Sylvester Stallone is "secretly raging" his first choice to play Rambo in the reboot of his action franchise wasn’t signed up to the upcoming movie, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

The 79-year-old actor, who embodied the battle-scarred Vietnam veteran John Rambo for almost four decades, had hoped to hand over the role to Ryan Gosling , 44. Article continues below advertisement

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Instead, producers have cast Noah Centineo, 29, in a reboot set to chart a young Rambo 's experiences in the Vietnam War.

A source told us: "Sly had his eye on Ryan for years to take the part, and thinks he would have been a far better fit than Noah. He’s basically raging it’s going ahead without a Hollywood he

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