There will be more meat per square foot than on the Argentine pampas when the new Sylvester Stallone vehicle, The Expendables, begins shooting soon in Los Angeles and later in Brazil for a 2010 release. Enough even to allay California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s well-known distaste for “girlie-men,” political or otherwise.
Writer/director Stallone is still assembling his testosterone-oozing cast, which already includes himself, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, United Fighting Championship crown-holder Randy Couture, with former action-movie colossus Schwarzenegger in a self-parodying cameo – although such an assemblage in itself may risk self-parody.
Sylvester Stallone
Stallone said, “I wanted to do a film that was more about men and just doing things that we did back in the ’80s and ’90s with films that were a little bit more men on men, and actual physical stunts and also a story that isn’t super-gigantic,” according to Reuters. “And the thing was to find certain personalities that never would ever work together normally and put them altogether. It’s like a dream team.”
The entertainment industry bible Variety reports that acting heavies Forest Whitaker and Ben Kingsley “are also circling the project.” The plot will join the meatiest of the bunch in a mission to overthrow a nasty South American dictator.
It’s a scurrilous lie that the Hair Club for Men and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons have money in the picture.
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