![]() The good news is that a ton of new folks came to play, including Mel Gibson as the baddie and supporting turns from Harrison Ford, Wesley Snipes, Antonio Banderas and noted action superstar Kelsey Grammer. The film earned $85 million domestic but $314m worldwide, so we got The Expendables 3 in August 2014. Although it was less of a real movie than Stallone’s first meditative action drama, which was something of a “Yes, we can!” answer to Stallone’s self-critical Rambo. It was bigger, more explosive and more of what fans wanted the first time around. Stallone stepped out of the director’s chair for Simon West and this time Schwarzenegger and Willis came to play along with Jean-Claude Van Damme as a movie-stealing villain and a flashy Chuck Norris cameo. We got The Expendables 2 two summers later, also courtesy of Lionsgate. The film was still a success, with a $35 million debut, $103m domestic gross and $274m worldwide total. Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li and the likes of Terry Crews and Randy Corture filled out the team with Steve Austin working for the bad guys. But while Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis cameoed, the first film was mostly just Stallone, Jason Statham, and whoever would say yes. As you probably know, The Expendables, released in the summer of 2010 by Lionsgate, was the long-gestating dream project teaming Sylvester Stallone and a number of his action contemporaries in an old-school Cannon Films-style carnage-fest. ![]()
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