“The Expendables 4″: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme and more who left the film’s cast | Cinema | Expend4bles | Lights

It’s been nine years since action movie fans got a chance to see their favorite action stars in the same film again. After a long wait, the fourth part of the story “Immortals” –aka “Expend4bles”– Releasing on 21st September in all theaters across the country.

The franchise, which began in 2010 with the first appearance of top action movie actors in a movie that exploited the best of the genre, returns under the direction of Scott Waugh (“Need for Speed”). The long-awaited big screen sequel promises to be more violent than its predecessors while maintaining the gripping action sequences seen in the 2014 and 2012 films.

In this new installment, the team led by Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) returns to face a mission that could spark World War III. To carry out this dangerous mission, Ross once again enlists his friend Lee Christmas (Jason Statham) to put together a major mercenary force to put an end to a massive conspiracy that seeks to create nuclear conflict between America and the United States. Russia.

Fancy actors

As is common with any franchise, there have been changes in the cast over the years. Arnold Schwarzenegger – who made cameos in the previous three installments of the saga – will not be participating this time around. The actor explained that his participation in previous installments was a gesture of friendship with Stallone, but this time he has decided to step aside. “I did ‘The Expendables’ as an assistant to Stallone. And he said to me, ‘Oh, can you do The Expendables 2?’ I did it in one weekend. It was later expanded to ‘The Expendables 3’. And it was. Let’s do it together someday.”, Schwarzenegger commented in an interview with “Parade” media. Likewise, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Bruce Willis will not participate, the latter due to the frontotemporal dementia disorder he revealed in early 2022.

The cast of “The Expendables 4” continues to maintain a high profile, though not as prominently. Actors who have already appeared in previous installments such as Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren and Randy Kotcher are back. They are also joined by new faces like Jacob Scipio, Levi Tran, Andy Garcia, 50 Cent, Megan Fox and Aiko Uwais who play the villain in this fourth installment.

Like the previous films in the saga, this new film also receives criticism for its generic story and dialogues, which its audience doesn’t care about, because “The Expendables” is all about continuous action and its scenes without hesitation. , seeks to bring out the best in each of the actors that make up the cast. This time, the film is rated above 18 years due to high violent content.

A few days after its premiere, its main competitor “The Equalizer 3″ seems to have lost public interest in theaters, giving way to a box office-wielding action movie that appears to be the last installment of the saga. We will see Sylvester Stallone shooting weapons, punching left and right and breaking bones, then he will be replaced by Statham as the protagonist of the following adventures in one of the most famous pure action sagas.