Schwarzenegger in Expendables!
If you thought the cast of Sylvester Stallone’s upcoming testosterone epic was incredible before… well, it just got even better! According to AICN, Arnold Schwarzenegger will be making a cameo appearance in THE EXPENDABLES! Yes folks, I never thought I’d see the day when Arnold and Sly would be in the same movie… but today is that day!
Schwarzenegger will be playing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film. I know, it’s a stretch. But this Gov. Schwarzenegger has ties to Stallone’s Barney Ross character… which means Schwarzenegger and Stallone will likely be on the screen at the same time! F*ck me in the goat ass, this is the coolest news ever!!!
Other EXPENDABLES news includes the casting of Sir Ben Kingsley, Eric Robers, Danny Trejo, and Mickey Rourke has ‘officially’ signed on to star. They now join the cast that currently features Stallone, Forest Whitaker, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Randy Couture, and Dolph Lungdren.
Right about now Jean-Claude Van-Damme is roundhouse kicking himself for not signing on to star in this flick…
Writers talk KICK-ASS
Comic book writer Mark Millar, who blew us away with last summer’s WANTED, is gearing up to bring his KICK-ASS comic to the big screen, with LAYER CAKE director Matthew Vaughn at the helm. They recently chatted it up with UK’s Tripwire, and had this to say about the upcoming project’s level of gore and violence:
The nice thing about Western audiences is that they’re so fucked up and actually really get off on violence and freak out at sexuality so I think in that regard we won’t have any problems. Heads getting cut off, I don’t think anybody will care. If anything it’ll just be perceived as cool.
Cool? Hell yeah it’s gonna be cool… it’s gonna kick ass! Starring Nic Cage, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, and Aaron Johnson, KICK-ASS details the adventures of a geeky teenager who one day decides to become a superhero… even though he has absolutely no super abilities. But he f*cks shit up nevertheless, so it’s all good in my book!
To check out all the goodies of the interview, click HERE. KICK-ASS will presumably hit theaters next spring.
No Riggs in next LETHAL WEAPON
MTV had a chance to chat with Martin Riggs (aka Mel Gibson) about the possiblity of a LETHAL WEAPON 5, and as far as Gibson’s concerned… it’ll never happen, at least, not with Riggs.
I couldn’t imagine going back there to try to revive that one. I think we got everything we could out of it. Of course these things always come around. Five though? Five?!? Please.
For once, someone in Hollywood is saying ‘no’ to ridiculous sequels. Well, almost everyone. Apparently producer Joel Silver has hired original WEAPON writer Shane Black to write and direct the 5th installment, but without Gibson back as Riggs, I highly doubt Danny Glover will be back as Murtaugh, which means no f*cking movie. Unless, of course, they remake it…
For more on Gibson and his distaste for anything ending in 5, click HERE.
INGLORIOUS Posters!
Quentin Tarantino’s Nazi-killing epic INGLORIOUS BASTERDS is heating up something fierce this week, as two (yes, two) new posters have been released for the film.
The above poster is the North American teaser poster, which has the name… and that’s about it. Pretty damn boring, if you ask me. I mean, yeah, it’s cool, it’s just… boring.
The other poster, courtesy of IGN is a little more badass, featuring the butt of a rifle and the scribbled inscription of INGLORIOUS BASTERDS. Very cool.
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