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Rourke from 'Wrestler' to Stallone's 'Expendables'

This one is shaping up quite nicely

BY: Brad Brevet | January 6th 2009 at 11:10 PM

This new film from Sylvester Stallone sure is shaping up to be one hell of a curiosity as Variety has now announced Mickey Rourke has joined the cast of The Expendables, the new action adventure Stallone wrote and will be directing in March in Brazil.

Rourke is the latest of names to join the ensemble cast which now includes Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Randy Couture and Dolph Lungdren with Forest Whitaker and Ben Kingsley also rumored to be aboard.

The main characters in the film (Stallone, Statham and Li) 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. Filming is expected to begin in February in Costa Rica and Louisiana. Rourke will play an unscrupulous arms dealer who becomes the go-to guy for a group of mercenaries planning to topple a South American dictator.

Sounds to me like it could be a lot of fun.


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as much as I like Rourke, this movie sounds awful.

- adu
( January 6th, 2009 | 11:20 pm )
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@adu:

how can you hate on this movie already? it doesn't sound awful, it just sounds like it's trying to be a fun action flick. it's not like stallone is trying to win an oscar here buddy. ease up a bit.

- Roger
( January 7th, 2009 | 7:47 am )
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the idea of this movie takes me back to those good 'ol early 90's, saturday afternoon TV matinees of syndicated Van Damme, Segal, Norris, Lungdren action shit I used to watch when playing with my steroid-out power of the force star wars figures. Idle hands are definitely the devil's playground…

- izzy
( January 7th, 2009 | 4:42 pm )
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@Roger:
yeah I know what you mean man, I just get 'bad movie' vibes from it. I would love to be proved wrong. That is just how I feel as of now. No harm in that I suppose.

- adu
( January 7th, 2009 | 6:36 pm )
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@adu:

Good stuff dude. We'll meet back on the boards after we see the movie! haha

- Roger
( January 8th, 2009 | 8:53 am )
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