MOVIE NEWS: Sylvester Stallone Leads Expendables

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Sylvester Stallone has teamed up with Nu Image/Millennium films with a deal to write, star in and direct their latest action movie offering, “The Expendables” about a team of mercenaries on a mission to overthrow a South American dictator.

Stallone will also be weighing in on this film with two other heavy hitting action stars as  Jason Statham co-stars and Jet Li is in final negotiations to join the action film.

Filming on The Expendables starts in February 2009 in Costa Rica and Louisiana with a late 2009 release date tentatively set for the movie.

Updated: November 8, 2008 — 10:42 pm