The Expendables 2

With the August 17, 2012 release date for Expendables 2 right around the corner, Sly Stallone and crew are beginning to feed some information to rabid action movie fans who can't wait to see what The Expendables 2 has in store. Here are some links to recently released content to whet your appetite:

The Expendables 2 Official Website

The Expendables 2 Trailer

One other great tidbit of information now available is the film's release date: August 17th, 2012. Summer will be a good time for action fans.

Finally, Sly and crew are beginning to leak out tidbits of information that rabid fans are quickly devouring. Continue to check back here regularly. As soon as new information is released about this sure-to-be-blockbuster-film, you'll find it here.

Apparently the website "Legend of Chuck Norris" was able to secure a Japanese movie magazine that revealed key elements of the opening scene of Expendables 2. "As payback for taking out the corrupt CIA agent Monroe (Eric Roberts) in the first Expendables, cagey Agent Church (Bruce Willis) forces the Expendables to do an "easy mission": retrieve a missing CIA package from Gazak, a civil war torn country in Easter Europe.

The easy mission turns deadly when the Expendables are ambushed by a team of ruthless rival mercs, the Sangunaires, competing to get the same package. Tool (Mickey Rourke), the heart and souleof the Expendables, is brutally murdered by Vilain, the leader of the bloodthirsty guns for hire. Still, the Expendables manage to pull of the mission and return with the CIA package, but it's a hollow victory.

As their thoughts turn from grief to revenge, Tool's beautiful young daughter Fiona shows up. Cut from the same stone as her dad, she wants to join the Expendables when they hunt down Villain and his men. Barney (Stallone) promises her the Expendables will avenge Tool's death, but will not risk putting his best friend's daughter in harm's way.

Fiona, who is young and wile, embarks on her own revenge mission, complicating matters for Barney when she is captured and ransomed by VIlain. Now Barney and the expendables must risk everything to save her, kidnapping CIA Agent Church and pulling off a daring heist of the CIA package they were hired to bring back.

When Agent Church reveals why the CIA package is so valuable to Vilain, the stakes go up even higher. Inside the package are canisters of radioactive cesium which Vilain has been tasked with releasing on the people's uprising that threatens the thirty year rule of Gazak's vicious dictator, President Dogot.

The Expendables, along with Agent Church, are now faced with an impossible mission: rescue Fiona, foil a dictator's vicious plot to kill scores of innocent people, and avenge the death of one of their own."

To read the full article, go here.

According to Lionsgate, "The Expendables are back and this time it's personal... Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Lee Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren),Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) -- with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan) aboard -- are reunited when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong and one of their own is viciously killed, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory where the odds are stacked against them.

Hell-bent on payback, the crew cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces, wreaking havoc and shutting down an unexpected threat in the nick of time -- six pounds of weapons-grade plutonium; enough to change the balance of power in the world. But that's nothing compared to the justice they serve against the villainous adversary who savagely murdered their brother. That is done the Expendables way..."

Barney Ross -- Sylvester Stallone
Church -- Bruce Willis
Lead Villain -- Jean Claude Van Damme
Lee Christmas -- Jason Statham
Gunnar Jensen -- Dolph Lundgren
Hale Ceasar -- Terry Crews
Toll Road -- Randy Couture
Hector -- Scott Adkins
Yin Yang -- Jet Li
Maggie - Nan Yu
Trench -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Booker -- Chuck Norris

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