With just a few weeks to go before the The Expendables 2 hits cinemas, Lionsgate has released a short behind-the-scenes featurette to help get us in the mood for what promises to be the ultimate old school action team-up. The follow-up to 2010's The Expendables, the upcoming film sees Simon West (Con Air) taking over directing duties from Sylvester Stallone, while Sly is joined in front of the camera by a veritable who's who of action cinema, including icons such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris. Here's the official synopsis, and you can check out the behind-the-scenes feature below...
"The Expendables are back and this time it’s personal… Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren),Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) — with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan) aboard — are reunited when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong and one of their own is viciously killed, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory where the odds are stacked against them. Hell-bent on payback, the crew cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces, wreaking havoc and shutting down an unexpected threat in the nick of time – six pounds of weapons-grade plutonium; enough to change the balance of power in the world. But that’s nothing compared to the justice they serve against the villainous adversary who savagely murdered their brother. That is done the Expendables way…"
The Expendables 2 opens in the UK on August 16th and hits North American cinemas the following day.
