Hello my friends, back in April I told you about what I thought would be the greatest action movie of all time…the Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme team-up. But I was wrong. It seems that a greater action movie will be coming out. However, it won’t be released till 2010. This is all thanks to one man, Sylvester Stallone. The name of this movie you ask? well it’s called The Expendables.
Sly is the writer/director/star in this new movie but he is not the only one, he has brought a few friends along for the ride including Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke, Brittany Murphy, Charisma Carpenter, Gary Daniels, and the Governator himself Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now you might be thinking “Holy Shit! this must be a fucking joke right?” Wrong! It’s real and it’s going to be big. Just look at the cast; it’s an action star overload. It’s the biggest team up since Jean-Claude teamed up with himself in Double Impact.
Looking at this roster nothing, and I mean Nothing! could stop this group; it’s just too crazy to think about. Even more crazy in fact, producer Avi Lerner has said sequels are being planned. “We already have got some ideas about Expendables No. 2, No. 3,” and “Definitely, it’s a franchise movie” are some of the things he told Nola.com. The sequels will give Stallone a chance to bring on some of the actors he previously wanted for the first film, like Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jackie Chan, Steven Seagal and Kurt Russell. To top it all off, they still haven’t released an authentic trailer for this yet.
Now with a budget of 80 million, an all star-cast and a classic 80’s action plot-line based around “A team of mercenaries head to South America on a mission to overthrow a dictator”, I’m thinking this will either be the greatest movie ever made or the worst of all time. Either way I’ll be first in line to see this. I’m expecting big explosions, gun battles and the death of even more action stars than the Internet video The Ultimate Showdown. I pray to the lord above (praise Jebus) that this is a long-term franchise, with the possibilities for other action stars to get in on the fun. So with that, I leave you with one more thought; with all the stars they have and would like, could we possibly see Chuck Norris make a comeback (or will at least sing the theme song)? One can only hope. Check out the pictures below.
Like every other franchise grubbing, WOW factor seeking sack of bullshit of a movie coming out of Holywood right now, I suspect this one will be no different and will suck oh so erotically hard.
I am so excited about this movie. Stallone and Lundgren back together.
Your blog has been nominated for a BoB award where the top prize gets 1,000 dollars so good luck and i wish it was 2010 already
Three-part question:
Who will deliver the best one-liner?
Will there be one scene where they surround a bad guy and they all deliver one-liners so foul the enemy spontaneously combusts?
and why does Brittany Murphy deserve a mention? Is she an action star? (last one is rhetorical, doesn’t count)
I call BS
I’d pay to see most of these guys movies alone and now they’re all together, come on this is awesome.
I’m guessing Statham and Stallone get the best lines (Maybe Rourke) but I heard Dolph is a big part of the movie and he’s the psychopath of the group which sounds odd considering the rest of the cast but i’m excited.
Welcome, I can see some names I recognize from horror-movies.ca. Well what can we say, it’s a very real movie. I personally think that it’s being made just to bring back old action stars of the past and give them one good kick of the cat before they can no longer do action movies any more.