The Expendables

The Expendables

Submitted by phletch on Wed, 2010-03-31 13:25
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Release Date: 
Aug 13 2010
Director: 
Sylvester Stallone
Cast: 
Sylvester Stallone
Cast: 
Jason Statham
Cast: 
Jet Li
Cast: 
Dolph Lundgren
Synopsis: 
A team of mercenaries head to South America on a mission to overthrow a dictator.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the trailer for The Expendables is as awesome as it is.  I also love how short and efficient the synopsis is, just like the good old days.  Considering how manly this whole thing is I'm starting to wonder if Stallone is going to use the Two and a Half Men theme song in it. 

Mickey Rourke Becoming Expendable Iron Man Too

Submitted by phletch on Thu, 2009-01-08 11:25
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I should have probably posted my review of The Wrestler by now but I should have probably learned how to control my inner monologue by now too. You can't win them all. But don't tell Mickey Rourke. As Hollywood always likes to prove, whatever is hot is good! So, let's get Mickey Rourke in a bunch of movies and give no credit to Aronofsky for his amazing directing. If the title didn't give it away, Rourke has been cast as part of the mercenary team in Stallone's The Expendables.

Rourke will play an unscrupulous arms dealer who becomes the go-to guy for the group of mercenaries

and for Iron Man 2

Rourke would play a tattooed Russian heavy named Ivan who becomes Whiplash, a man with deadly, technologically enhanced coils.

I don't know why, but for some reason I don't see Stallone and Favreau pulling out a subtle nuanced performance from the Rourkester. Call me crazy. Luckily that should work with these cash cows.

The one good part about this report is one of my personal favorite actors, Mr Sam Rockwell is going to be getting in on the Iron Man fun too.

Rockwell would play Justin Hammer, a multibillionaire businessman and a rival of industrialist Anthony Stark, AKA Iron Man, being played by a returning Robert Downey Jr

Hollywood Reporter article

Rambo Becomes Expendable But Probably More Rambo Still

Submitted by phletch on Thu, 2008-11-06 11:34
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Buried in this mess of a story is the fact that they are planning on another Rambo. Stallone is a piece of work I tell you. I also forgot to mention that Frank Stallone shattered my "Guys I Respect Because They Are Related To People That Are Really Sweet" theory when he was the biggist ninny I have ever seen on Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling. That being said Sly Stallone is still writing , albeit incredibly poorly. Based on his own original screenplay, with Sly again in the directing chair, The Expendables will team Stallone along with Jason Statham (Transporter guy) and Jet Li (one of those karate dudes) as a group of mercenaries that are supposed to do some stuff, presumably with their brute strength and glares.

In "Expendables," the main characters are sent to infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator to liberate the population. Their team is "expendable," hired to do jobs that no one else can or will.

Principal photography will begin in February in Costa Rica and Louisiana. The producers are courting big international presales at the American Film Market.

Producers are courting money? That can't be right. I expect this movie to be a terd sandwich, hold the mayo.

Hollywood Reporter article
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