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The Expendables 2

(2010-2011)

 

filming


plot summary (subject to change!)

Stallone, Statham, Rourke, Lundgren, Couture and Crews return as hard-edged but noble mercenaries in the second installment of Sylvester Stallone's old-school action thriller, The Expendables.

As payback for taking out the corrupt CIA agent Monroe (Eric Roberts) in the first Expendables, cagey Agent Church (Bruce Willis) forces the Expendables to do an "easy mission": retrieve a missing CIA package from Gazak, a civil war torn country in Easter Europe.

The easy mission turns deadly when the Expendables are ambushed by a team of ruthless rival mercs, the Sangunaires, competing to get the same package. Tool (Mickey Rourke), the heart and souleof the Expendables, is brutally murdered by Vilain, the leader of the bloodthirsty guns for hire. Still, the Expendables manage to pull of the mission and return with the CIA package, but it's a hollow victory.

As their thoughts turn from grief to revenge, Tool's beautiful young daughter Fiona shows up. Cut from the same stone as her dad, she wants to join the Expendables when they hunt down Vilain and his men. Barney (Stallone) promises her the Expendables will avenge Tool's death, but will not risk putting his best friend's daughter in harm's way.

Fiona, who is young and wile, embarks on her own revenge mission, complicating matters for Barney when she is captured and ransomed by VIlain. Now Barney and the expendables must risk everything to save her, kidnapping CIA Agent Church and pulling off a daring heist of the CIA package they were hired to bring back.

When Agent Church reveals why the CIA package is so valuable to Vilain, the stakes go up even higher. Inside the package are canisters of radioactive cesium which Vilain has been tasked with releasing on the people's uprising that threatens the thirty year rule of Gazak's vicious dictator, President Dogot.

The Expendables, along with Agent Church, are now faced with an impossible mission: rescue Fiona, foil a dictator's vicious plot to kill scores of innocent people, and avenge the death of one of their own.

director/cast
 
Simon West Director
Sylvester Stallone Barney Ross
Jason Statham Lee Christmas
Mikey Rourke Tool
Dolph Lundgren Gunnar Jensen
Jean-Claude Van Damme TBA
Chuck Norris TBA
Arnold Schwarzenegger Trench
Bruce Willis Church
Nicolas Cage TBA
John Travolta TBA
Terry Crews Hale Caezar
Randy Couture Toll Road

genre Action / Adventure
budget $90 million (US)
production co(s) Nu Image / Millennium Films
location(s) Bulgaria, Russia, France, China
producers Avi Lerner / John Thompson / Kevin King Templeton
writers David Agosto / Ken Kaufman

web links
Internet Movie Database
Nu Image / Millennium Films - production company

news & updates

In 2008, writers Ken Kaufman and David Agosto had sold an action-comedy pitch to MGM (for $1 million) entitled 'Wardogs', pitched as "an action ensemble comedy in the vein of 'Ocean's Eleven,' where the casting becomes an event." It's very likely that TE2 will be a rewrite of this project script.

June 15, 2011

Simon West (Con Air, The Mechanic) is announced as the director.

May 11, 2011

Nu Image / Millennium Films unleash teaser posters at Cannes to pre-sale the picture.

November 10, 2010

"I do have that film I want to direct and also Expendables 2. They're about to set that schedule." Dolph Lundgren

MILLENNIUM FILMS presents a NU IMAGE production a SIMON WEST film SYLVESTER STALLONE JASON STATHAM JET LI MICKEY ROURKE DOLPH LUNDGREN "THE EXPENDABLES 2" JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME CHUCK NORRIS BRUCE WILLIS ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER RANDY COUTURE TERRY CREWS casting MARIANA STANISHEVA music by BRIAN TYLER production designer PAUL CROSS director of photography SHELLY JOHNSON line producer MATTHEW O'TOOLE executive producers BOAZ DAVIDSON DANNY DIMBORT TREVOR SHORT LES WELDON ROBERT EARL GUYMON CASADY JASON CONSTANTINE JON FELTHEIMER produced by AVI LERNER JOHN THOMPSON KEVIN KING TEMPLETON BASIL IWANYK written by DAVID AGOSTO & KEN KAUFMAN directed by SIMON WEST

projects links
Action In The Red Sea / Alien Agent / The Amber Room / Beowulf / Brazilian project / Captured / Code Blue / The Controller / Cover Up 2 / Dark Angel 2 / Double Or Nothing / Duke Nukem / The Expendables 2 / Frogs For Snakes / Gentle Giant / Inside Man Out / Interstate 10 / It Waits / Ivory City / Le Tigre / Legion (I) / Legion (II)/ Masters Of The Universe 2 / Meltdown / Nightclubbing / The Peacekeeper 2 / Pit Bulls / The Punisher 2 / R.P.M. / Red Dawn / Red Scorpion 2 / Revenge / Rewind / Rocky VI / Running Man / The Soul Of Caleb Lee / Starlight Murders / Still The Drums / Straight Blast / The Threat / Tokyo Suckerpunch / Trooper / Tumbling Dice / Unknown Project / Vampires / Venom / Wanted Man / Warrant / The Watchmen / Swedish Projects /

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