Hollywood icon Sylvester Stallone teases a different kind of superhero in the latest featurette for the upcoming action outing, Samaritan. Released courtesy of the official Prime Video YouTube channel, the clip takes us behind-the-scenes of the grim and gritty superhero movie, as well as offering a smattering of new footage. You can check out the Samaritan featurette, titled Fight for Granite City, below.

A new, lengthier synopsis for Samaritan has also now been released and reads; “Thirteen-year-old Sam Cleary (Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton) suspects that his mysterious and reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith (Sylvester Stallone) is actually a legend hiding in plain sight. Twenty-five years ago, Granite City’s super-powered vigilante, Samaritan, was reported dead after a fiery warehouse battle with his rival, Nemesis. Most believe Samaritan perished in the fire, but some in the city, like Sam, have hope that he is still alive. With crime on the rise and the city on the brink of chaos, Sam makes it his mission to coax his neighbor out of hiding to save the city from ruin.”

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Directed by Overlord’s Julius Avery and produced by Sylvester Stallone and Braden Aftergood from a screenplay by Bragi F. Schut, Samaritan stars Sylvester Stallone as Joe Smith AKA Samaritan alongside Euphoria and The Umbrella Academy star Javon Walton as Sam Cleary. The supporting cast includes the likes of Martin Starr (Spider-Man: Far From Home), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Dascha Polanco (In the Heights), Natacha Karam (The Old Guard), as well as Jared Odrick, Michael Aaron Milligan, Deacon Randle, and Game of Thrones actor Pilou Asbæk as gang leader, Cyrus.

Samaritan is Due to be Released on Prime Video on Friday

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Superhero and action movie fans have been waiting for Samaritan for quite some time. The release of Samaritan has been delayed several times, with the movie initially due to hit theaters on November 20, 2020, before being pushed to December 11, 2020, and then to June 4, 2021. Now, Samaritan will instead be beamed straight into people’s homes, landing on Prime Video this week.

Described as “a dark, new take on superhero movies,” Samaritan promises all manner of R-rated mayhem, with director Julius Avery revealing that the project will find the 76-year-old Sylvester Stallone doing what he does best; dispatching bad guys as violently as possible.

“We didn’t really have superheroes. We only had action heroes. And Sly was the closest thing we had to a superhero. So to put him in a superhero movie?” the filmmaker explained. “That feels fresh and cool and something that people will get a kick out of. This is a big event movie - we see our heroes kicking ass. We’re going to see Sly do things he hasn’t done in a long time, and in a really inventive way. He’s 73 years old! I’m amazed by how much he actually does. I’m telling you, most guys in their twenties wouldn’t be able to do what Sly does in this movie.”