Arnold Schwarzenegger Passing on Expendables 4
Hot on the heels of the news that Sylvester Stallone has departed The Expendables franchise, Arnold Schwarzenegger has stood by his action buddy and said, no Stallone, no Schwarzenegger!
Stallone, who is the franchise’s main creative force, passed on The Expandables 4 due to creative differences, and, with that vital component missing from the franchise, Schwarzenegger can’t see much point in continuing.
“There is no Expendables without Sly. I would never do the movie without him, no," he told Entertainment Weekly.
It doesn’t get much clearer than that. Schwarzenegger told EW that he hasn’t seen a script for Expendables 4 and doesn’t even know if there is a script. The actor then addressed his overall feelings about the Expendables series and mentioned that, like a lot of people, he wasn’t a particularly big fan of the compromised Expendables 3:
“You know, I think the first and second one were terrific. But, the third one, I thought my part was not written well. It was also not playing well in the movie, as far as I was concerned. Maybe other people believed differently. But I didn’t believe that I had any value in the movie. I love the franchise, by the way. I think it’s a spectacular franchise, The Expendables. I think that Sly has good ideas, what he wants to do with it, and I think if they write a really good script [in] which my part is very well-developed, I would do it. If not, then I won’t do it.”
So there you have it, no Stallone, no Schwarzenegger, no movie.
