Noah Centineo will reportedly play a young Rambo in prequel film
Warfare star Noah Centineo has reportedly been cast as a young Rambo in an upcoming prequel film.
According to a Deadline Hollywood report, Millennium Media was workshopping a Rambo origin film earlier this year, and have now seemingly found their lead star in the form of Noah Centineo.
Concrete details surrounding the film’s development have yet to be shared, though Deadline‘s sources claim that filming is due to begin at the start of next year in Thailand, with Sisu director Jalmari Helander at the helm and writing duo Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani penning a script.
The prequel film’s plot is also currently under wraps, but according to Deadline, will explore a young John Rambo’s origin story set in the Vietnam war before the events of 1982’s First Blood.
Deadline also reports that while original franchise star Sylvester Stallone is aware of the developments being made, he is not attached to the project in any capacity. Neither Centineo nor Millennium Media have addressed the casting rumours.
Besides starring in Warfare, Centineo is also known for roles in Black Adam, To All The Boys I Loved Before, The Recruit, The Perfect Date and more. He is also slated to star as Ken Masters in an upcoming live-action adaptation of Street Fighter.
In February last year, Stallone spoke of passing the torch to another actor – and it wasn’t Centineo. Speaking of a run-in he had with Ryan Gosling, the Rocky star said: “I met [Gosling] at a dinner. [Gosling] goes, ‘I was fascinated by Rambo and I used to go to school dressed as Rambo and people would chase me away and I still didn’t stop. I’d vacation as Rambo.’ He just kept saying that he had a lot of affiliation with Rambo.”
“And I thought, you know, this is interesting. If I ever pass the baton, I’ll pass it on to him because he loves the character,” Stallone added at the time.
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