Category: 2010

On April 19, 2010, The New York Times posted an article titled: Summer Blockbusters Present Musical Challenges.  Although the article focused on the challenges of creating a new musical score for Iron Man 2, there was this interesting tidbit about scoring The Expendables:

“At one of our test screenings, we put a rock song over a big action sequence as an exercise and on the cards it got completely trashed,” notes Brian Tyler, composer of Sylvester Stallone’s upcoming “The Expendables.” “People really hated it and asked why were we trying to make this into a rock video. We replaced it with orchestral music and the numbers for the film shot up and the notes on the music were great.”

You can read the whole article here.

While filming Killing Kharma in New Orleans, Michael Rappaport decided to adopt a dog used in one of the scenes.  The dog was on loan from the local animal welfare society.  This marks the second time this an actor has adopted a rescue dog used in filming in the Big Easy.  The first involved Sly Stallone adopting a dog he named “Barney” while filming The Expendables.  We reported on it here and this is what the Rappaport article had to say about Sly:

Last summer, Sylvester Stallone adopted a Catahoula leopard dog while shooting the action film “The Expendables,” which lands in theaters Aug. 13. The name of Stallone’s pup: Barney — a name he shares with Stallone’s character in the film.

You can read the full piece here.

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.

Richard Pierce, repeatedly watched the trailer for The Expendables and came to the conclusion that…

… beneath its awesomeness lied something deeper – closer to genius… After studying the trailer as closely as I have, I’m convinced there’s no way “The Expendables” could be anything less than the greatest movie ever.

You can read the whole Rebel Yell article right here.