'I think that maybe the real fans felt a little bit short-changed.'
The Big Picture Expend4bles brings back our favourite old-age painmakers for another shot at bone-breaking action. Sylvester Stallone returns for a final outing as the team's leader, Barney Ross, joined by familiar faces including Jason Statham as Lee Christmas, the team's knife specialist, Dolph Lundgren as the visually impaired Gunner Jensen, and Randy Couture as Toll Road, the squad's demolition expert.
But given the success of the first two movies, which grossed, respectively, $103 million domestic and $274 million worldwide, then $85 million domestic and $314.9 million worldwide, what happened to the third film that saw the domestic return plummet to a shocking $39.3 million? Overseas, the movie did manage to outgross the original but its final tally of $214.6 million was the lowest of the franchise so far.
"That's a very good point you bring up because, you know, on the third one, I don't know, it was probably an overreach on our part or something we assumed. We went for the PG-13. Look, in our mind, it was really to sort of try to reintroduce Expendables maybe to a wider audience, but I think that maybe the real fans felt a little bit short-changed."
"They wanna feel that explosion in their face and the machine guns and all that visceral action, that rumbling and trembling. I think they've maybe felt a little bit, you know, they didn't know what to make of it sort of thing. And again, the story itself became, for me, a little bit bloated, perhaps. I still think it was a fun ride and a fun film, but on this one, we said, “Okay,” because a couple of years after the third one, we were getting a lot of interest, a lot of buyers.
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