Sylvester Stallone: Rambo will fight ISIS in Last Blood

Who says Rambo, the volatile veteran of the Vietnam War with a chip on his massive shoulder, isn't relevant?

Sylvester Stallone on Monday announced at Comic-Con in San Diego that the latest installation in the Rambo franchise, Last Blood, will see John Rambo take on the Islamic State.

"We have teams scouting Iraq and parts of Syria where ISIS have their greatest strongholds," Stallone said, according to The Independent. "We're working with the locals there to help deliver the most intense and realistic Rambo movie experience ever."

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That hardly means the plot of Last Blood is set in stone. Stallone previously said the movie would be set in Mexico, a Rambo-ized version of No Country for Old Men.

Update: Looks like Stallone didn't actually say this. The Independent and others based their reports on a hoax site.