Stallone

Nu Image/Millennium Films announced that they have green-lit a fifth chapter to the Rambo franchise. Sylvester Stallone will direct and star.

Variety reports that the story will be about “Rambo fighting his way through human traffickers and drug lords to rescue a young girl abducted near the U.S.-Mexico border.” Production is scheduled to begin this upcoming spring.

The previous installment, 2008’s Rambo, grossed $42 million in the U.S. and $113 million abroad.