Stallone, Statham and Jet Li are mercenaries

Posted on November 6, 2008
Filed Under Actors, News

Ready for some adrenaline pumpin’ action news? Today is your lucky day my friends. I’m not giving you one action star. Nope. Not two either. I’m giving you three action stars in one movie! You heard me – three! I guess sometimes you just have to bring in the big numbers to satisfy the crowd. Anyway, The Hollywood Reporter tells us that Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham and Jet Li is in final negotiations, as a team of mercenaries in the movie “The Expendables.”

The film will be directed by Stallone from his original screenplay, the first project in his two-picture deal with the studio. The second is expected to be the next installment of his popular “Rambo” series.

In “The Expendables,” the main characters are sent to infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator to liberate the population. Their team is “expendable,” hired to do jobs that no one else can or will.

Principal photography will begin in February in Costa Rica and Louisiana.

“Making films with Nu Image/Millennium gives me as the director the opportunity to make the films I envision,” Stallone said. “I am happy to be partnering with them again and am looking forward to working with Jason and Jet.”

Nice little trio, huh? It’ll be sweet action!

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