Sylvester Stallone has been making some additions to the cast of his up and coming film The Expendables. Actor and WWE alum, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and horror actress Charisma Carpenter have been added to the lineup of an already all-star cast including Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Forest Whitaker, Mickey Rourke, Danny Trejo and Eric Roberts.
On the one hand, we got Stallone...who pretty much peaked as a writer with Rocky...35 years ago. As an actor, he still can be kind of fun when he pokes fun at himself, but how often does he do that? As a director, well...he's probably more accomplished at it than I am...
Then the cast. Jason Statham is in a lot of crap movies. So is Jet Li, though it hasn't seemed to have hurt his fame any (I think it's the name). Same goes for Danny Trejo.
Dolph Lundgren, of course, simply never peaked at all. I've never heard of this Randy Couture fellow (apparently he, like “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, is a wrestler of some reknown).
On the other hand, I maintain that Charisma Carpenter is capable of creating a well-layered character...when she's given good scripts, which this may or may not be.
Forest Whitaker is an acclaimed, Academy Award-winning actor. Mickey Rourke just rose back to the top.
Eric Roberts is coming off of a big hit with The Dark Knight, as well as having been in Heroes on television...so he might finally be shaking off that whole "brother of Julia/father of Emma" thing.
Place your bets...
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