With the success of Rock Balboa, it's not suprising that there is a resurgence of 80's action heroes at the box office. Did nobody learn a lesson from 'Escape from L.A.'? The next Indiana Jones movies has been announced. There's 'Live Free or Die Hard'. Sylvester Stallone is following up with even more. A quick look at IMDB shows that he is working on 'Rambo IV: Pearl of the Cobra' along with quite a few others in preproduction:

Death Race 3000 (pre-production) .... Machine Gun Joe Viterbo
Cop World (pre-production) .... Sheriff Freddy Heflin
Over the Top II: Under the Ground (pre-production) .... Lincoln Hawk
The Wake at Kitty and Stud's (pre-production) .... Stud
... aka Italian Stallion II: Deadwood
Cobra II: Pearl of the Rambo (pre-production) .... Lieutenant Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti

No one expected him to die so soon. He only had one foot in the grave, and apparently slipped.

I've been with him for so long, I don't understand how he can kick me to the curb like this. It's been coming for a long time. I know it has. I know for a fact that certain people told him to get rid of me over a decade ago. It's been a waiting game ever since.
I know you people don't care. This is all fodder for your cannons of hatred for my kind. Sometimes it feels like the entire world would rather we not exist.
Thursday. He's getting rid of me Thursday. Where's the wisdom in that?
Well I'm gonna make that bastard pay. He's gonna hurt!
I'm falling apart.

A stingray? Really?
Not a crocodile? Not an anaconda?
Not a viper or a charging rhino?
A stingray.
I had no idea corvettes could be so dangerous.