After the poor performance of Bullet to the Head and The Last Stand, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger will be hoping their combined might is enough to reignite the box office returns for the aging action icons when the duo team up for Escape Plan, which has just received its first poster today....
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Directed by Mikael Håfström (1408), Escape Plan - formerly The Tomb - sees Stallone as Ray Breslin, the world's foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility of his own design. But when Ray is wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Schwarzenegger) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
Escape Plan is due for release on October 18th and features a supporting cast that includes
Jim Caviezel (Person of Interest), Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson (Real Steel), Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Vincent D'Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) and Vinnie Jones (X-Men: The Last Stand).
Meanwhile in other Stallone / Schwarzenegger related news, Showbiz 411 is reporting that Lionsgate is eyeing Mel Gibson for the villain in next year's The Expendables 3, which is expected to reunite much of the original cast, alongside the likes of Jackie Chan, Wesley Snipes, Nicolas Cage and Milla Jovovich. Mad Mel had been tipped as a potential director for the third instalment in the action franchise before the appointment of Patrick Hughes (Red Hill), and will next be seen as the bad guy in Robert Rodriguez's grindhouse sequel Machete Kills. If Gibson's not careful taking on all these villain roles, he's gonna find himself typecast...
Directed by Mikael Håfström (1408), Escape Plan - formerly The Tomb - sees Stallone as Ray Breslin, the world's foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility of his own design. But when Ray is wrongly imprisoned, he must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Schwarzenegger) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
Escape Plan is due for release on October 18th and features a supporting cast that includes
Jim Caviezel (Person of Interest), Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson (Real Steel), Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Vincent D'Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) and Vinnie Jones (X-Men: The Last Stand).
Meanwhile in other Stallone / Schwarzenegger related news, Showbiz 411 is reporting that Lionsgate is eyeing Mel Gibson for the villain in next year's The Expendables 3, which is expected to reunite much of the original cast, alongside the likes of Jackie Chan, Wesley Snipes, Nicolas Cage and Milla Jovovich. Mad Mel had been tipped as a potential director for the third instalment in the action franchise before the appointment of Patrick Hughes (Red Hill), and will next be seen as the bad guy in Robert Rodriguez's grindhouse sequel Machete Kills. If Gibson's not careful taking on all these villain roles, he's gonna find himself typecast...