Three years after the events in Hope, Washington, former U.S. Army Green Beret John Rambo is imprisoned at a penal labor facility. He is met by Colonel Sam Trautman, … See more

The musical score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, conducting the British National Philharmonic Orchestra, although Goldsmith also made heavy use of electronic synthesized elements. The main song is sung by Stallone's brother, singer-songwriter See more

Box office
Rambo: First Blood Part II opened in the United States on May 22, 1985, in a then-record 2,074 … See more

• Sylvester Stallone as John J. Rambo
• Richard Crenna as Colonel Sam Trautman
• Charles Napier as Major Marshall Roger T. Murdock See more

Development and writing
Development of a sequel to First Blood began when Carolco Pictures sold foreign distribution rights to distributors in Europe and Japan in 1983, … See more

Marketing
Unusually for the time, a teaser trailer for Rambo: First Blood Part II—then titled First Blood Part II: The Mission—was released in 3,000 … See more

Sequel
A sequel titled Rambo III was released in 1988.
Novelization
David Morrell, author of First Blood, the novel the first Rambo film is based on, wrote a See more