The Expendables 4 may have been a big disappointment in many ways, but Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham's next action film could make up for it.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham have a new action movie in development, which already sounds like an improvement on The Expendables 4. Part of the excitement surrounding the original Expendables was that icons like Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jet Li, Bruce Wills and many more were teaming together. In reality, the bulk of the films were shouldered by Stallone - who also created the series - and Jason Statham.
The good-natured bromance between Statham and Stallone's characters grounded all The Expendables movies, and the two have formed a close friendship offscreen too. In 2013, Stallone co-produced and wrote Homefront for Statham, an action thriller about a retired DEA agent facing off against a vicious drug dealer.
This will adapt the novel of the same name by comic writer Chuck Dixon, with Statham playing the titular character. In the book, Levon Cade dusts off his black ops past when a friend's daughter goes missing and his old skills are put to the test when he unearths a conspiracy. It should be noted that, like Homefront before it, Stallone is writing the script for Levon's Trade, and is not set to play a role.
Why Stallone & Statham’s New Movie Already Sounds Better Than The Expendables 4 Levon's Trade sounds like the kind of meat and potato action movie Stallone and Statham have made their careers on, and Ayer behind the camera should ensure it's anything but generic. Hopefully Levon's Trade will wash away the disappointment of Expendables 4, which didn't even have any outstanding setpieces to make up for how uninspired the story was.
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