No More Rambo Sequel

Sylvester Stallone is ready to call it quit on his famous portrayal of one John Rambo.

Word comes by way of Variety where Stallone conceded that, despite working on a script for Rambo V over the past two-to-three years, he now has no plans to continue the gun-toting renegade’s story on screen.

“You know when you realize there’s nothing more to pull out? As an action film, I was very satisfied that it dealt with the Burmese situation. It had one foot in a current event, the longest civil war in history, 65 years at that time. It was so brutal, which civil war is, I was shocked they even gave me an R-rating. I didn’t want to compromise. I said, This is probably going to be the last decent film of this genre that I’m going to do as a solo act. When that was accomplished, I never felt the same willingness to do it again. There’s nothing left. When they asked me to do another Rambo, I said, “If I can’t do better than I did last time, and I can’t, then why?” he said

It’s too early to tell how if Stallone’s decision to hang up the machine gun will have an impact on FOX’s TV revival. Said to focus on the son of John Rambo, the network’s spinoff is in the early stages of development, though Stallone himself admitted that shifting focus away from the core character is a difficult feat.

Sylvester Stallone’s future as Rambo may be non-existent at this point, but it appears there’s still hope for his future as Rocky Balboa.