{"id":398009,"date":"2026-01-30T03:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398009\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T03:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:22:08","slug":"john-rambo-prequel-from-sisu-director-enters-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398009\/","title":{"rendered":"John Rambo Prequel From Sisu Director Enters Production"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noah Centineo fans are eating well this week, folks. Scarcely 24 hours after we learned the Warfare<\/a> star’s live-action Gundam movie<\/a> is going ahead at Netflix, another buzzy project led by the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before<\/a> breakout has just entered production. Today, Lionsgate took to Instagram<\/a> to reveal that John Rambo<\/a>, Sisu<\/a> director Jalmari Helander’s eyebrow-raising First Blood<\/a> prequel, has officially entered production \u2014 and they’ve even dropped a first poster for the movie. Check it out below;<\/p>\n

Set years before the events of First Blood, presumably during John J. Rambo’s (Centineo) formative time serving in Vietnam, John Rambo \u2014 which is shooting across Bangkok, Krabi, Phang Nga, and Kanchanaburi in Thailand \u2014 is a real passion project for Finnish action filmmaker Helander. In a director’s statement accompanying the new poster, Helander writes: “When I was 11, I saw\u00a0\u2018First Blood\u2019\u00a0for the first time, and it changed my life.\u00a0Rambo\u00a0wasn\u2019t just a film to me \u2014 it stayed with me growing up and was a defining influence on why I wanted to become a filmmaker. As we begin production on the origin of John Rambo, we\u2019re going back to the beginning. This is Rambo stripped down, raw, and real \u2014 a survival story about endurance, persistence, and lost innocence. It\u2019s an honor to shape this next chapter with deep respect for the character and the legacy, and to bring audiences the start of John Rambo\u2019s journey.”<\/p>\n

Joining Helander and Centineo out in Thailand to bring Rambo’s origin story to life is a formidable cast including Sinners<\/a>‘ Yao, Jason Tobin (A Thousand Blows<\/a>), Quincy Isaiah (Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty), Jefferson White (Civil War<\/a>), and Tayme Thapthimthong (The White Lotus<\/a>). And if Helander’s most recent offering, Sisu: Road To Revenge<\/a>, is anything to go by, then we wish these guys luck \u2014 if Sly Stallone’s Rambo bow Last Blood<\/a> was a bit of an anaemic actioner, then we’ve got a feeling John Rambo is about to give us all the blood… and guts… and viscera. Yippee!<\/p>\n