It sounds like we can expect more The Expendables, as well as Rambo prequel John Rambo. More on a new Lionsgate deal, here. Lionsgate has been doing a bit of shopping as the American Film Market – AFM – gets underway. In particular, it’s announced it’s snapped up the rights to a pair of franchises. ... The Expendables | Rights change hands to action franchise
It sounds like we can expect more The Expendables, as well as Rambo prequel John Rambo. More on a new Lionsgate deal, here.
Lionsgate has been doing a bit of shopping as the American Film Market – AFM – gets underway. In particular, it’s announced it’s snapped up the rights to a pair of franchises.
The first is Rambo, where Lionsgate now has the worldwide rights to the upcoming sixth Rambo film, John Rambo. This is the Rambo origins film that the world was, er, crying out for. Noah Centineo is going to taking the lead, and the deal also allows for the option of a spin-off TV series too.
However, the other part of the agreement that Lionsgate has reached concerns the stalled The Expendables series. Since someone had the wise plan of bundling together a bunch of old school action stars and making the third film PG-13, it’s a series that’s been in stasis (and yep, had clean forgotten the fourth film, which is telling in its own right.)
But it’s presumably not entirely dormant, given that Lionsgate now has the rights to make ‘derivative films and TV series’, as well as video games and – yikes! – ‘immersive experiences’. Imagine what those could be.
Presumably the focus is going to be more on films and TV shows, rather than some kind of savage take on Secret Cinema. Still, these days, who could call it?
The fresh deal has been struck with Millennium Films, which has been working on The Expendables from the start, and on the more recent Rambo outings. John Rambo is obviously next, which Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani have penned the script for. Jalmari Helander, of Sisu fame, was announced as director a little while back, although he’s just in the midst of promoting Sisu: Road To Revenge. Presumably once he’s done with that, he’s still straight onto John Rambo, so to speak, and he might just be an inspired choice.
More on The Expendables escape room, or whatever ‘experience’ comes out of all this, as we hear it.
