Thirty plus years later, Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren are back together.

In order to generate buzz for the impending Rocky movie franchise, Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren are working hard. They recently shared a photo of themselves together for the first time in more than 30 years.

With 2015’s “Creed,” which followed Apollo Creed’s son Adonis as he trained under Rocky Balboa, the Rocky movie franchise entered a second generation. It now seems that in the upcoming movie, Adonis Creed will seek revenge for the death of his father.

After being knocked out by Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) in Rocky IV, Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) never woke up in what is widely regarded as the greatest boxing movie of all time. It’s expected that Michael B. Jordan’s character Adonis Creed would challenge Drago to a duel in the upcoming movie. He might try to pick a quarrel with Drago’s son as well.

This is how the movie is described on IMDB:

“Adonis Creed tries to seek revenge when he goes toe to toe with the man who killed his father.”

Rocky Balboa vs. Ivan Drago

Of the many things fans loved about Rocky IV, was the epic fight scene between Drago and Rocky. The montage fight-scene features Rocky getting heavily beaten by the much larger Drago early in the bout. As fans would find out later, the blows looked realistic because they were, in fact, real punches. In order to make the film look as realistic as possible, Stallone instructed Lundgren to really hit him during the scene.

“Hey I got an idea, for the first 45 seconds, really try to knock me out, I mean go for it,” Stallone explains he said to Lundgren. “Bad idea. He comes across—boom, boom! He catches me in the chest. Woah. Cut, cut cut, I am directing so I can do that. CUT CUT. He says, ‘What?’ I said, ‘What? I thought I had a car accident!”

Stallone would continue to say that the beating he took from Lundgren that day sent him to the hospital for a 5-day stay:

“Later that night my blood pressure goes up to 260, I go to hospital, they put me in an emergency jet and fly me back to America. Next thing I know I’m in intensive care for five days with nuns walking around.”

“He hit my heart so hard that it banged against my ribs and started to swell, and that usually happens in car accidents. So I was hit by a truck!”

Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren

Warner Bros. Pictures is producing Creed 2, which is scheduled for release on November 21, 2018. As of yet, only Stallone, Jordan, and Lundgren have been officially confirmed for the movie.

The news that Stallone will be directing the film broke in October. To share the news, Stallone made the following announcement on his social media accounts:

“Looking forward to directing and Producing The incredibly talented Michael B Jordan in CREED 2 next year … One more Round !