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Last August, writer-director-actor Sylvester Stallone stuffed enough current and former action stars into The Expendables to win audiences over and earn $274 million worldwide. Stallone instantly started talking about a sequel, using his Twitter to declare he wanted Bruce Willis back as a "supervillain" in the movie.
While we're not entirely sure of his intentions, Willis is back for The Expendables 2, along with fellow Expendables scene partner Arnold Schwarzenegger, with both actors having a more "substantial" role in the sequel, which has an even more expanded cast than the original. Strangely, details on the sequel have been scarce — a plot synopsis was revealed in May and involved the Expendables avenging the death of Mickey Rourke's character Tool, but was quickly dismissed. Fortunately, along with the teaser trailer comes a synopsis as well.
The Expendables are back and this time it's personal... Barney Ross (Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) — with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan) aboard — are reunited when Mr. Church (Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong and one of their own is viciously killed, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory where the odds are stacked against them. Hell-bent on payback, the crew cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces, wreaking havoc and shutting down an unexpected threat in the nick of time — six pounds of weapons-grade plutonium; enough to change the balance of power in the world. But that's nothing compared to the justice they serve against the villainous adversary who savagely murdered their brother. That is done the Expendables way.
watch the trailer >> Posted 12.15.11 by Ryan -
While there is still no official photos, trailers, or posters for the upcoming sequel The Expendables 2, there is still plenty to enjoy in the "unofficial" category. Earlier this month, set photos from the Bulgaria-located production surfaced online, featuring cast members Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, as well as Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris. This was less than a month after Arnold Schwarzenegger Tweeted a photo of himself with Stallone and Bruce Willis.
The latest unofficial promotional item from The Expendables 2 (or EX2) as displayed is a new, unofficial poster, released by JoBlo, which attempts to feature the sizeable cast, along with their weapons, all onto one poster. Squeezed into the frame are Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Willis, Jason Statham, Norris, Lundgren, Crews and Van Damme, while Jet Li, Randy Couture and Liam Hemsworth are nowhere to be found. We're not sure who the uncredited actress is in the poster, though, if IMDb is correct, it's probably Nan Yu.
where's Li? >> Posted 11.22.11 by Ryan -
Lionsgate is employing a decidedly different marketing strategy of late for Sylvester Stallone's testosterone-fueled ode to he-man movies of the 80s, The Expendables. New clips from the movie are more about character building than action. The latest new clip is no exception, as bad-ass martial arts expert Yin Yang (Jet Li) laments to Barney "The Schizo" Ross (Stallone) the disadvantages of being small, a trait that Ross humorously uses to his advantage when they are attacked mid-conversation.
Watch the "small" clip after the jump >> Posted 07.30.10 by BrentJS -
August 13 marks an unusual struggle between two movies at the cinematic box office. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and The Expendables will vie for box office dominance. In the first corner, Jason Statham, Jet Li, and Dolph Lundgren are a few of the cavalcade of stars that will pound their way through Sylvester Stallone's 80s-style action homage that is The Expendables. And in corner two, comic book adaptation, Scott Pilgrim, has Michael Cera fighting seven "evil" boyfriends to win the heart of Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Round One saw Scott Pilgrim smack down The Expendables in the battle of the promotional posters. Round Two focuses on the latest crop of promotional material for both movies.
who has won round 2? >> Posted 05.27.10 by Ryan -
For those of you who can't get enough martial arts action-adventure movies, we have the first trailer for Jet Li's latest offering, The Warlords. The 2007 movie, currently available on Blu-ray, will be in American theaters this coming April.
Set in the midst of war and political upheaval during the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s, the movie has Li as General Pang, who barely survives a brutal massacre of his fellow soldiers by playing dead and then joins a band of bandits led by Er Hu (Andy Lau) and Wu Yang (Takeshi Kaneshiro).
Posted 12.29.09 by reelz -
A trailer for The Expendables briefly appeared online. In it, Sylvester Stallone teams up with a set of action movie all-stars, including Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Steve Austin, ,Terry Crews, and Randy Couture, as they head out to overthrow a South American dictator. It should be no surprise that Stallone is also directing the movie himself, from his own script.
Sadly, the cameos from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis didn't make it into the trailer.
Posted 10.14.09 by Ryan