David Harbour's gonna try to boss Rambo around in the Rambo prequel

See, Harbour has just signed on for a co-starring role in John Rambo, the bizarre First Blood prequel that Noah Centineo is starring in for Lionsgate and Sisu director Jalmari Helander. Specifically, Harbour will be playing Major Trautman, the authority figure memorably played by Richard Crenna in 1982’s First Blood and its two far-more-gung-ho sequels, a.k.a. the only man on the planet capable of telling John Rambo what to do.

It’s not like we can’t see it: Harbour is a natural inheritor of Crenna’s Hollywood dadbod vibes, and his mustache looks custom-built for growling orders through. It’s more that we remain somewhat baffled that the film exists at all: The Rambo franchise is already a weird series of whiplashes between being somewhat respectful portrayals of PTSD, like First Blood and the later films in the franchise, and the much more bloodthirsty movies Sylvester Stallone was making in the late ’80s. Adding a prequel starring one of Netflix’s teen heartthrobs as he develops all that trauma feels like a weird convolution of Hollywood’s never-ending nostalgia addiction.

Interestingly, news of Harbour’s casting is breaking after the film already wrapped production; the movie reportedly finished shooting in Thailand back in March. (On a similar weird timing note, Stallone himself—who’d previously grumbled that he should play Young Rambo—was only announced as an executive producer on the film around the same time.) No word yet on when John Rambo is expected to arrive in theaters.