I haven’t yet received a screening invite to next week’s release of The Expendables 2. There seems to be a suggestion it’s screening in New York soon and there is already at least one fanboy review online so it’s not being hidden from everyone. That film features the teaming of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a much larger capacity than 2010’s not-so-pleasant original and it isn’t the final teaming of the ’80s action icons.
Along with Expendables 2, Summit (and distribution partner Lionsgate) is putting their money on another Arnie and Sly teaming with The Tomb, directed by Mikael Hafstrom (1408>) and co-starring James Caviezel, Vincent D’Onofrio, Vinnie Jones, Amy Ryan and 50 Cent and above is your first look at the pair in the maximum security prison actioner. Here’s the plot:
Written by Miles Chapman for the screen, with a rewrite by Jason Keller, The Tomb follows Ray Breslin (Stallone) who is the world’s foremost authority on structural security. He’s analyzed every high security prison and has gained a vast array of survival skills. But all Ray’s ingenuity and knowledge are about to be put to work in the most challenging test he’s ever faced: escaping from the master prison of his own design.
Schwarzenegger, in the role of Church, plays a complex inmate with multiple shades of grey. He’s the guy who fights to keep the prisoners from losing their humanity in their darkest hour as they struggle together to stay alive.
There’s no release date for The Tomb yet, but it will hit theaters in 2013 and I’m definitely more interested in it than I am in The Expendables 2, which I expect will be tons of guns, blood and punching without any story to speak of.
[via WSJ]
