6:03PM Clem Bastow | We like an ultraviolent shoot/rip/stab/burn/behead-’em-up as much as the next person, so have been enjoying the
trailer for the upcoming Rambo installment for the last few months.
However, when the events in Burma started to make the trailer look less like an ripping action yarn and more like a documentary, the fun fizzled.
Well, Sylvester Stallone has this morning spoken of
witnessing atrocities in the region while filming John Rambo (the latest in the series, which he is currently editing) along the border of Burma.
“I witnessed the aftermath – survivors with legs cut off and all kinds of land mine injuries, maggot-infested wounds and ears cut off. We saw many elephants with blown off legs. We hear about Vietnam and Cambodia and this was more horrific,” Stallone told Associated Press.
“Shots were fired over the film crew’s heads and we did receive threats,” he said.
Sly is now planning to interview survivors and use John Rambo to raise their profile.
We’re not sure how well scenes of Rambo liquefying the junta with his tank gun will go down with those who are also trying to speak out against the regime, but at least he’s doing something.
Failing this, of course, they could just send Rambo in to sort things out. Because Rambo is real, right?
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