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    Ok, this would just be a fun flick to watch.  How could it not?  It seems to be collecting every 80’s action hero out there as well.  If you want to track the making of it, here is a blogger that is on set and connected.  –Matt 

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Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li in town for ‘The Expendables’

May 12, 2009 

Sylvester Stallone takes aim in a production still from the Brazil set of ‘The Expendables,’ which this week started shooting in New Orleans.

The collective muscle mass of the New Orleans area was pumped up considerably this week with the arrival of the brawny, alpha-dog cast of the big-budget action flick “The Expendables,” which started shooting Monday morning, headed by writer-director-actor Sylvester Stallone.

The film, which will shoot here through late June, has had a preproduction crew on the ground for weeks while the cameras and stars were on location in Brazil. This week, however, the behind-the-scenes types are being joined by the likes of Stallone and co-stars Jason Statham and Jet Li.

Other major names in the cast expected to arrive over the next few weeks: Mickey Rourke, Brittany Murphy, Eric Roberts, Steve Austin and Dolph Lundgren.

Former action star and current California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger also will play a small role in “The Expendables,” although those scenes will be shot on the West Coast in deference to Schwarzenegger’s schedule.

Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham on the ‘Expendables’ set in Brazil.

ALL A-TWITTER

“Expendables” unit publicist Sheryl Main has been sharing her thoughts via Twitter since production started last month. A sampling of her Tweets:

• From Sunday (May 11): “Sunny Sunday a.m. in the Big Easy. A big biker convention and Mother’s Day — quite a combo. Yay, we start shooting tomorrow. …”

• From April 21, while shooting in Brazil: “Tonight, we have Sly, Statham, Jet Li and Terry Crews together for the first time. Hope my head doesn’t explode from the excitement.”

• From April 20, while shooting in Brazil: “I’m having a moment here people … Jet Li Jet Li Jet Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!”

• From April 16, while shooting in Brazil: Rumor control here … Sly didn’t break his arm. He has cuts and bruises from the flying, rolling, punching, stabbing stunt, but no breakage.”

Follow Main’s Twitter feed at twitter.com/marialascala.

This week is expected to see the film’s three principles — Statham, Li and Stallone — on set. Others will “trickle in and out” over the seven weeks the production is in town, said Diego Martinez of Millennium Films, the production company behind the movie.

Actually, Stallone has been in town for some time, prepping for today’s first day of shooting, a fact to which a handful of Canal Street passers-by on Thursday could attest when he took possession of what unit publicist Sheryl Main calls “his newest baby — a 2006 tricked-out-to-the-max Ford Mustang GT convertible.”

By all accounts, the production is as excited to be in town as local action fans are to have it here. The one-word reaction of Main after being welcomed to town Monday morning, the first day of the local shoot: “Woo-hoo!”

“The Expendables” tells the story of a trio of guns-for-hire who become involved in a mission to overthrow a South American dictator.

The production had been expected in town a couple of weeks ago, but a health issue involving one of the actors — reportedly Statham — delayed the start until this week.

Much of the movie will be shot at the new Louisiana Film Studios facility in the Elmwood industrial park, which includes a backlot highlighted by a freshly built Brazilian palace-fortress set that is expected to take a beating in the next few weeks. Location shots at sites throughout the area also are expected.

“The Expendables” joins the Warner-Bros.-backed supernatural Western “Jonah Hex” as one of two major productions currently shooting in town. “Jonah Hex” has been shooting in the New Orleans area since April 13 and is expected to continue through mid-June.

That film is based on a DC Comics character and boasts Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Will Arnett and Michael Shannon among its stars.

Smaller local feature-film productions include “Leonie,” the Brandon Routh comics-inspired actioner “Dead of Night” and the soon-to-shoot “Cotton.” 

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