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Special EXPENDABLES Scene Shot

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke and Carl Weathers in PREDATOR(1987).
© 20th Century Fox

Sure to attract the interest of any action fan of 1980s cinema, director Sylvester Stallone filmed an interesting scene over the weekend for his next action flick, The Expendables. With most of the film's lensing already in the can, the director found time in their schedules to shoot a scene between Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis. The film's production blog, Ethelmae's Blog, described the excitement felt on the set after watching these three action icons come together to shoot what is being described as a pivotal set-up to the merc storyline.

After Arnold, Bruce and Sly went through the scene a couple of times they all 3 headed off to wardrobe and make-up.  at 8:10am with three cameras rolling the biggest action icons of our time went to work.  I thought it was electric in Brazil when all of The Expendables stepped on set – but today was atomic!!!!  the whole crew was mesmerized as we watched the three of them play off of each other in a pivotal scene that sets up the whole movie.  And while I can’t/don’t want to give too much away I can tell you that Arnold’s character is Trench and Bruce is Church, the scene was shot in an empty church without extras and minimal set dec and it has tension and humor – what more can a girl ask for!  Sly was in top form as a director today and was in total command.  Bruce and Arnold were consummate professionals at all times – we got through the scene quickly without compromise.  In 6 hours we did wide shots, close-ups, turned around…the whole nine yards…pretty impressive.  Very Clint Eastwood.

With the EPK cameras rolling the three of them talked to me about working together for the first time and it is very funny…can’t wait to see that piece of footage land somewhere!  Karen Ballard also took some great shots – we are going to release a shot as soon as we go through the approval process which is why I am not posting anything today.  But I will have it posted as soon as we release it.

Check out the full blog entry here.

The movie stars Stallone, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Charisma Carpenter, Giselle Itie, Brittany Murphy, Steve Austin, David Zayas and Amin Joseph. Sly penned the story and helmed.

Plot Concept: The story follows a team of mercenaries on a mission to overthrow a South American dictator.

The Expendables will hit theaters August 20, 2010.