Sylvester Stallone, returns to Cannes as one of the latest additions to the 72nd Cannes Film Festival with a first look at Rambo V – Last Blood starring Stallone again as John Rambo.

Sylvester Stallone will have a special screening in the Palais des Festivals on Friday, May 24 and he will introduce on stage some exclusive images of Rambo V.

After a video montage of his career, the world premiere restoration of Ted Kotcheff’s Rambo – First Blood will be screened in 4K DCP in the Grand Théâtre Lumière

Rambo V: Last Blood is directed by Adrian Grunberg and stars Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega along with Oscar Jaenada. The film will be released in the US and worldwide from September 20. It will be distributed in France by Metropolitan Filmexport on October 8.

Rambo: First Blood by Ted Kotcheff (1982), starring Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy and Richard Crenna, will be screened with a restored print by Studiocanal. The restoration of the Rambo trilogy was made from the original camera negatives, which were scanned in 4K resolution 16bit in Technicolor Hollywood. Then the full restoration was done at Éclair in Paris. Grading was done respectively for theatrical by HDR Dolby. The film was restored frame by frame in the respect of the artistic choices of the original production.