Oct 14 2009 'Expendables' Trailer: I Refuse To Believe This Is Real
Nice try, Sylvester Stallone. I'm sure you'd like us all to believe this promotional trailer is for an actual movie that you're supposedly making. But I know a viral video that compiles every clichéd '80s action movie scene ever made into a fake trailer when I see one, and this has to be that:
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May 15 2009 'The Expendables' Poster: Let Me Touch Up Your Tattoo
With a cast that includes Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, and other guys easily capable of murder, The Expendables is definitely the upcoming movie most being described on the internet as "fucking badass." Thus, for the above first poster for the film, they've wisely shown off the badass, Expendable-themed tattoo one of the characters presumably has.
But I'm just thinking, having seen far more intense scenes depicted in Russian prison tattoos, is this really enough? I'm just thinking we could tweak this to make it slightly more appropriately badass.
Here's what I'm thinking:
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Apr 29 2009 Things Exploding on 'Expendables' Set
Want to see some guys diving away from a giant explosion? Sure you do. The entire action genre is based around studio executives knowing you always want to see that. So enjoy this brief behind-the-scenes featurette from the set of The Expendables. You'll not only see just such a classic explosion-dive-away, you'll also get a little Directing 101 from Sylvester Stallone. First lesson: if you like how a scene turned out, grunt "that's sex" so that the crew knows they did a good job.
Apr 13 2009 Sylvester Stallone is the Veiny 'Expendable'
ComingSoon has just posted some new photos from the Brazilian set of The Expendables, and I'll tell you, Stallone may be in his 60s, but the guy still manages to look like a Times Square caricature with the arms of a He-Man figure. Amazing.
Mar 20 2009 50-Cent, E-Rob Join 'Expendables'
You can stop looking for Idi Amin or Gandhi in Stallone's The Expendables. Forest Whitaker and Ben Kingsley are out! And in their place, you're getting a 50-Cent and an Eric Roberts, respectively. Sly lays it out in the following message he sent to AICN:
Hale Caesar is Curtis Jackson Toll Road (new character) is Randy Couture Monroe is Eric Roberts Tool (an ex-Expendable) is Mickey Rourke Bao is Jet Li Lee Christmas is Jason Statham Lacy is Charisma Carpenter Sandra is Giselle Itie (famous Brazilian actress) And Barney 'the schizo' Ross is Yours Truly.The anger of the casting of 50 Cent is understandable,
but not fair. A player is only as good as his coach. If a man can
communicate in one medium, he can communicate in another if his strengths
are brought out and he has the support of well-wishers. So, trust me, the
change of Forest Whitaker to 50 Cent AKA Curtis Jackson is a good one.Nobody wanted Eric Roberts over Ben Kingsley, but I believe it's a vastly
improved casting. The point is, you either believe in me and the project,
setting your personal feelings aside, or you take a darker approach, which
really serves no purpose since your insight and suggestions and overall enthusiasm are a great thrill for me to behold everyday I sign on.
Of course nobody wanted Eric Roberts over Ben Kingsley, but you don't have to say that, Stallone. Don't rub it in Eric Roberts' face that he is Eric Roberts. He managed to get in The Dark Knight. Let him have that for few years before reminding him he will never, in any way, be more desirable an actor than Ben Kingsley.
It's alright, E.R. At least you still have your hair.
Mar 11 2009 Schwarzenegger's 'Expendables' Cameo Negligible
Arnold disappointed some of his biggest fans (the Arnold fans of TheArnoldFans.com) this weekend when he downplayed his cameo in Sylvester Stallone's action star supergroup film The Expendables, claiming his appearance will be extremely brief:
[The cameo] will just be something quick, like I walk out of a hotel or out of a office building and he will walk up and we will bump into each other and there will be some mumbling and then we will walk off (crowd laughs). So it will be something very simple, that will be again, just a cameo, so that's what we're going to do. I promised him I'd do that and I'm looking forward to that.
I know he's probably exaggerating, but I really wish that were his entire cameo: this really long shot where you can't exactly make out who it is, some indistinct muttering, Stallone explaing, "That was Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger," and finally some approving nods from the rest of the Expendable crew. That's it. Or maybe Sly entering a bar's single-toilet bathroom only to find the back of a large man in a suit already using it, and you hear a panicked, distinctly Austrian, "It's taken!" If the cameo is going to be a brief, pointless encounter, I say the more vague and arbitrary the better.
Feb 18 2009 God, They Got Terminator and Machete, Too?
The Expendables has just gained even more aging action hero cred: AICN reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger has a cameo in the film, while Latino Review adds that Danny Trejo will have a part as well. The cast of Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lungdren, and Mickey Rourke is officially only a Van Damme and a Seagal away from having the action ensemble gravity of the sun. If only the Traveling Wilburys were still around to do the soundtrack.
