Rambo 5 images and 4K restoration of First Blood to be shown at Cannes

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Sylvester Stallone will be honored with a career tribute at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, and he's bringing a special treat to the event: when his fifty years in the entertainment industry is celebrated with a video montage, Stallone will also be sharing "exclusive images" from his next film – RAMBO: LAST BLOOD, the fifth film in the Rambo action franchise.

As the title implies, RAMBO: LAST BLOOD is meant to be Stallone's final time playing Rambo. In anticipation of the film's upcoming release, the Cannes Film Festival will also be screening a 4K restoration of the first Rambo film, 1982's FIRST BLOOD, at the Grand Théâtre Lumière.

StudioCanal was behind the restoration of FIRST BLOOD, as well as 4K restorations of 1985's RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II and 1988's RAMBO III. These restorations were made from the original camera negatives, which were scanned in 4K resolution 16bit in Technicolor Hollywood. The restoration was completed at Éclair in Paris, with HDR Dolby handling the theatrical grading.

I don't know what all of that means, but the point is that the first three films in the franchise have all received 4K restorations.

RAMBO: LAST BLOOD was directed by Adrian Grunberg from a script Stallone wrote with Matt Cirulnick. Stallone's co-stars include Paz Vega, Adriana Barraza, Yvette Monreal, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Oscar Jaenada, and Joaquin Cosio. The film will find 

Rambo living on a ranch in Arizona, deeply troubled and wrestling with PTSD as he picks up casual work wherever he can. When longtime family friend and estate manager Maria informs the former soldier that her granddaughter has gone missing after crossing into Mexico for a party, he sets off with her to find the youngster.

In pursuit, Rambo uncovers a sex-trafficking ring and teams up with a journalist whose half-sister has also been kidnapped. He must deploy all his skills to save the girls and bring down a vicious crime lord.

RAMBO: LAST BLOOD is set to reach theatres on September 20th.