Sylvester Stallone has bid sweet adieu to his two most memorable cinematic creations,
Rambo and Rocky, despite the successful launch of Rambo in the US last weekend
The ageing action hero defied a mauling from the critics when his fourth, eponymously titled Rambo instalment debuted in second place in the US charts with a decent haul of a little over $18m (£9.1m).
“This is the last Rambo just as Rocky Balboa is the last Rocky,” Stallone told reporters. “I can't go any further. It was a miracle that it even got done.”
Stallone's comments may come as a surprise to Harvey Weinstein, however, who said on Sunday that he expected the series to continue after the film's auspicious release.
The Rambo and Rocky films have grossed hundreds of millions of dollars around the world and are an immensely appealing prospect to the pack of executives like Weinstein that like to surround money-making ventures.
Stallone produced, directed and starred in Rambo, in which the famously monosyllabic former Green Beret dons the face paint one more time for a hostage rescue mission in Burma.
