{"id":140483,"date":"2025-08-12T19:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140483\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:47:11","slug":"sylvester-stallone-hands-over-iconic-rambo-role-to-29-year-old-up-and-coming-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140483\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvester Stallone Hands Over Iconic Rambo Role to 29-Year-Old Up-and-Coming Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sylvester Stallone Hands Over Iconic Rambo Role to 29-Year-Old Up-and-Coming Actor<\/a> originally appeared on Parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To this very day, Sylvester Stallone remains permanently tied to two characters above all others: the relatable underdog boxer Rocky Balboa and the traumatized Vietnam War veteran, John Rambo.<\/p>\n

Arguably two of the most iconic characters in American cinema, Stallone has routinely reprised each respective role over the past 40 years.<\/p>\n

Now, it seems that the 79-year-old Tulsa King star is finally ready to hand over the trademark archery bow of his legendary First Blood character to to 29-year-old actor, Noah Centineo.<\/p>\n

According to various media outlets, Centineo has officially been cast as a younger iteration of Stallone’s action hero for the upcoming prequel, John Rambo.<\/p>\n

A project currently in active development, the new film will focus on Rambo’s early years in the Vietnam War, specifically depicting his grueling service in a Green Beret Special Forces unit.<\/p>\n

The film will be directed by Rare Exports filmmaker Jalmari Helander, with a script provided by Black Adam scribes Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani.<\/p>\n

The new film will serve as the sixth addition to the long-running Rambo series since the series began in 1982. Previously, Stallone reprised his role as the titular hero throughout the franchise, last appearing as the character in 2019’s Rambo: Last Blood.<\/p>\n

In terms of Centineo’s career, the young actor first received his start in the entertainment industry as a Disney Channel star, playing a featured role on Austin & Ally from 2011 to 2012.<\/p>\n

Following this, Centineo managed to land a starring role on Freeform’s family drama, The Fosters, taking over the role of Jesus Adams Foster following original actor Jake T. Austin’s departure from the series after its second season.<\/p>\n

More famously, Centineo remains more readily known for his appearances in Netflix’s popular romantic comedy franchise, To All the Boys, reprising his main role in the series a total of three times from 2018 to 2021.<\/p>\n

Sylvester Stallone Hands Over Iconic Rambo Role to 29-Year-Old Up-and-Coming Actor<\/a> first appeared on Parade on Aug 12, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Aug 12, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sylvester Stallone Hands Over Iconic Rambo Role to 29-Year-Old Up-and-Coming Actor originally appeared on Parade. To this very…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,83879,82556,53,82558,83878,82858,68987,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-140483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-iconic-characters","10":"tag-john-rambo","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-noah-centineo","13":"tag-rambo-series","14":"tag-rocky-balboa","15":"tag-sylvester-stallone","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115017524436058789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}