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[Agent 76]

OLD SCHOOL ROCKS!

This will be GREAT!

Stallone and Arnold? Ohhh yeah! Commando and Rambo kick A** baby!

[dinovelvet]

I love the way Empire are reporting it: this will be the biggest and best movie of 2010

Together with the icing on the cake that perennial Evil Mexican Dude Danny Trejo will also be on board!

[dodge]

This is definitely going to be the most decliciously cast movie in memory. I'm really hopped up by the addition of Eric Roberts, whose own comeback trail is good news. Most of his early performances were atrocious, unbearably mannered and overacted. But over the years he proved capable of far subtler and more nuanced work. Regrettably, as he began to make more and more schlock straight to video flicks, he became a pariah to producers, who took him as a joke. He and Rourke will likely have some interesting stories to swaps.

The great ripped bodies in this flick may put 300 to shame.

[Blofeld's Cat]

It's amazing what human growth hormone treatments can do. On the outside at least.

[Harmsway]

Schwarzenegger's participation in THE EXPENDABLES isn't a done deal...

[dinovelvet]

Schwarzenegger's participation in THE EXPENDABLES isn't a done deal...

Sly just forgot to send him a case of Cubans, that's all

[marktmurphy]

Schwarzenegger's participation in THE EXPENDABLES isn't a done deal...

Don't take this away from me, Harms...

I love the way that hard bitten movie fan Harry can't even spell Schwartzenegger's name.

[Loomis]

From AICN:

The whole thing is very dependent upon what happens with Arnold's primary gig as the Governor of California. As most of you know, California has been hit brutally by the financial nightmare that has descended upon the world. If you read DRUDGE or any of the papers in California, you can see a stern faced Arnold working with the California legislature to find a way to fix some of the insanity that's happening in that state. That's the primary job that Arnold is working on over the rest of his term as Governor. If there's some daylight in there somewhere, he might possibly find the time to do his friend, Stallone, a favor by being in THE EXPENDABLES.

Now, here's the interesting bit:

My source also tells me that if this miracle does come to pass, you'll find Arnie not as the Governor, but as something a bit more gritty, scarred and brutalized.

Hmmm....

Not sure which I'd prefer were Arnie to take the gig. "Something a bit more gritty, scarred and brutalized" sure sounds interesting, although the idea of him as Governor is actually quite cool in an A-TEAMish way - reminds me of how Hannibal would rub shoulders with movie stars while doing his sideline as a stuntman. Maybe that's how Barney (Sly's character in THE EXPENDABLES) knows Arnie, through doing stunts, body-doubling and dialogue-free small roles in his films (a la Schwarzenegger's pal Franco Columbu). To see Sly and Arnie reminiscing in the Governor's mansion (where Sly must in some way call on Arnie's political muscle for the benefit of his mission) while watching a DVD of THE TERMINATOR in which a young Stallone has been digitally added as the Terminator that's seen in a sequence set in the future.... well, that would surely be one of the coolest, geekiest things of all time!

[marktmurphy]

Do I take it from the AICN bloke's hinting that his 'source' is just Stallone himself?

[dodge]

Do I take it from the AICN bloke's hinting that his 'source' is just Stallone himself?

Naw, that would be too...sly for even Stallone.

[Loomis]

Do I take it from the AICN bloke's hinting that his 'source' is just Stallone himself?

Probably. Knowles and Stallone are buddies, as I gather.

[dinovelvet]

At the Independent spirit awards, Mickey Rourke declared that "Eric Roberts is the in' man" and said that he deserved a comeback role. So obviously The Expendables will be it!

[dodge]

ETA: He seems to have really slimmed down from RAMBO (in which he looks to be the size of three brick outhouses plus one brick house) and even ROCKY BALBOA. He's evidently been doing cardio like a bastard.

I suspect he's been "doing" something else to get in this kind of shape. Know what I mean, eh?

I'm not sure I do know. Do you mean, like, having lots of sex?

[dinovelvet]

Rather disappointingly, Mickey Rourke reveals in this Woss interview that he will only be filming one day for The Expendables, so expect little more than a cameo. Still, a little Mick is better than no Mick, eh?

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

[Harmsway]

Rather disappointingly, Mickey Rourke reveals in this Woss interview that he will only be filming one day for The Expendables, so expect little more than a cameo. Still, a little Mick is better than no Mick, eh?

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

Shame.

[Vauxhall]

Certainly is a shame.

Fantastic interview with Jonathan Ross though. All Rourke fans should check it out.

[JimmyBond]

OLD SCHOOL ROCKS!

Stallone and Arnold? Ohhh yeah! Commando and Rambo kick A** baby!

You know how geeked out I would get if Arnold got to shout "Get in da choppa!" in the film? That would be pure bliss.

[Zorin Industries]

I couldn't care any less for this one, as no doubt will the critics and the audiences when it comes out.

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but getting Stallone onscreen in anything gets me slightly interested. At least he's got a presence. At least he has some movie star charisma.

But Schwarzenegger....? Can someone tell me why it is good news that a homophobic, bigotted, meddling and talentless ex movie star should ever be allowed near a set again...? Oh yeah, I know - he's no longer allowed to be Governor and make his money damning vast swathes of the human populice in order to court votes and some sort of legacy. Would a rich Californian be allowed to run for office in Austria? I very much doubt it. And I very much doubt Arnold Schwarzenegger's credibility to deliver in a new film, especially when you consider the utter rot he tried to ring out of his ailing career before "politics" took his attention (which can't be hard to do quite frankly).

[dodge]

At the Independent spirit awards, Mickey Rourke declared that "Eric Roberts is the in' man" and said that he deserved a comeback role. So obviously The Expendables will be it!

Well said. And anyone having any doubts that Roberts has the chops should check out his work in "It's My Party"--the heartbreaking tale of a doomed gay who decides to check out with a blast--or a nifty little horror film called "The Ambulance".

[dodge]

I couldn't care any less for this one, as no doubt will the critics and the audiences when it comes out.

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but getting Stallone onscreen in anything gets me slightly interested. At least he's got a presence. At least he has some movie star charisma.

But Schwarzenegger....? Can someone tell me why it is good news that a homophobic, bigotted, meddling and talentless ex movie star should ever be allowed near a set again...? Oh yeah, I know - he's no longer allowed to be Governor and make his money damning vast swathes of the human populice in order to court votes and some sort of legacy. Would a rich Californian be allowed to run for office in Austria? I very much doubt it. And I very much doubt Arnold Schwarzenegger's credibility to deliver in a new film, especially when you consider the utter rot he tried to ring out of his ailing career before "politics" took his attention (which can't be hard to do quite frankly).

And yet we almost never hear of straight-hating, bigoted gays.

[Zorin Industries]

I couldn't care any less for this one, as no doubt will the critics and the audiences when it comes out.

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but getting Stallone onscreen in anything gets me slightly interested. At least he's got a presence. At least he has some movie star charisma.

But Schwarzenegger....? Can someone tell me why it is good news that a homophobic, bigotted, meddling and talentless ex movie star should ever be allowed near a set again...? Oh yeah, I know - he's no longer allowed to be Governor and make his money damning vast swathes of the human populice in order to court votes and some sort of legacy. Would a rich Californian be allowed to run for office in Austria? I very much doubt it. And I very much doubt Arnold Schwarzenegger's credibility to deliver in a new film, especially when you consider the utter rot he tried to ring out of his ailing career before "politics" took his attention (which can't be hard to do quite frankly).

And yet we almost never hear of straight-hating, bigoted gays.

Well they tend not to be the ones passing Draconian, hateful laws like the Anita Bryant-inspired Prop 8 which Schwarzenegger (as an ex Hollywood player whose career was no doubt forged and maintained by the efforts of some gay people) put his full naive and bigoted might behind.

[marktmurphy]

Trying to start an argument much? I think you should put some more effort in and just say that everyone else in the world is an idiot or something like that.

[Zorin Industries]

Trying to start an argument much? I think you should put some more effort in and just say that everyone else in the world is an idiot or something like that.

Not at all.

I just thought and hoped that cinema had seen the last of Arnold Schwarzenegger and this news about this new film fills me with nothing but bored dread. And as the man has helped promote and further an extremely hateful anti-gay law (and one which Hollywood has sat up and noticed) in recent times and now appears to think it's okay to jump onto a movie set as if no-one has noticed, then there is indeed something worth mentioning here. Unless of course Schwarzenegger has banned free speech as well as free marriage....

[Agent 76]

I think Michael Jackson is a freak, but I still continue to like his music. Who cares about the actor's opinions and personal life. This is about entertainment...

[Zorin Industries]

Who cares about the actor's opinions and personal life.

I do. And this is not merely his "opinions" and "personal life". This is about people's liberty and freedoms.

And as the "entertainment" industry is one of the largest victims of Governor Schwarzanegger's Republican homophobic laws then it is all very relevant.

[Vauxhall]

Confirmed.

Arnie to play himself in Sly film

[Agent 76]

Kurt Russell would be a cool addition to the cast.

[dinovelvet]

Confirmed.

Arnie to play himself in Sly film

As crazy as this sounds...I think I'll wait for "official" confirmation from, er, Ain't it cool news regarding Ahnuld's involvement.

Kurt Russell would be a cool addition to the cast.

Yeah probably, and coincidentally he only got the job in Tarantino's Death proof after messrs. Stallone and Rourke turned him down.

Interestingly, the imdb lists Randy Couture as playing the Token Black Character named "Hale Caesar", and also has David Zayas as the villain of the piece, General Garza. Although I was hoping for Robert Davi, Zayas is good in his tv roles on Dexter, and especially Oz.

[dodge]

As the casting, more and more, becomes the main item of interest, I wonder if Sly is finding himself forced to rewrite the script by the day to make room. I can now picture Seagal and JCVD half-beating each other to death for the chance to be with this illustrious gang. Who wouldn't kill to stand on screen with them, especially if The Guv's there too?

[dodge]

For you Eric Roberts fans:

"I don't know why, for the last 15 years, ain't nobody give him the chance to show his (stuff) again," Rourke said. "Whatever he did 15, 20 years ago should be forgiven."

Actually, more than a few filmmakers have provided Roberts that chance. One is Sylvester Stallone, who hired him for a role in the action flick The Expendables, expected to begin shooting next month. Roberts has no fewer than a dozen projects in the can, in pre- or post-production or currently filming.

Just because most of them will go straight to DVD or overseas doesn't matter. Rourke should keep up with his buddy's career better.

I recently caught Roberts on DVD in The Steam Experiment, one of the centerpiece films of this year's Gasparilla International Film Festival, opening tonight. Roberts plays one of six people locked inside a steam room by a madman (Val Kilmer, who could also use a Rourke shoutout) to bring attention to his concerns about global warming. If the local newspaper won't print his manifesto, he'll let the prisoners die, with melted lungs and cauterized eyes. Armand Assante co-stars as the detective prying information out of Kilmer.

Directed by Philippe Martinez, whose Bauer-Martinez Studios has offices in Largo, The Steam Experiment has some things going for it (Kilmer and Assante's shrewd cat-and-mouse exchanges) and some against it (the prisoners, except for Roberts, are given too much screen time, convincing us their mouths should also be cauterized). But it's worth a look."

THE STEAM EXPERIMENT sounds worth a look, imo.