1 of 2 | Honoree Sylvester Stallone and his wife, Jennifer Flavin Stallone, arrive on the red carpet for the annual Kennedy Center Honors at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC in 2025. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
1980s action icons Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger separately announced plans for new sequels to some of their biggest franchises.
“Rambo has been part of my life for a very long time. A character built on resilience, survival, and the scars of war. He’s meant a lot to me and to audiences around the world for decades. Now we’re going back to where his story begins,” Stallone, 79, said on Instagram Monday, alongside a video of him holding up a script.
“I’m excited to be executive producing @JohnRamboFilm, exploring the early chapter of the man before the legend,” he added.
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The Hollywood Reporter said Schwarzenegger, 78, declared his intentions to star in a Conan the Barbarian sequel called King Conan at his Arnold Sports Festival in Ohio last weekend.
He said Christopher McQuarrie is attached to write and direct the movie.
“It’s a great story where Conan was 40 years king… and he gets complacent, and now he gets forced out of the kingdom, slowly. Then there’s conflict, of course, and then he somehow comes back, and then there’s all kinds of madness and violence and magic and creatures,” Schwarzenegger said.
“Now, of course, you have all the special effects, and the studio system has plenty of money to make those movies really big.”
He also said he is talking to filmmakers about new installments in his Predator and Commando franchises.
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive on the red carpet for the 48th annual Kennedy Center Honors at the Kennedy Center in Washington, on December 7, 2025. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
