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The Mirror recently caught up with Dolph Lundgren and asked him about working with Sly and the cast of The Expendables. Here’s a taste…
To read the full piece, click here.
The California Chronicle recently interviewed Expendables co-star Gary Daniels. Here’s a bit of what he had to say about filming with Sly…
Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables premiered on dvd last week and was #1 on the rental charts and #2 on the sales charts!
The art above was created by my brother from another mother, John Beatty at our second annual Black “Stallone” Friday. Last year Big Beatty decided to create a new piece for my Stallone art collection live on U-Stream. This allowed Stallone fans as well as fans of John’s art to watch and interact with us live as John created the piece. We called it “Black Stallone Friday” and had a blast.
This year, John decided to sweeten the pot with a free, Expendables Blu-Ray giveaway. We fired up the Beattytron and began broadcasting from the beautiful JBI Studio in downtown Holly Hill a little before 2pm. The show ran until 9pm — and John still had more to do on the piece. Along the way we were joined by Shana, Sophie, Mike aka Killer Karl Krupp, Royce, Rob Smith Jr., The Mad Pirate, Husky Courdoroy, and others. Shana was the lucky winner of the DVD set.
I can’t thank John enough for the art. As great as it looks on screen, it is even more impressive in person. John set the bar high and surpassed all expectations.
Terry Crews spoke about The Expendables and a whole lot more at CraveOnLine.com.
ArtistDirect also caught up with Terry Crews!
Not to be outdone, the fine folks at CHUD.com also got some time with Terry!
WorstPreviews tried their best and succeeded in getting an interview with Terry Crews.
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On November 17, 2010, Spinoff Online posted a nice little interview with Dolph Lundgren about his role in “The Expendables.” Here are a couple of quotes…
Dolph on his character: “In the original draft, the character [Gunnar] died and was not brought back, but then we started shooting and things changed after a little bit. Actually, there was a bigger scene at the end where suddenly Gunnar came back in an even bigger moment, but then we changed it to a more subtle revival the way it is now where he shows up. That was more tasteful, I thought.
Dolph on setting up his fight scene with Jet Li: “It gets a little erratic on the set because you have Stallone, you have the stunt coordinator, you have a couple of Jet Li’s fight coordinators…and everybody’s trying to get in there and have their say. Obviously, everyone is a bit overworked, and there’s a lot of time pressure. So it’s easy for a real punch to slip in there, but I’m kind of used to that. I still spar in real life, so it doesn’t bother me very much. But there were an unusual number of cooks for that fight because, like I said, all of the coordinators, but Stallone came in – he had been shooting somewhere else, and it was a hot day…one of the hottest when we were filming in New Orleans – and he came in and was like [Puts on Stallone accepts] “Hey, yeah…we’re going to shoot like this…”
You can read the full interview here.
On November 17, 2010, MovieWeb posted a great little interview with Dolph where he talked about “The Expendables” and his next projects. Here are a couple of quotes:
Dolph on how Sly has changed as a director between “Rocky IV” and “The Expendables”: On Rocky IV he was very detailed oriented. He was very intense. He didn’t leave anything to chance. He wants it right. He keeps shooting until he gets it. It was the same this time. I’d worked with other directors in-between. Like Roland Emmerich and John Woo. There is a certain intensity to Sly that these other people don’t have. There is another level. Obviously, he has matured a bit as a man. I think he took more time in talking to the actors about their performances. Maybe he was a little more patient. Basically, ninety percent of it was the same. It was physically intense. He has a “take no prisoners” type of attitude as a director.
Dolph on who he’d like to see join the Expendables sequel: I think Jean-Claude Van Damme would be fun. I’d love to see him in it as a bad guy. Because he has never really played that. I think that would be a big draw. The other guys that I really like in the genre are Wesley Snipes. Vin Diesel. There are a few guys that I really like. There are a few young guys that I really like, too. It could be interesting. There is always Chuck Norris, of course (laughs).
To read the full interview, go here.
Dolph also did a Q&A with ScreenJunkies. Here’s a taste:
Dolph on movie fights and squaring off against Jet Li in The Expendables: The experience was most guys you fight in a movie aren’t movie stars. They’re extras or doubles or stunt men. It’s very rare you fight someone like Stallone or Van Damme if you’re a name actor. That’s always a highlight. Last time I fought somebody like that I guess would have been Van Damme in Universal Soldier, where the actor can fight so you’re actually with the actor.
You can read the whole piece here.
On November 20, 2010, Dolph spoke with WorstPreviews. You know the drill…
Dolph on how he learned about The Expendables: What happened was Stallone called me out of the blue and just said (in Stallone’s voice) ‘Hey Dolph, you know. Here’s a script, you know. Ay yo, check it out.’ So I checked it out and then I checked out the character he told me to look at, Gunner Jensen, the crazy Swedish psycho who drinks too much and kills people. And I thought ‘Ok,’ I understand why he called me, I can do this.
Here’s a link to the whole piece.
On November 15, 2010, TheWrap.com posted their choices for “Eight Great Movie Cameos.” Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appearance in “The Expendables” made the cut. Here’s why…
To see the full list, click here.
As we get even closer to the November 23rd release date of The Expendables, the pressure continues to build. The good folks at the E!Online have provided us with a behind-the-scenes clip to help keep us sane.