Sigourney Weaver for ExpendaBelles Movie?
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- August 5, 2014
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)
There’s a definite lack of kick-ass women action heroes in movies. We get a few of them every year, but the majority of the time it’s a male action hero, with a woman in distress and sometimes — just sometimes– we’ll get a really kick-ass female character who can take anyone on but they can be on periphery. Miho in Sin City comes to mind, as does The Bride in Kill Bill.
Even then, some of these films don’t pass the Bechdel Test, which I don’t think is always a good test, but I do think it’s telling. That’s why something like the ExpendaBelles really makes me excited as a movie goer, because I like seeing a unique spin on a classic idea.
The original Expendables did that by taking the idea of an ensemble action team, and just filling it to the rafters with as much 80′s, 90′s, and 00′s action stars possible. With the ExpendaBelles, they’re doing the same thing for women and, be honest, when was the last time you saw an all-female ensemble action movie?
At The Expendables 3 world premiere in London’s Leicester Square, Sylvester Stallone was reported by The Hollywood Reporter as saying that he would love Sigourney Weaver to join the film as Barney Ross’ wife. He may have been joking about the wife bit, since he ended it off with her getting the house, the kids, and his mercenaries, but in my mind there is no better person to lead the ExpendaBelles than Weaver. Ripley in the Alien franchise has always been the woman that all other female action stars are measured by. She’s feminine, but she kicks ass when she needs to kick ass.
When will we start seeing movement on the ExpendaBelles, according to producer Avi Lerner they’re:
Going to do it at the beginning of next year. We are writing the final lines of the script, we've got lots of ideas about who is going to be in it.
I really hope that Stallone gets his way and one of those ideas is Weaver leading the group. As for the film’s plot, Deadline reported that earlier this year:
When America's Navy SEALs are wiped out trying to penetrate the island lair of a deadly despot who has captured one of the world's top nuclear scientists, it becomes clear that there is no such thing as the right man for the job and that this is a mission so impossible that only women can handle it. The only way in: some of the world's deadliest female operatives must pose as high-class call-girls shipped in by private plane to satisfy a dictator -- and instead save the scientist and the day.
What do you think? Who should lead the ExpendaBelles Let us know in the comments below! We’ll have more news as it breaks on ExpendaBelles!
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