The Expendables are back and this time it's personal! After Tool (Mickey Rourke), the heart and soul of the Expendables, is brutally murdered on a mission, his comrades swear to avenge him. They're not the only ones who want blood. Tool’s beautiful young and wild daughter Fiona embarks on her own revenge mission, complicating matters when she is captured and ransomed by a ruthless dictator plotting to destroy a resistance movement. Now Barney and the Expendables must risk everything to save her and humanity.
...e Van Damme parece estar já confirmado!
Ora bem, eu fui um dos muitos que gostou do primeiro filme. Era uma genuína homenagem aos filmes de acção chunga dos anos 80, e não abdicava ele mesmo de ser chunga, mas mais bem feito. A questão que coloco a mim mesmo é se terei realmente "fome" de outro filme nestes moldes. É que a sinopse não me seduz e só me faz pensar que a Nu Image quer passar a ser a Cannon Films do novo século. Sim, já sei que vou encontrar cenas de acção bem feitas e umas piadas porreiras para ajudar à pipoca, mas agora que o factor surpresa se esgotou exige-se um pouco mais do que isso. Ainda assim, espero com expectativa.Jean-Claude Van Damme’s frequent collaborator (and good friend) Sheldon Lettich has made it known in the past that the aging martial arts star is interested in joining the followup to Sylvester Stallone’s testosterone-fueled 80s-throwback action pic, The Expendables 2.
Now Lettich is saying that not only is “The Muscles From Brussels” prepped to join the Expendables sequel, he’ll actually be playing one of the villains in next year’s hard-hitting followup.
Lettich dropped the news about Van Damme being one of the bad guys in Expendables 2 over on the Van Damme Fans forums – where he’s known for hanging out. Bruce Willis is also prepped to reprise his villainous CIA agent act for the Expendables followup – which means we could get to see a TimeCop and John McClane tag-team face-off against Rambo and The Transporter (among others) in the sequel. How’s that for an ultimate showdown?
On a more serious note: Van Damme was originally approached by Stallone to appear in the first Expendables flick, but turned the offer down as he did not consider the role to be properly fleshed out and developed. So either Expendables 2 screenwriters David Agosto and Ken Kaufman (Space Cowboys) have crafted a more substantial (villainous) character for Van Damme to (metaphorically) tackle - or the star decided he doesn’t want to miss out on the party this second time around, so to speak.