The Entertainment Weekly Summer Movie Preview issue takes a full page look at The Expendables. Here’s some of what they have to say…
“It [the scene with Sly, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger] took probably eight months to pull off because of everyone’s schedules,” says Stallone who also directed and co-wrote the $55 million throwback to he-man classics like The Dirty Dozen and The Dogs of War. “With Arnold especially, we’d plan a date and then there’d be a fire or a budget crisis and he’d have to go back to Sacramento.”
Jason Statham is quoted: “What I like about this story is that Sly doesn’t want characters who are superhuman heroes.”
As for the rating, Stallone promises a hard R. After all, just look at the cast, he says. “These guys are born a hard R!”
For Stallone fans, the article on The Expendables will be worth the price of the issue without even taking into account the other 95 summer movies that Entertainment Weekly profiles. The issue is due to hit newstands next week.