Sylvester Stallone is one busy dude. He’s currently working onCreed 2, providing frequent updates from the set on social media and it was just recently announced thatRambo 5is really happening with a release date set for September of 2019. Now, it has been confirmed that Stallone has officially signed on for the highly anticipatedExpendables 4after months of speculation. Production onExpendables 4andRambo 5are both expected to begin soon, withExpendables 4filming at the end of this summer, setting up one hell of a busy year forSylvester Stallone.
Sylvester Stallone teased Expendables 4at the beginning of the year, but there were still some contractual disputes that needed to be settled between himself and Nu Image/Millennium’s chairman Avi Lerner. The two obviously settled their differences to getRambo 5talks going and now, according to Deadline, Nu Image/Millennium has struck a deal with Chinese exhibition giant Dadi, who have pre-bought mainland China distribution rights toExpendables 4andRambo 5. Lerner previously revealed that he and Stallone had agreed on 95 percent of everything, but that the extra 5 percent was going to take a while.
Now thatExpendables 4is officially happening, who will be joining up with Sylvester Stallone this time around?Arnold Schwarzenegger expressed interest in 2017, but only if Stallone was happy with the script. However, filming was set to already be underway for the upcomingTerminator 6, which has now been pushed back to this summer, which is whenExpendables 4is expected to begin shooting. There could be a scheduling conflict for Schwarzenegger if both movies plan to start production in a few months.
Jason Statham and Dolph Lundgren will more than likely show up forExpendables 4, which is rumored to start filming in Bulgaria later this summer. Bruce Willis will probably not be coming back to the franchise after a messy falling out with Sylvester Stallone. Wesley Snipes and Jet Li could come back, but nothing has been confirmed at this time. No director has been announced either, which could mean that Stallone is going to helmExpendables 4while Gregory Poirier writes the script.
As previously noted,Creed 2is still shooting in Philadelphia with production set to wrap soon. That being said, looking at Arnold Schwarzenegger’s schedule as well as Sylvester Stallone’s, it seems pretty unlikely thatExpendables 4will begin shooting this summer. Instead, early fall seems like a safer bet. Though no release date has been set, Deadline maintains that the 4th installment will be out in early 2019 withRambo 5coming in September of 2019. It’s a lot to take in, but Sylvester Stallone seems like he’s ready to jump back into action in a major way for 2019 and bringThe Expendablesback together. You can read the original report about Sylvester Stallone officially signing on forExpendables 4atDeadline.
