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The Expendables

Release Date: August 13, 2010

January 7, 2009
Mickey Rourke joins ensemble action adventure

While Forest Whitaker continues to eye Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables, Mickey Rourke nabbed an arms dealer role in the action adventure for Nu Image/Millenium Films. Rourke's character becomes the go-to guy for a mercenary group, who plans to take down a dictator in South America.
Source: Variety





January 5, 2009
Forest Whitaker may join Stallone in South America

Forest Whitaker is in talks to join the cast of Sylvester Stallone's action movie, The Expendables. If signed, the actor would play the CIA liaison for a group of mercenaries (played by Stallone, Jet Li, Randy Couture and Jason Statham) who are sent to South America to overthrow a dictator.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter





November 6, 2008
Sylvester Stallone writes, directs and stars in actioner

Sylvester Stallone will star in The Expendables, a project he also wrote and will direct. The story is about a team of mercenaries on a mission to take down a South American dictator. Jason Statham will also appear, and Jet Li is in final talks to join the actioner.
Source: Variety

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