Weldon also talks about going back to basics with 'Expend4bles,' how they came up with the title, and the status of ‘Night Has Fallen.’
The Big Picture Producer Les Weldon knows a thing or two about action movies. He’s honed the craft since the mid-’90s before joining the Has Fallen series with Gerard Butler and serving as producer on this franchise since The Expendables in 2010. He has a passion for the story and a respect for action fans and audiences that makes him the perfect partner for the fourth Jason Statham-led entry, Expend4bles.
LES WELDON: The original Expendables was an experiment of sorts. We didn't know what would happen bringing all these action stars together. I mean, was that gonna be just everybody's ego, too big to even fit on the set? Was it going to be a love fest or somewhere in between? So, there were a lot of unknowns with the first one. You discover things as you go, and you make some mistakes, and then you discover other cool things, and it sort of evolves as a film itself.
As far as actors go, whether it's in another Expendables-affiliated project or anything that you produce in the future, can you pinpoint a dream action star you're dying to work with? But then I also want to know, who's another actor that you admire who’s the furthest thing from an action star, but you’d love to see switch gears and give the genre a go?
WELDON: There's a certain brand identification that you wanna stick with. And again, it's trying not to, I don't want to say even outthink the audience because you never can, but trying not to project what you think the audience wants.
WELDON: The 2019 version, while I thought that there was some really cool and great stuff, I think it was compared maybe unfairly to Guillermo [del Toro’s] Hellboy’s. Having to compete with that made it a little glossier than the fans maybe liked or wanted, and so that's why this new one is a little more retro, if you like.
WELDON: Yeah. We're just about finished with the editing. That film is very rooted and very real if you will, but there are a couple of sequences that we have to get the CGI right so that you don't look at it and go, “Oh, that creature wasn't quite there.” So we finished the film, and we're ready to get into the next part of post on it.
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