Earlier this week Nu Image/Millennium Films officially announced that Sylvester Stallone’s next pic (after he completes The Expendables) would be a fifth Rambo movie.

Naturally I didn’t report the news on Sci Fi Scoop because clearly Rambo isn’t a sci-fi franchise.  Well, it hasn’t been until now…yes, that’s right, Rambo V: The Savage Hunt is going sci-fi!

AICN are reporting that Sylvester Stallone has confirmed exclusively to them that Rambo V will be  set in the Pacific Northwest, roughly the same area where the first Rambo film, the awesome First Blood, took place.

The story follows a U.S. Military installation that is doing experiments on elite soldiers as part of a program to create enhanced savage soldiers that have no hesitation in killing. The experiments succeed but obviously go bad, unleashing a group of these enhanced, remorseless super soldiers.  Rambo is then brought in with a Black Ops squad to hunt, capture and kill these “worse than Rambo” savage killers.

I’ve always loved Rambo films and the idea that John Rambo will be hunting super-powerful-elite-remorseless-savage killers, rather than being the one who is hunted, works for me.  It’s kind of like Rambo hunting Universal Soldiers. Cool.

To wet our appetites a little, a quick one sheet has been put together – apparently for the Toronto Film Festival.  Check it out:

Production on Rambo V: The Savage Hunt will commence in the next few months.

Souce: AICN

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