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The film series has grossed $819 million in total, $300 million of which is from the most successful film, ''Rambo: First Blood Part II''. Stallone co-wrote the screenplays of all five films, and directed ''Rambo''. The franchise also spawned an animated television series, ''[[Rambo: The Force of Freedom]]'', and comic books, novels, and video games.
[[Sylvester Stallone]] is the only actor to have appeared in all five films.
==Films==
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! scope="row" | ''[[First Blood]]''
| style="text-align:left" | {{Start date|1982|10|22}}
| [[Ted Kotcheff]]
| colspan="2" | [[Michael Kozoll]], William Sackheim & [[Sylvester Stallone]]
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Upon returning to the United States, Vietnam veteran John Rambo has difficulty adjusting to civilian life and wanders the country as a drifter for almost a decade. In December 1981, Rambo travels to a small town in rural Washington (filmed in [[Hope, British Columbia]], Canada), in search of a fellow U.S. Army [[Special Forces (United States Army)|Green Beret]] buddy. He learns that his friend died from cancer the previous summer due to exposure to [[Agent Orange]].
He attempts to find a diner in town, and maybe a temporary job. The overconfident town sheriff Will Teasle ([[Brian Dennehy]]) does not welcome Rambo, judging the military hero negatively because of his long hair and scruffy look. Rambo disobeys the sheriff's order to stay away from town, as he has done nothing wrong and believes such banishment to be a violation of his freedom of movement, and most of all he is hungry. Rambo returns to town soon afterwards and is promptly charged with vagrancy and subject to harassment and brutality from the deputies.
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Colonel Samuel Trautman ([[Richard Crenna]]), Rambo's former commanding officer, arrives. He suggests giving Rambo a chance to escape; if Rambo is allowed to slip away, he'll be given time to calm down and he can be arrested without incident. Teasle allows Trautman to contact Rambo through a stolen police radio, but Rambo refuses to surrender, stating that "They (the deputies) drew first blood, not me" and then hanging up.
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The film opens with Colonel Samuel Trautman (Richard Crenna) returning to Thailand to once again enlist Rambo's help. After witnessing Rambo's victory in a stick-fighting match, Trautman visits the temple Rambo is helping to build and asks him to join him on a mission to Afghanistan. This brings Rambo into the realm of the [[CIA]]'s [[Special Activities Division]] which primarily hires Army Special Forces soldiers. The mission is meant to supply weapons, including [[FIM-92 Stinger]] missiles, to Afghan freedom fighters, the [[Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen|Mujahideen]], who are fighting the Soviets. Despite having been shown photos of civilians suffering under Soviet rule, Rambo refuses and Trautman chooses to go on his own.
While in Afghanistan, Trautman's troops are ambushed by Soviet troops while passing through the mountains at night. Trautman is imprisoned in a Soviet base and tortured for information by commanding officer Zaysen ([[Marc de Jonge]]) and his henchman Kourov (Randy Raney). Rambo learns of the incident from embassy field officer Robert Griggs ([[Kurtwood Smith]]) and immediately flies to Pakistan where he meets up with Mousa ([[Sasson Gabai]]), a weapons supplier who agrees to take him to a village deep in the Afghan desert, close to the Soviet base where Trautman is kept. The Mujahideen in the village are already hesitant to help Rambo in the first place, but are convinced not to help him when their village is attacked by Soviet helicopters after one of Mousa's shop assistants informed the Russians of Rambo's presence. Aided only by Mousa and a young boy named Hamid (Doudi Shoua), Rambo makes his way to the Soviet base and starts his attempts to free Trautman. The first attempt is unsuccessful and results in Hamid getting shot in the leg, and Rambo himself getting hit by wooden shrapnel. After escaping from the base, Rambo tends to Hamid's wounds and sends him and Mousa away to safety.
The next day, Rambo returns to the base once again, just in time to rescue Trautman from being tortured with a flamethrower. After rescuing several other prisoners, Rambo steals a helicopter and escapes from the base. The helicopter crashes and Rambo and Trautman are forced to continue on foot. After a confrontation in a cave, where Rambo and Trautman kill several Russian soldiers including Kourov, they are confronted by an entire army of Russian tanks, headed by Zaysen. Just as they are about to be overwhelmed by the might of the Soviet Army, the Mujahideen warriors, together with Mousa and Hamid, ride onto the battlefield in a cavalry charge, overwhelming the Russians despite their numerical and technological superiority. In the ensuing battle, in which both Trautman and Rambo are wounded, Rambo manages to kill Zaysen by driving a tank into the helicopter in which Zaysen is flying.
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===Future===
In June 2019 at Cannes, Stallone stated he would continue portraying John Rambo if the fifth film succeeds.<ref name="Cannes_JB">{{cite web|url=https://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/stallone-would-return-as-rambo-if-last-blood-is-a-hit|title= Stallone happy to return as Rambo if Last Blood is a hit|first=Mike|last=Sprague|date=June 12, 2019|publisher=[[JoBlo.com]]|access-date=June 13, 2019}}</ref> Grunberg, however, said that ''Rambo: Last Blood'' "closes the circle" and concludes the film series.<ref name="Total Film">{{cite web|url=https://www.gamesradar.com/rambo-5-last-blood-director-adrian-grunberg-interview/|title= Exclusive: Rambo: Last Blood director discusses bringing back Sylvester Stallone's action hero: "This movie closes the circle"|author=Jack Shepherd, James Mottram|work=[[GamesRadar]]|date=July 22, 2019|access-date=July 25, 2019}}</ref> In September 2019, Stallone expressed interest in a sixth ''Rambo'' film, where the character takes refuge at a [[Native American reservation]].<ref name="Rambo_JB.TV">{{cite web|title=Sylvester Stallone interview for Rambo: Last Blood!|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2th50Z9nKcI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/2th50Z9nKcI |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|work=[[JoBlo.com]]| date=17 September 2019 |publisher=JoBlo.com official YouTube channel|access-date=18 September 2019|time=3:52}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Stallone later elaborated that the story would explore Rambo's return to the reservation where he had grown up.<ref name="Rambo_NTV">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otyZ9qS3-cY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/otyZ9qS3-cY |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=ランボー ラスト・ブラット シルベスター・スタローン主演 インタビュー最後の勇者編 Rambo: Last Blood Sylvester Stallone interview movie|date=2020-06-23|work=[[Nippon TV]] Sukkiri|publisher=Shigz Channel, YouTube|access-date=June 25, 2020|time=8:30}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
==Television==
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===Novelizations===
''[[First Blood (novel)|First Blood]]'', ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'' and ''Rambo III''; [[David Morrell]], author of the original ''First Blood'' novel, wrote novelizations (book adaptations) for the first two ''Rambo'' sequels. Morrell has said that he wrote the novelizations because he wanted to include characterization that is not in ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'' and ''Rambo III''. Morrell did not write a novelization for the 2008 film, ''Rambo'', as he said the film's characterization matched that of the original ''First Blood'' novel.<ref> {{
===Comic books===
* ''Rambo Adventures'': in 1986 an Italian series of comic books inspired by Rambo was published, by Giorgio Pedrazzi.
* ''Rambo III'': in the late 1980s, [[Blackthorne Publishing]] published a few comics starring the character. Adapted the film of the same name and was also published in a 3D version by Blackthorne.
* ''Rambo'': also, there was a comic featuring other adventures of the character.
* ''First Kill'': in November 2022 an Indiegogo campaign launched for a new graphic novel depicting Rambo's first tour of duty in Vietnam written by Sylvester Stallone and [[Chuck Dixon]].
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In early 2016, [[Siddharth Anand]] was announced as the director<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.storypick.com/rambo-remake-india/|title=Director Siddharth Anand To Remake Hollywood Movie 'Rambo' After Remaking 'Knight And Day'|last=Dhar|first=Debanjan|work=Story Pick|date=February 1, 2016|access-date=May 20, 2017}}</ref> and the film will be co-produced by Anand, Daljit DJ Parmar, Samir Gupta, Hunt Lowry, Saurabh Gupta and Gulzar Inder Chahal.<ref name="cast"/> The film will specifically remake ''First Blood'' and will follow the last member of an elite unit in the Indian Armed forces returning home only to discover a different war waiting for him, forcing Rambo to the jungles and mountains of the Himalayas and unleash mayhem and destruction.<ref name="cast"/>
In May 2017, [[Tiger Shroff]] was cast in the role of Rambo while production was scheduled for a late 2018 release date.<ref name="cast">{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-indian-rambo-remake-finds-answer-stallone-1005089|title=Cannes: Indian 'Rambo' Remake Finds Its Answer to Stallone (Exclusive)|last=Brzeski|first=Patrick|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=May 18, 2017|access-date=May 20, 2017}}</ref> By October 2017, the film was placed on hold while Shroff and Anand completed other projects.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://movieweb.com/rambo-remake-bollywood-why-it-was-shelved/|title=Bollywood's Rambo Remake Gets Indefinitely Delayed, What Happened?|first=Kevin|last=Burwick|work=MovieWeb|date=October 12, 2017|access-date=February 14, 2019|archive-date=February 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214105814/https://movieweb.com/rambo-remake-bollywood-why-it-was-shelved/}}</ref>
The film was scheduled to be released in October 2020, with Shroff expected to star in Hindi remakes of all five films in the ''Rambo'' franchise.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dixit |first1=Ayush Mohan |title=Sylvester Stallone's Rambo remake starring Tiger Shroff to release on Gandhi Jayanti 2020 {{!}} Bollywood News |url=https://www.timesnownews.com/entertainment/news/bollywood-news/article/sylvester-stallone-s-rambo-remake-starring-tiger-shroff-to-release-on-gandhi-jayanti/420401 |access-date=31 May 2019 |work=[[Times Now]] |date=17 May 2019}}</ref> Release has been pushed back to 2025 and [[Rohit Dhawan]] is slated to direct the film.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tiger Shroff teams up with Janhvi Kapoor for Rambo remake |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/tiger-shroff-teams-up-with-janhvi-kapoor-for-rambo-remake/articleshow/103628123.cms |work=The Times of India |date=13 September 2023}}</ref>
===Other appearances===
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* ''[[Mortal Kombat 11]]'': a [[fighting game]] in which Rambo is a playable DLC character via [[downloadable content]], with Sylvester Stallone reprising his role.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate brings Rain, Mileena, and Rambo |url=https://blog.playstation.com/2020/10/08/mortal-kombat-11-ultimate-brings-rain-mileena-and-rambo/ |publisher=PlayStation Blog |access-date=8 October 2020 |date=October 8, 2020}}</ref> In his arcade ending, Rambo defeated Kronika and planned to use her hourglass to right every wrong in history. As picking who lives and who dies would "kill his soul", Rambo walked away forever this time, stating "After all I've been through, I've earned a little peace".
* ''[[Call of Duty Warzone]]'', ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War]]'' and ''[[Call of Duty: Mobile]]'' featured the character as a time-limited DLC
* ''[[Rogue Company]]'': a shooter game video game where Rambo is a character skin for the character Seeker
==See also==
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