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The Expendabelles is an upcoming action film directed by Robert Lebovic and is a spin-off to the The Expendables.
Production
In August 2012, producer Adi Shankar's production company, 1984 Private Defense Contractors, hired screenwriter Dutch Southern to write an all-female action film. It was also reported that the film, inspired by The Expendables franchise, will be fully financed by 1984 Private Defense Contractors and that the company has already began talks with several prominent female action stars.[2]
In September 2012, actress and former MMA fighter Gina Carano signed on to lead the all-female ensemble. Shankar said, "I don't know how I'm supposed to make a movie that is supposed to be the female version of The Expendables without Gina Carano in it. It would be like making Twix without caramel or Jamba Juice without jamba".[3]
In October 2012, Katee Sackhoff, best known for her role as Kara Thrace on the television series Battlestar Galactica, joined the project. Shankar said, "If you spend five minutes with Katee it becomes blatantly obvious that she would pwn [sic] most male action stars".[11] Also in October, Millennium Films, the studio behind The Expendables, announced plans for their own take on all-female version of the film titled The ExpendaBelles.[4]
In August 2013, Sharni Vinson, who played the lead in the 2013 horror film, You're Next, joined the cast.[5]
Filming may start in early 2014, with shooting to take place in Bulgaria's Boyana cinema center.[6]
Plot
When America's Navy SEALs are wiped out trying to penetrate the island lair of a deadly despot who has captured one of the world's top nuclear scientists, it becomes clear that there is no such thing as the right man for the job and that this is a mission so impossible that only women can handle it. The only way in: some of the world's deadliest female operatives must pose as high-class call-girls shipped in by private plane to satisfy a dictator-and instead save the scientist and the day.[7]
Cast
- Sigourney Weaver as TBA [8]
- Gina Carano as TBA
- Sharni Vinson as TBA
- Ronda Rousey as Luna (Linked to a role)[9]
- Katee Sackhoff as TBA (Linked to a role)[10]
- Meryl Streep as TBA (Linked to a role)[11]
- Cameron Diaz as TBA[12]
- Milla Jovovich as TBA (Linked to a role)[13]
- Zoe Bell as TBA[14]
- Kate Beckinsale as TBA (Linked to a role)[15]
- Kristen Stewart as TBA (Rumored)[16]
- Michelle Yeoh as TBA (Rumored)[17]
- Chloe Grace-Mortez as TBA (Rumored)[18]
- Charlize Theron as TBA (Rumored)[19]
- Alan Rickman as TBA (Rumored)[20]
- Salma Hayek as TBA[21]
- Anna Faris as TBA (Rumored)[22]
- Diane Keaton as TBA[23]
- Jennifer Garner as TBA (Linked to a role)[24]
- Jesse Eisenberg as TBA[25]
- Michelle Rodriguez as TBA[26]
- Sandra Bullock as TBA (Linked to a role)[27]
- Halle Berry as TBA (Linked to a role)[28]
- Carrie-Anne Moss as TBA (Linked to a role)[29]
- Geena Davis as TBA (Linked to a role)[30]
- Rhona Mitra as TBA (Rumored)[31]
Speculation
- The script may go on like this: We begin with a top secret mission, which almost immediately goes to shit thanks to the evil bad guy (called Sultan in the script) and his secret weapon…an army of sharks. A group of highly trained Navy SEALs are eaten within a couple minutes by a bunch of sharks. They may kill a few ethnic stereotypes here and there, but they’re essentially eaten by sharks. One extraneous detail, the leader of this mission, our lead Navy SEAL, is nicknamed Honey Boo Boo by his troops. Honey Boo Boo is unceremoniously killed by being beaten to death offscreen, without warning. Barney Ross and Max Drummer discuss about the Sultan, Barney decides to send in the Expendabelles, because the Sultan is a pervert. The plan is established with Stallone talking to Lead Expendabelle dressed as a limo driver. Sultan has kidnapped some guy who can make uranium for cheap. He wants to sell to other bad guys so they can make nukes. Lead Expendabelle has one thing separating her from the others: she’s done with the mercenary life, and just wants to live like an ordinary person. They go in to take out transquilized hookers to replace them, while two members of the Expendables trap the hookers on a remote beach and dress up like the Sultan and his bodyguard in order to seduce them. We now cut to a party scene, where every single man in the room immediately attempts to seduce the Expendabelles, and they create increasingly elaborate ways to avoid their advances. They have one of them strip for Sultan, distracting him so the rest can move. Lead Expendabelle thinks that a crocodile is the hostage they’ve been looking for this whole time. Our Lead Expendabelle is overdosed on insulin, while another one is whisked away to immediately have sex with Sultan. Or she would, if the Sultan actually just wanted to sing karaoke with someone, and was afraid of being rejected and judged by his underlings. So he finds hookers instead to sing with. He even has a duet with one of the Expendabelles. This was actually pretty cleverly done, setting him up as a total pervert and then completely reversing the character. A pretty standard stealthy action scene follows, with each Expendabelle taking out guards in rather whimsical fashions, ranging from distraction to simply shooting the bad guys. They discover their hostage, who turns out to have developed Stockholm syndrome, and is now with the bad guys. They then kidnap him and try to drag him out of the place, fighting guards the whole way. During this extended chase sequence, Suburban Mother gets a call from her stay-at-home husband, clearly emasculated and representing the kind of man Stallone fears the most. This goes on for about five-to-ten minutes as they escape and more people are killed. The Hooters girl attempts to play hero by attempting to pretend that she’s been kidnapped, but she only slows their pursuers down for about ten seconds. What a heroic sacrifice. In yet another miscalculation, the Expendabelles escape on one of Sultan’s planes, very conveniently rigged with explosives with no explanation as to why. Luckily, they manage to jump out in time and avoid his killer shark army. But somehow run straight into the guards, now with guns! They’re dragged off to the evil dungeon, where they meet none other than Honey Boo Boo. Meanwhile, the hostage eagerly agrees to help the Sultan provide as much radioactive materials as possible, while complaining about the Expendabelles. He promptly orders their collective execution, and then prepares to leave. However, this plan is foiled when all of the guards are suddenly murdered by…Lead Expendabelle’s mom! It’s also revealed that she’s an ex-girlfriend of the Sultan, meaning that there’s a possibility that Lead Expendable could be his daughter. Whilst Honey Boo Boo chows on food brought by one of the older Expendabelles, Lead Expendabelle and her mother fight over who gets to sleep with him. These guards are perpetually horny, so they naturally let their guards down as one of the Expendabelles appears out of nowhere and loses her top to distract them. The evil Sultan, who’s about to sell uranium that could potentially threaten the entire world, has a dance party where he meets up with his North Korean and Iranian buyers. Meanwhile, the Expendabelles decide to rescue their idiot colleague who got herself kidnapped to buy them time. Right when the auction concludes is when the Expendabelles decide to attack, completely ruining the element of surprise and sending the entire building full of guards after them. Meanwhile, Lead Expendables' mother confronts the Sultan, where they prepare to do battle. Meanwhile, the North Korean knows kung fu or something because he’s Asian. Two of the Expendabelles take him on as Lead Expendables' mother fights the Sultan and two more are on a helicopter fighting a couple other guys. At this point, the Sultan has won his fight and escaped to a conveniently placed submarine. The helicopter eventually explodes. The Sultan’s submarine explodes because it was loaded with C4. Barney congratulates them on their mission.[32]
- Ben Kingsley was on the wish list to be the Sultan.[33]
- Melissa McCarthy and Rebel Wilson were rumored for the role of Stupinsky, the so-called “plus sized Expendabelle,” a shit-hot mall cop recruited by Special Agent Tegan.[34]
- The film may be an action-comedy film.
- The film might be the start of a rebooted trilogy.[35]