The Expendables is an American action film franchise created by David Callaham and Sylvester Stallone. It revolves around a team of elite mercenaries and serves as an homage to 1980s and 1990s blockbuster action films, featuring iconic action stars. The franchise includes four films, released between 2010 and 2023, along with comic books, video games, and potential spin-offs, including a canceled all-female film. Known for its ensemble cast and explosive action, The Expendables celebrates both classic and modern action heroes.
The Expendables was once in line to become a major franchise, so where did it all go wrong and could a fifth movie in the series still happen?
The Expendables 5 may never happen after the fourth movie bombed, but if it does it can finally fix Sylvester Stallone's most annoying movie rule.
The Expendables franchise gifted action icon Jean-Claude Van Damme with his greatest character name, which was very fitting for his villain.
The last Expendables movie was a box office bomb, but there are still some ways to save the franchise, like an all-female spinoff or casting The Rock.
Dwayne Johnson once revealed his dream role in The Expendables, and it would continue a villain trend that began back with the second film.
A decade ago, Dwayne Johnson named his dream Expendables movie role in a Reddit AMA, and it may have been just what the franchise needed.
Stallone's iconic Rocky character gets a much better ending in the Creed films than another one of his characters, Barney, receives in Expend4bles.
From martial arts legends to Hollywood icons, these action stars deserved better than their underwhelming roles in The Expendables franchise.
An intense four-minute scene during the climax of The Expendables 2 highlights all of the positive qualities of the action-packed franchise.
Jason Statham has a history of fronting hit action franchises, but what should have been his best series ended up wasting his talents completely.
Sylvester Stallone & Arnold Schwarzenegger have only appeared in 4 films together, 3 of them Expendables movies, leaving audiences wanting more.
Sylvester Stallone ed the Expendables franchise to his replacement in 2014, but it was nearly impossible for the movie series to be recovered.
Expendables 4 had a $100 million budget, but the CGI is poor, and the VFX artists at Corridor Crew have a good explanation for why it didn't work.
The filmmaker who helped Jason Statham become a movie star would be the best choice to help save one of the actor's flagging action franchises.
Whether it's happening or not, The Expendables 5 has the opposite problem of another ensemble action movie that's considering a fifth series entry.
The success of the John Wick movies, which have become one of the Top 100 movie franchises of all time, puts a previous action franchise to shame.
With four franchise titles to its name, The Expendables series missed out on the perfect opportunity to expand its movie universe several years ago.
Jason Statham's latest action blockbuster might have revealed the key to saving one of the actor's biggest franchises as the fifth installment nears.
The Expendables 4 just about killed the franchise, but Jason Statham may have the perfect replacement with an David Ayer war movie remake.
The future of the Expendables franchise looks uncertain, but it turns out that the movies wasted an ideal casting replacement over a decade ago.
