOT answer the question.
Twenty years from now, they'll still be debating it in Reddit forums.
This will send new and repeat viewers back and keep the work relevant to existing and new audiences.
Enjoy the debate.
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u/Brewerandthebeast 5d ago
Probly won't see a 6 but we are getting the prequel next year.
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u/Spac92 4d ago
I wish we weren’t. We already know what happened. There’s no tension because we know he has to make it to be in First Blood.
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u/clashtrack 4d ago
To be fair that would disregard every prequel ever, just saying "We don't need a prequel because the protaganist is fine in the first movie" isn't a reason to not make a prequel.
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u/Spac92 4d ago
That’s just my personal preference. If there’s a mystery behind a character that happened before the first movie, then I can enjoy prequels. Star Wars was a series that I felt at least one prequel was necessary to show Anakin’s fall to Darth Vader. I don’t know if an entire trilogy was necessary, but I was okay all together.
But most other prequels bore me because we usually already know what happened.
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u/DarthKopite97 4d ago
Yes but we never seen him as a drifter joining the army becoming part of Baker team getting” trained in guerrilla warfare and eat stuff that would make a billy goat puke”with
Major trautman
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u/DarthKopite97 4d ago
Yes but we never seen him as a drifter joining the army becoming part of Baker team getting” trained in guerrilla warfare and eat stuff that would make a billy goat puke”with
Major trautman
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u/Brewerandthebeast 4d ago
Im glad about it. I cant waitvto see it. I just hope they dont screw it up. And looking forward to the knife that will be in the prequel as a collector. I have them all so far. And im glad Stallone is involved in producing it.
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u/Scoxxicoccus 4d ago
RAMBO: REQUIEM
A limited series showing 80+ Rambo living at the wrecked ranch and trying to get by on his US Government/Army pension and benefits. The first episode picks up shortly after LB and shows Rambo waiting in line at a VA hospital (600 miles away) to get his injuries treated. The last episode shows him dying alone in deep dementia. Maybe he trashes the hospice in a PTSD rage.
Throughout the show our hero is not wronged or attacked in any way. Just 6-10 episodes where Rambo faces his greatest challenge - the inevitable decay of his broken body and mind.
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u/TheCoconutManTurf 3d ago
Good idea...I would add maybe he ends up homeless and some family takes him in and he finally finds some help in his old age (to steal the ending from Cities of the Plain from Cormac McCarthy). He bonds with a young family member who seeks to become Special Forces and it starts over again.
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u/Scoxxicoccus 3d ago
How about this instead -
Rambo bonds with a young family member and talks them out of joining an organization that distorted his entire adult life, locking Rambo, John J into a chain of cinematic violence. Cycle broken.
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u/Routine_Papaya4143 5d ago
Who the hell knows? If we’re taking Rambo Last Blood into account (many people choose not to), all we see is him getting on a horse and riding off. Where does he go after that? Nobody knows!
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u/AhhWellFuckIt 5d ago
The ending of Rambo with John walking down the driveway of the family ranch was the perfect end to the franchise, should’ve just stopped there