WI: "Expendables" type film made in the 90s?

cortz#9

Emperor Norton I said:
Maybe. But it'd be a really, really bit part. No major studio will put in the effort on who Arnold was to make them an actual player. He'd be Henchmen #2.
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That's what I was thinking, maybe he gets killed off early and then in the remake he could reprise the role turns out he escaped at the last second and mended his ways so he's now a good guy.
 
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Emperor Norton I

Emperor Norton I

Is this a remake or a sequel in your thinking? Because in a sequel, what about Clint Eastwood as the grizzled, pissed off old man leading the team?
 

Jcoggins

my idea is this: A seven samurai like scenario wherein the stars are hired by a village to protect them from a group of human traffickers. the seven would be played by Schwarzennegger, Stallone, Willis, Seagal, Eastwood, Mr. T, and Weaver. They decimate the traffickers, prompting the survivors to hire a band of counter mercenaries consisting of Norris, Campbell, Van-damme, Connery, Lundgren, Hogan, and Hamilton. The resulting Match ups would be

Schwarzennegger vs. Connery
Stallone vs. Lundgren
Willis vs. Campbell
Seagal vs. Van-Damme
Eastwood vs. Norris
Mr. T vs. Hogan
Weaver vs. Hamilton
 

cortz#9

Emperor Norton I said:
Is this a remake or a sequel in your thinking? Because in a sequel, what about Clint Eastwood as the grizzled, pissed off old man leading the team?
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Actually I was originally thinking remake but got side tracked. Now I'm thinking sequel and yeah bringing back Eastwood in the way you describe would be good.
 

cortz#9

Jcoggins said:
my idea is this: A seven samurai like scenario wherein the stars are hired by a village to protect them from a group of human traffickers. the seven would be played by Schwarzennegger, Stallone, Willis, Seagal, Eastwood, Mr. T, and Weaver. They decimate the traffickers, prompting the survivors to hire a band of counter mercenaries consisting of Norris, Campbell, Van-damme, Connery, Lundgren, Hogan, and Hamilton. The resulting Match ups would be

Schwarzennegger vs. Connery
Stallone vs. Lundgren
Willis vs. Campbell
Seagal vs. Van-Damme
Eastwood vs. Norris
Mr. T vs. Hogan
Weaver vs. Hamilton
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Interesting but I don't think Norris would play a bad guy, although I would like to see both him and Seagal play villains. Maybe not in this film but some thing down the road. I think they'd make good villains, maybe better than heroes.
 

Jcoggins

cortz#9 said:
Interesting but I don't think Norris would play a bad guy, although I would like to see both him and Seagal play villains. Maybe not in this film but some thing down the road. I think they'd make good villains, maybe better than heroes.
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his first role was a villain
 

Mike Stearns

Tyr said:
By the late 2000s the 80s had became kitsch and cool.
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Yeah. We seem to be transitioning into an 80s revival period. We've had two GI Joe films, three Transformers films, two Expendibles films, two more Die Hard movies, another Indy movie, and a Captain Power reboot, in addition to The Iron Lady and Argo. We're apparently getting a new Ninja Turtles movie as well.
 
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Mike Stearns

cortz#9 said:
Actually I was thinking late 70s and not a revival more of a last hurrah.
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But most of most the best action movies, like Terminator, Die Hard and the Indy movies, were made in the 80s and 90s. An earlier Expenadibles film would probably work best some time between 1995 and 1999. That's the period when Hollywood began to shift away from action films and towards sci-fi, fantasy and comic books.
 

cortz#9

Mike Stearns said:
But most of most the best action movies, like Terminator, Die Hard and the Indy movies, were made made in the 80s and 90s. An earlier Expendibles film would probably work best some time between 1995 and 1999. That's period when Hollywood began to shift away from action films and towards sci-fi, fantasy and comic books.
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As I said in post #36 back in the late 70s I thought it would kick ass if Eastwood & Bronson and a few other action film stars of the day did a Magnificent 7-Dirty Dozen type movie. When the Expendibles came out it reminded me of that idea I had as a kid. After seeing this thread I thought what if my old idea was the first Expendibles flick and in the 90s they made a remake or a sequel. It was just a what if idea.
 

Jcoggins

Mike Stearns said:
Yeah. We seem to be transitioning into an 80s revival period. We've had two GI Joe films, three Transformers films, two Expendibles films, two more Die Hard movies, another Indy movie, and a Captain Power reboot, in addition to The Iron Lady and Argo. We're apparently getting a new Ninja Turtles movie as well.
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michael bay's ninja turtles has been thankfully canceled
 

Mike Stearns

Emperor Norton I said:
Are you sure? Please be right. I hate Michael Bay, and I saw what was alleged to be a leaked script and it is just a cinematic abortion.
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I hadn't heard that. I don't hate Michael Bay, but I don't think he has the right sensibility for the Ninja Turtles and so far as I know, he has no experience directing a martial arts movie, which would be important as they are called the Ninja Turtles for a reason.
 
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thekingsguard

cortz#9 said:
When I was a kid I always thought that Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Lee Marvin and James Caan should’ve done an action flick together with Christopher Lee, David Carradine and John Saxon as the villains. Didn’t give the script much thought, just thought it’d be kind of a Magnificent Seven-Dirty Dozen type thing. This would be a late 70s film.

Now of course I’m thinking it would make a great Expendables Movie. Throw in Gene Hackman, Burt Reynolds and maybe Roger Moor, George Kennedy and Richard Roundtree and you’ve got one hell of a film! Then in the 90s you do the remake with all the other actors already mentioned in this thread. Hell now that I think about it, you could throw in Stallone and shwarzenegger in the 70s flick as well.
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You mean like this?

Expendables 1970's.jpg
 
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