Onlangs zagen we nog de Bootleg trailer van The Expendables voorbijkomen. Helaas is er nog steeds geen betere versie van beschikbaar, maar gelukkig kunnen we wel wat meer vertellen over de film. Empire heeft namelijk gesproken met Sylvester Stallone en hij heeft een aantal nieuwtjes voor ons. Eerst een nieuwe foto uit de film, met de onoverwinnelijke Sly in het middelpunt:

Over de titel The Expendables vertelt "The Italian Stallion" dat deze afkomstig is uit een scene uit Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985):

"It's from Rambo 2. The girl I'm falling in love with says, “Why do you do what you do?” I say, “I'm expendable.” She says, “What does that mean?” I say, “It's like someone invites you to a party and you don't show up. It doesn't really matter.” And these men, they live a life that... They're expendable. If they're gone, the world will go on. No one will miss them, They don't have families, all they have is each other. They're expendable to the rest of the world, but they're not expendable to each other – they're just necessary. So it's a real brotherhood. I think it has a lot of heart for an action film."

En over de opzet van de film vertelt hij dat hij een ouderwetse "mano a mano" actiefilm wil maken die rechtstreeks uit de jaren '80 en '90 komt zonder (veel) CGI:

"What I wanted to do was just try to do something that is a little different. Today, technically, we're incredibly gifted and versatile with CGI, and I wanted to do a film that was more about men, doing things that we did back in the 80s and 90s that were a little more mano a mano – actual, physical stunts. It's also a story that isn't super-gigantic; it's almost a believable story. And the thing was to find certain personalities that never would have worked together normally and put them all together. It's like the dream team. It just hasn't been done. I guess it's kinda like The Dirty Dozen, or one of those films that comes along every once in a while – like The Magnificent Seven – to try to take that old formula and move it into a modern era. We accomplished it; I'm very, very happy with the film."

The Expendables komt op 20 augustus 2010 in de VS uit. Even later vast ook in Nederland.