The Expendables 4Principal photography began at the beginning October, just weeks after the casting announcements. This is what it looks like, with familiar faces Sylvester Stallone & Jason Statham joining them. The Expendables 4This will serve as a sort of relaunch for the action franchise. However, word’s come in that there have already been multiple injuries during the course of production.
The midst of The Expendables 4Millennium Films, the production house behind the action movie, shared that a painter fell from great heights during preproduction. He was later treated in hospital. The second injury, which happened more recently, involved a stuntman accidentally backing up a slow-moving vehicle over a camera assistant’s foot, though the assistant has also recovered. Here’s what Millennium had to say to Deadline:
The production of Expendables 4 is taking every precaution to ensure the safety of all crew.
This is not the first time people have been injured or worsened on the set. Expendables movie. During The Expendables 2.’s shoot in 2011, a stuntman named Kun Liu was killed while performing a scene on an inflatable boat involving a staged explosion, and another stuntman was critically injured. Some of the franchise’s leading stars, like Sylvester Stallone, Terry Crews and Antonio Banderas, have talked before about injuries they’ve suffered while making these movies, with Stallone specifically saying during The Expendables promotional tour that he’s broken his neck and spine, dislocated his shoulders and even once fell on his back and “had to put some metal in there.”
Hopefully The Expendables 4 team won’t have to deal with any more injuries before filming concludes, although when that will be is unclear. Sylvester Stallone, however, completed his work on the movie in mid-October, indicating his character, Barney Ross, won’t have as big of a role compared to the last three movies. Instead, it looks like Jason Statham’s Lee Christmas will be taking over as the lead character, though like Ross, he’s been part of this franchise since the beginning.
We’ll also reunite with Dolph Lundgren’s Gunner Jensen and Randy Couture’s Toll Road in The Expendables 4Curtis and Eddie Hall are among the newcomers to the line-up. “50 Cent” Jackson, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Andy García, Sheila Shah, Jacob Scipio and Levy Tran. Other than Uwais being confirmed as the main villain (reportedly a former soldier-turned-arms dealer who’s built a private army), none of the other roles have been disclosed. Need for Speed’s Scott Waugh is directing, while Spenser Cohen came up with the story and worked on the script with Max Adams and John Joseph Connolly.
The Expendables 4 is expected to come out in 2022, but doesn’t have a release date assigned yet, so keep checking back with CinemaBlend for that information and other updates about the project. Our 2022 release calendar will show you which movies have been officially announced.