Category: Expendables 3

Craig’s Suggestions for Expendables 3

Craig / / 2013, Expendables 3

  • I would suggest something big on US soil for the Expendables’ mission. Go easy on the wisecracks and humor.
  • Olympus Has Fallen opened this weekend with over $30 million in receipts and an A- CinemaScore.  Audiences will still show up for action movies.
  • Expendables members need to die.  I love the characters, but let’s lose some on to shock the audience and raise the stakes.
  • Perhaps the team accepts a mission from Bruce Willis’ character.  Since the CIA can’t operate on US soil, he brings in the Expendables to take down a home-grown terrorist group.  Although way outgunned the Expendables accomplish their goal. Unfortunately several of the Expendables are killed during the mission.
  • Perhaps even have Couture’s character killed after the Expendables have stopped the terrorists.  The terrorists know they can’t obtain their goal, so as payback to the Expendables they torture and kill Couture (perhaps Barney and the remaining Expendables are watching on live video feed).  Once they kill Couture the terrorists make their getaway.  Barney and the remaining team members call in new recruits and go after the terrorists.
  • This would show the Expendables are expendable.  It would also show how good they are since they accomplish their mission against greater odds.  This set-up would start the movie with a bang and give reason to bring in the young guns.  It would also make the second part of the movie’s mission very personal.

Where Sly Could Take Expendables 3

Craig / / 2013, Expendables 3

On March 14, 2013, Flickering Myth posted a piece which took a look at The Expendables 3: Where Stallone Could / Should Take the Third Installment.  Here are a few quotes…

  • The key thing for the next film isn’t just about the next action icons who get cast. First and foremost is the quality of the film…the third film must work, not just as a piece of stunt casting, and a gimmick laden homage, but as a piece of film.
  • Predator, taking the alien aspects out, was the perfect template for an Expendables movie to be. The toughest of the tough, taking out the trash. Something simple, yet made with brilliant efficiency and wonderful clarity in its action.
  • There are plenty of potential directors out there…  John Woo has thrown his hat into the ring…   there’s a feeling, a bit like the Mission: Impossible franchise, that a different director for each film is the way to go…  Shane Black would be a great choice, to not only direct but script as well. After all, if The Expendables unites the crème de la crème of action stars, why not add one of the best action screenwriters.
  • Many rumours have already circulated. Nicolas Cage has been mentioned consistently, as has Jackie Chan. A popular choice amongst fans (and even current cast) is Wesley Snipes. All three would add a great deal. I’m not a Cage fan by any stretch, but his manic style could provide entertainment and enliven a potentially forgettable side character. I can see him as a crazy government agent perhaps. Chan would be brilliant.
  • Wesley Snipes could be an ideal villain.
  • This is a potential sticking point. It’s the young cast members. Firstly it goes against what the films represent and why people watch them. It also seems in some part, a possible way to gradually let the old dogs go out into pasture and let the fresh blood take over.
  • Also for many, another group remains largely untapped from the first two film, and that is from the plethora of 80’s/90’s video action stars who could make appearances… such as Don ‘The Dragon’ Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, Mark Dacascos, Olivier Gruner, Lorenzo Lamas and more… like Rutger Hauer, Christopher Lambert and Gary Busey (I could go on even more).
  • One thing that needs addressing is a lack of expendability from The Expendables. There needs to be some culling to offer some dramatic impact and at least some semblance of vulnerability… Then there’s Dolph. Gunnar went from crazy and unbalanced in the first to a comical Frankenstein’s monster in the second. In both films Lundgren is a scene stealer, but for the third things should take a darker turn again. Gunner is a character who was written to die. He’s destined to burn out in style. Dolph is awesome and I enjoyed his performance in the second but logic dictate he should have died in the first film as originally intended. This time around Gunnar has to explode out in a blaze of glory.

I agree with everything quoted in this piece and most everything in Tom Jolliffe’s article. 

 

Sly Tweets “Expendables 3”

Craig / / 2013, Expendables 3

Earlier this month Sly sent out a series of four tweets about Expendables 3…

Writing EX3 at the moment… there are going to be mountains of surprises…

EX3 needs NEW blood and more humor…. The films were always meant to be more on the humorous side with moments of drama

No S. Seagal, sorry ,but maybe we get lucky with J. Chan! And some young bloods!!!

By young I mean 22 to 27. Not big bruisers but tech wizard, super brains and a young woman who is not a sex symbol but funny ,tough,REAL

This, of course, made news at several sites…

 

Nu-Image/Millennium Promoting Rambo V

Craig / / 2013, Expendables 3, Rambo 5

MovieHole recently posted that Nu-Image/Millennium had Rambo V posters on display at the Berlin Film Festival.  The poster is a slightly modified take on a previous poster used to promote the idea of a new Rambo film.  According to the piece…

…the new “Rambo” won’t happen before Sly gets back with his ‘Expendables’ buddies though; Millennium announced in Berlin that “The Expendables 3″ – which will assumingly reunite Stallone with co-stars Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis etc – is gearing up to shoot this Summer. Guessing Sly’s already got his draft in. With “The Expendables 2″ making over $300 million worldwide, this is a no-brainer.

Dolph Lundgren Thinks Expendables 3 Will Film This Fall

Craig / / 2013, Celebs, Expendables 3

According to this post at The Daily Blam, Dolph Lundgren Confirms Expendables 3 May Begin Shooting This Fall…

“From what I understand, they won’t even have The Expendables 3 ready until the fall… I have heard that they do want Wesley Snipes. They want Jackie Chan. Nicolas Cage, I have heard too. But we don’t know want is going on just yet. “

Jason Statham Talks Expendable 3, Homefront & More

Craig / / 2013, Celebs, Expendables 3, Homefront

On January 15, 2013, Collider posted an update with Jason Statham.  In it Statham talked about Homefront [written by Sly], Expendables 3 and more.  Here are some tidbits…

Homefront is a film that Sylvester Stallone wrote for himself actually.  So, to have a screenplay presented to me by him that he was intending to star in himself was a career point for me.  I said, “Wow!”  He’s a great writer and it’s a really, really cool story.  It’s based on a book written by Chuck Logan called Homefront.  He adapted it to suit me.  It was like a tailor-made suit and Sly did all the sewing.  Fantastic!

Did Sly talk to you at all about Expendables 3 and casting?  Statham:  No.  I saw him on stage at the Golden Globes and he gave me the look.  He went “Whoo!”  He hasn’t said anything but I hear rumors.  I should never go with rumors because they’re often not correct, but I hear Jackie Chan might be coming to the party and that would make me very happy because I do like Jackie Chan.

 

Jackie Chan Says He’s Ready to be Expendable

Craig / / 2012, Celebs, Expendables 3

Jackie Chan announced that he is ready for a role in Expendables 3 and the story caught fire. – Craig