FlipBoard
Here’s some news I initially thought was a joke: producer Avi Lerner is reportedly looking to cast Meryl Streep, Cameron Diaz, and Milla Jovovich in a female version of The Expendables called “The Expendabelles.” Let’s hope he’s also on the lookout for a new title and premise.
[Lerner] is negotiating with Meryl Streep, Cameron Diaz and Milla Jovovich to be in The ExpendaBelles.
Lerner also confides he is searching for a female director for the action film that has a script by Legally Blonde scribes Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. Insiders say they need to find that director before they begin the casting process. All three of those actresses have done well in action including Streep, who did The River Wild. [Deadline]
I’m all for more female-driven movies, but ideally, writing strong female characters isn’t just writing male characters and then drawing boobs on them at the last second. Also, let’s be honest, The Expendables was pretty dumb to begin with. Instead of the women getting a second-rate ripoff, why not get the Expendables bros do some lady stuff? I’d pay to see Stallone, Statham, Lundgren, Norris and the gang in The Hours. Eh oh, Mrs. Dalloway said she’d buy da flowers herself.
I’ve read a million glowing reviews for this movie, but my God, I’ve never seen something look as unwatchable as this.
![[avatar]](https://profilecdn-woven.netdna-ssl.com/photo/257/profile)
My ideal cast list:
Sigourney Weaver
Linda Hamilton
Angelina Jolie (probably too expensive)
Michelle Rodriguez
Lucy Lawless
Michelle Yeoh
Milla Jovovich
You left out Judi Dench and Helen Mirren.
as Clarence replied I am alarmed that a student able to make($)8920 in a few weeks on the internet. look at this now,,, [smal.ly]
That photoshop. Fucking great.
I would never stop baking cakes if my eggs made that dramatic a sound when I cracked them.
No one wants more female-driven movies, Vince. No one.
This really drives home how Hollywood views “aging” actors. Cameron Diaz, Milla Jovovich – aren’t they in their mid-40s? The Expendables guys are 55 to… what is Sly now, 108?
Save up. Give it all at once. Don’t spread your genius around too thin.
So ‘The Hours’ is three stories of women who aren’t satisfied emotionally and complain about it through cryptic passive-aggressive means? So I could record my life with three different cameras and make the same money, right?
Is it your mom, your girlfriend, and your sister? Just a guess.
Indeed :-)
“In the name of the Girlfriend, the Sister, and the saddened Mother, shall we be underwhelmed forever. Blessed be the Holy Trinity of Disappointment, for it is everlasting, and will never ever forget about that one Thanksgiving. Amen.”
How was Geena Davis not invited to this abomination?
There should be a scene in the movie where The Expendabelles go around a table lip syncing a song while pretending their tampon/hair brushes as microphones.
Didn’t Cameron Diaz already do that in Charlies angel’s 3?
… and let’s throw Susan Sarandon on that pile, while we’re at it. The ExpendaBelles should at least be over 50 and women who actually portrayed strong characters. Jesus, I’m almost on board with this movie.
Jodie Foster kinda lends herself to this whole genre by default.
And Jessica Lange. Fuck Mike, let me cast this and it will be brilliant.
Should add Helen Mirren to this.
Robo swoops in with a fantastic photoshop.
I just took a little trip down memory lane with the “bad ideas” tag. Thanks for that.
meryl streep as stallones younger sister ? :-O
Meryl Streep better have rocket hands or god is dead.
The Hours is fucking terrible, the worst kind of middlebrow straining-to-be-profound garbage that sucks in some genuine talent and lets them disgrace themselves (Ed Harris’s campy death scene still haunts me).
Is the plot going to center around an illicit groupon styled scam involving a prominent outlet mall near the tribal casino that takes 2 hours to drive to?
Ugh, I hate “The Hours”. And the “ExependaBelles” sounds like a bad joke.