Who’d say? Almost nine years have passed since the premiere of mercenaries 3, in August 2014, belonging to the action saga promoted by Stallone and which has brought together the best of the stars of the genre from the eighties to the present. Since the first installment, in 2010, names like Harrison Ford, Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Bruce Willis, Jet Li, Mel Gibson and even our Antonio Banderasand a few more, have been seen in the franchise.
A saga without more pretensions to make action movie lovers have a very entertaining time with its parade of stars, chases, shots and fights and whose three films so far have garnered box office 804 million dollars.
And the Show It will continue soon, but this time facing more possible sequels with new names, new blood. So, to see how they spend it in mercenaries 4 (The Expend4bles in its original title in English) we already have a first full trailer.
‘The Expendables 4’, cast and director
But first, we start with the distribution because there are important news. They do repeat Barney “Schizo” Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Gunner Jensen (dolph lundgren) and Toll Road (Randy Couture), but on this occasion, and as Stallone himself announced, the leader of the elite mercenary team, Barney Ross, will give the leading role of the film to the character of Lee ChristmasSo Jason Statham will be the new head of the group for the next installments, while Barney’s presence will be more secondary.
Among the new additions we will have Megan fox, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Tony Jaa (from the series Ong Bak), Iko Uwais (of murderous raid and sequel), Jacob Scipio (Armando Aretas in Bad Boys for Life), Levy Tran (actress of the series MacGyver) and andy garcia. And in the direction section, who has taken the reins is the Californian scott waughof need for speed either Below Zero: Miracle on the Mountain, and that among his next projects is the film breakout that would star schwarzenegger. Plus, she’s already shot Hidden Strike with Jackie Chan and John Cena.
‘The Expendables 4’, synopsis
Although not too many details have been advanced, We know that the team will have to take on the most dangerous mission in which they have participated at the time. A task that could even cause a serious incident on a global scale with a nuclear conflict.
In order to succeed, they must be used to the full based on ingenuity, but above all resorting to brute force and all kinds of arsenal that they have at hand and with which they can face their enemies.
‘The Expendables 4’, trailer
And all this leads us to the trailer, in which after a few brief presentation images of Lee Christmas with what is supposed to be his romantic partner, and something else, played by Megan Foxwe see Barney knocking on his door and naturally he brings him work.
He has a new mission and he needs your help. “Some terrorists have seized some nuclear missiles on a cargo ship off the coast… if those ‘kids’ explode, it will be World War III.”.
‘The Expendables 4’, release date
Produced by Millennium Media and Campbell Grobman Films, the US release distributed by Lionsgate is scheduled for friday september 22.
The same date is also scheduled for the premiere in Spain by the hand of Vértice Cine.
‘The Expendables 4’, poster
To round off the launch of the trailer, a the first official poster of the movie.
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