Casting blunder on Stallone’s The Expendables

Posted on March 24, 2009
Filed Under Actors, Directors, News, TV show

OK, I would like to remind everyone that I don’t create the news – I just report ‘em… With that being said I feel almost obliged to offer my apologies to you, my readers. Sometimes the movie industry is a very unreliable source of information. I’m’ of course talking about the casting blunder of the year… Dark Horizons reports that the role of Agent Will Sands in Sylvester Stallone’s upcoming action film “The Expendables” has been recast yet again.

A few days ago came word that due to a scheduling conflict, originally set star and Oscar winner Forest Whitaker had to bow out of playing the character who sends our group of mercenary protagonists on their mission. The role was then recast with rapper 50 Cent which caused a wave of online backlash. Now it seems thankfully 50 Cent isn’t any longer involved either.

Instead actor Terry Crews will be taking over the character. Though no Whitaker, Crews is a step up and has delivered some solid work lately in a variety of films like “Balls of Fury,” “Street Kings,” “Norbit,” “Get Smart” and TV’s “Everybody Hates Chris“.

He’ll appear in both “Terminator Salvation” and “Game” later this year.

I really, really hope this is the last we hear about casting issues in Stallone’s “The Expendables”. Especially concerning the role of “Agent Will Sands”…

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