It seems that Sylvestore Stallone will not be directing the sequel to his staggeringly successful ridiculous action flick, after all. According to a source who spoke to 24 Frames, Stallone has been meeting with directors to find one who can take over for The Expendables 2, or whatever it will be named.
This comes on top of news that the script for the film was written by David Agosto and Ken Kaufman (Space Cowboys). The original was of course written by Stallone, who co-wrote with David Callaham.
Not that this film needs a script. Get all the original actors back in on it, hire Bruce Willis as the main bad guy as Stallone has insinuated before, and boom- you’ve got another $275 million worldwide, easy.
So what do you folks think? What directors would do the movie justice? Who could improve on it?
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I think only Stallone can direct Stallone movies at this point. He runs so close to being a cartoon, but manages to retain some basic sense of oddball integrity that it saves him from complete ridiculousness. I think he qualifies as an auteur, as weird as that sounds.
I stated it in the B-Action thread, but I’ll happily repeat it here: Isaac Florentine could direct the fuck out of Expendables 2!
Isaac Florentine or (especially) John Hyams. They get a sense of the appropriate tone for this. Just watch the Undisputed sequels or Universal Soldier: Regeneraton if you don’t believe me. Also, and more importantly, they shoot clear coherent action.
Alternatively, he could call on someone like Renny Harlin. Guy’s a total hack and has not lived up to his promise. But he does know how to mount good set pieces. 12 Rounds sucked ass… But it was all set pieces. And some of them were effective.
John McTiernan. That is all!
I guess Shane Black is too busy
…I’d kill to have Michael Bay make this. Just imagine the explosions with me. haha
I think John McTiernan is still in jail. Not director jail, real jail. I say give it to that crazy Dutch bastard Verhoven.
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