Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Bruce Willis Confirms Role in The Expendables (aka The Greatest Film Ever)


From slashfilm, Back in June, Moviehole published a rumor that Bruce Willis had joined the already packed action star-heavy cast of Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables.

At the time it was unknown if Willis would find the time to shoot the scene, as he was knee deep in the Kevin Smith buddy cop comedy A Couple of Dicks. Sly’s publicist responded to the speculation, noting that some people “have it right” but that she “can’t release the name until the deal is absolutely finalized. I’m not trying to tease you, but you won’t be disappointed..at least most of you won’t.” And now we finally have a confirmation, from the man himself.

Willis tells MTV that he hasn’t filmed the scene yet, and that he’s still “waiting for a call from Sly about when we’re going to try and make that happen.” And while he has yet to read any script pages, Willis was able to confirm that the cameo appearance involves sharing the screen with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Stallone.

Bruce will play Mr Church, the man who hires the Expendables, a highly-trained team of deadly combat mercenaries, to go on a mission to South America to overthrow and execute a villainous dictator. Interestingly enough, the role of Church was originally offered to Schwarzenegger, who declined in favor of a smaller cameo part due to political concerns. Schwarzenegger will now play a retired Lieutenant General of the Expendables.

2 comments:

Octopunk said...

Besides Jason Statham (who's in his mid 30's), are there any new actors rising to fill the action-guy niche all these old dudes carved?

Because while this movie intrigues me (despite having been written by Stallone), when I look at the cast list I can't help think of how old these guys are.

Marky Mark, I guess. Matt Damon. But I mean guys who only do action flicks.

JPX said...

Stallone wrote Rocky!

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