{"id":1455,"date":"2009-05-31T06:56:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T10:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2009-05-31T07:10:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T11:10:44","slug":"dolph-talks-expendables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/31\/dolph-talks-expendables\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolph Talks A Lot of &#8220;Expendables&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <strong>May 28th<\/strong>, <strong>Dolph Lundgren<\/strong> sat down with <strong>IGN.com<\/strong> for an exclusive interview.\u00a0 <strong>Dolph<\/strong> talked about directing, <strong>&#8220;Direct Contact&#8221;<\/strong>, the <strong>&#8220;Universal Soldier&#8221; sequel<\/strong> and more.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some of what he had to say about <strong>&#8220;The Expendables&#8221;<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>It&#8217;s the <strong>biggest movie<\/strong> I&#8217;ve worked on. And I realized the other day that I think it&#8217;s the biggest movie that <strong>Sly&#8217;s<\/strong> worked on, too. I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anybody who&#8217;s made more big action movies than he has. He has a lot of experience and he&#8217;s great to work with as a director because he <em>knows<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s one scene toward the end of the film where everybody&#8217;s there \u2013 <strong>Mickey Rourke<\/strong> and <strong>Stallone<\/strong> and <strong>Jet Li <\/strong>and <strong>Jason Statham<\/strong> and <strong>Randy Couture<\/strong> and <strong>Eric Roberts<\/strong>. You see all those chairs lined up, like in those old pictures at <strong>MGM<\/strong> where they&#8217;d line up all the stars, and I&#8217;m just pleased and honored to be one of the group.&#8221;<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.ign.com\/articles\/987\/987611p1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>read the whole piece here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dolph<\/strong> also spoke with <strong>MovieWeb.com<\/strong> and when the talk turned to <strong>&#8220;The Expendables&#8221;<\/strong>, he had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;it&#8217;s a pleasure working with <strong>Stallone<\/strong> again. He&#8217;s a very experienced guy. You know, I direct myself, so I appreciate his advice because I can pass it on. Few people have more experience than him, a lead in a big action movie. I mean, how many big movies has he done in his career? Maybe 30? Big studio pictures? That was fun, so now that I get to suck up his advice and it&#8217;s really fun for me. It&#8217;s a pleasure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a really good character for me too. I&#8217;m the outcast-of-the-family sort of thing. I go back and forth between the good family and the bad guys, so there&#8217;s a lot of great stuff and certainly a lot of action&#8230; I get to play both good and bad. It&#8217;s a little crazy. He&#8217;s a guy with a heart, and <strong>Stallone<\/strong> is no friend of his in the movie. He was my old buddy and we end up parting ways, it gets ugly and there&#8217;s sort of a surprise. You&#8217;ll see.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read the full <strong>MovieWeb.com<\/strong> interview, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movieweb.com\/news\/NEeHgehfCYeWhl\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dolph<\/strong> also spoke about <strong>&#8220;The Expendables&#8221; <\/strong>to <strong>JoBlo.com<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s a taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>Stallone <\/strong>wanted to do a kind of<strong> DIRTY DOZEN<\/strong> type of picture with a bunch of action guys. So he came up with the idea about this group of mercenaries, they all have problems of various sorts. And <strong>Stallone<\/strong> is the leader who put it together&#8230; I loved the script&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know what I like about it is there was a real feeling of real people and it\u2019s not superheroes and there is nobody flying though buildings. Nobody is out to save the world. You know, it\u2019s quite down to earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Stallone<\/strong> writes those things very, very well&#8230; I think <strong>THE EXPENDABLES<\/strong> is one of his better scripts. It\u2019s funny and it\u2019s touching and it\u2019s going to be cool.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joblo.com\/index.php?id=26759\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>the full JoBlo interview<\/strong> <strong>right here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 28th, Dolph Lundgren sat down with IGN.com for an exclusive interview.\u00a0 Dolph talked about directing, &#8220;Direct Contact&#8221;, the &#8220;Universal Soldier&#8221; sequel and more.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some of what he had to say about &#8220;The Expendables&#8221;: &#8220;It&#8217;s the biggest movie I&#8217;ve worked on. 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