SUBMITTED BY Kit-Kat

October 10, 2006 —

Production Weekly reports "Sylvester Stallone is set to reprise his role of Vietnam vet John Rambo, in the third sequel in the Rambo franchise. Stallone will also produce and direct the film based on his own script titled, "Rambo IV: In The Serpent's Eye." Production is tentatively slated for January in Thailand.

The next chapter finds Rambo recruited by a group of Christian human rights missionaries to protect them against pirates, during a humanitarian aid deliver to the persecuted Karen people of Burma. After some of the missionaries are taken prisoner by sadistic Burmese soldiers, Rambo gets a second impossible job: to assemble a team of mercenaries to rescue the surviving relief workers. "