Millennium Films exec Jeffrey Greenstein explains why the female-led Expendables movie was scrapped. 'Why not just have women on the regular team and [they're] badass?'
After a decade of development hell, the female-led Expendables movie The ExpendaBelles is officially dead, and producer Jeffrey Greenstein is opening up about why. The action franchise was co-created by Sylvester Stallone and future Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings scribe David Callaham and revolves around a group of mercenaries and their various missions around the globe.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Millennium Films' Jeffrey Greenstein explained why the female-led Expendables movie, The ExpendaBelles, is no longer moving forward. The studio exec cited his major issue with the project throughout its development was the separation of the genders, rather than putting them together with the male team.
I don't think it's necessarily a shift, at least from our perspective. Maybe it's more that the rest of the world is now thinking about other stories to tell. With The Hitman's Bodyguard, Salma's [Hayek] character was just so much fun, it made sense to build the second film around her. We also like working with the same people, so we did Till Death with Megan [Fox] and she's in the new Expendables. It's really just about working with talented people.
There are sure to be many, however, who agree with the decision to scrap The ExpendaBelles for the same reason as Greenstein, a desire to see more female characters included in the mainline movies. The first Expendables largely saw its female characters treated as damsels-in-distress or sex objects, while the introduction of Yu Nan's Maggie in The Expendables 2 was somewhat of a step in the right direction.
Given no actors were ever attached to The ExpendaBelles, that also leaves the door open for those considered for the film to appear in the mainline Expendables movie.
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