They’re making a ‘Rambo’ origin movie The new film will likely take audiences back to Vietnam and show the moments that made Rambo the traumatized Green Beret he became in "First Blood." ...

Rambo, on the other hand, has been a niche attraction since ’88. The two Old Man Rambo movies had some opportunity to take the character back to quieter, more contemplative territory.

John Rambo is officially in the worksThe Rambo franchise spawned from the 1972 novel First Blood by David Morrell, with First Blood, directed by the late Ted Kotcheff, hitting theaters in 1982 ...

He added that this movie would deal with the fallout of what Rambo does for a living. "In every film, Rambo never goes home, he goes out the to the jungle or Afghanistan.