Rambo is an upcoming film, starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. In this fourth chapter of the franchise, Rambo travels to Burma, where the Burmese army is ruthlessly abusing the locals. It is currently scheduled for a January 25, 2008 release.

An official film teaser trailer which was made for distributors at the Cannes film festival was made available on the internet in late May 2007, and was noted for its intense (and graphic) violence. Another teaser trailer was made available on the internet in September 2007. The MPAA has John Rambo rated R for strong graphic bloody violence, sexual assaults, grisly images and language.

Plot

Twenty years after the last film in the series, Vietnam veteran John J. Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) has retreated to northern Thailand, where he's running a longboat on the Salween River. On the nearby Thai-Burma (Myanmar) border, the world's longest-running civil war, the Burmese-Karen conflict, rages into its 60th year. But Rambo, who lives a solitary, simple life in the mountains and jungles fishing and catching poisonous snakes to sell, has long given up fighting, even as medics, mercenaries, rebels and peace workers pass by on their way to the war-torn region.

That all changes when a group of human rights missionaries search out the "American river guide" John Rambo. When Sarah (Julie Benz) and Michael Bennett (Paul Schulze) approach him, they explain that since last year's trek to the refugee camps, the Burmese military has laid landmines along the road, making it too dangerous for overland travel. They ask Rambo to guide them up the Salween and drop them off, so they can deliver medical supplies and food to the Karen tribe. After initially refusing to cross into Burma, Rambo takes them, dropping off Sarah, Michael and the aid workers...

Less than two weeks later, pastor Arthur Marsh (Ken Howard) finds Rambo and tells him the aid workers did not return and the embassies have not helped locate them. He tells Rambo he's mortgaged his home and raised money from his congregation to hire mercenaries to get the missionaries, who are being held captive by the Burmese army. Although the United States military trained him to be a lethal super soldier in Vietnam, decades later Rambo's reluctance for violence and conflict are palpable, his scars faded, yet visible. However, the lone warrior knows what he must do...

Cast

* Sylvester Stallone - John Rambo
* Julie Benz - Sarah Miller
* Matthew Marsden - Schoolboy - Mercenary
* Graham McTavish - Lewis - Mercenary
* Reynaldo Gallegos - Diaz - Mercenary
* Jake La Botz - Reese - Mercenary
* Tim Kang - En-Joo - Mercenary
* Maung Maung Khin - Major Pa Tee Tint
* Paul Schulze - Michael Burnett
* Ken Howard - Reverend Arthur Marsh

So far the latest installment of the Rambo franchise has undergone many name changes, and has been known as the following

* Rambo IV
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* Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye
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* John Rambo - mirroring the final installment of the Rocky Franchise, Rocky Balboa, Stallone decided upon using the full name of the action hero
* Rambo: To Hell and Back On October 12, Lionsgate announced that the film was being changed to Rambo: To Hell and Back. After some negative feedback from the online community, Stallone spoke with AICN's Harry Knowles [4] and is quoted to have said "Lionsgate jumped the gun on this. I just was thinking that the title JOHN RAMBO was derivative of ROCKY BALBOA and might give people the idea that this is the last Rambo film, and I don't necessarily feel that it will be. He's not an athlete, there's no reason he can't continue onto another adventure. Like John Wayne with THE SEARCHERS."

* Rambo - On October 17th, a promo poster was released which shows the new title to be simply RAMBO