Bruce Willis was set to reprise his role of Mr. Church, at a salary of $3 million ($750,000 per day for four consecutive days). When he demanded $1 million per day instead, Sylvester Stallone and the producers refused, and he left the film. Within three days, Stallone was able to get Harrison Ford to replace the Church role as a new character. Fords short notice quip, as used in the trailer, alludes to these events (which were well publicized long before the film premiered). While shooting an action scene in a truck Jason Statham almost suffered a fatal accident when the truck fell to the sea after brakes failed. Sylvester Stallone tried to get Wesley Snipes to play the role taken by Terry Crews in The Expendables (2010). Crews went on to play Hale Caesar after Snipes declined due to legal matters related to his tax-evasion charges that prevented him from leaving the United States without the courts permission. Wesley Snipes got the role as Doc shortly after his release from prison. Although top billed, Jet Li has less than five minutes of screen presence. In addition to his role of main villain, Mel Gibson was offered the chance to direct the film but he declined. When Toll Road (Randy Couture) asks Doc (Wesley Snipes) why he got locked up Doc sarcastically replies: Tax evasion. In 2008 Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion. He served from 2010 to 2013. This film marks many reunions for a number of the principal actors outside their Expendables roles. Terry Crews first film role was in The 6th Day (2000) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, who co-starred with Sylvester Stallone in Escape Plan (2013). Stallone starred opposite Antonio Banderas in Assassins (1995), who appeared in Machete Kills (2013) which featured Mel Gibson. Gibson headlined Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) which co-starred Jet Li in his first American role. Li later starred in The One (2001) and War (2007) with Jason Statham, who was in Chaos (2005) with Wesley Snipes, who starred opposite Stallone in Demolition Man (1993). Stallone wrote, directed and starred in Rocky IV (1985) featuring Dolph Lundgren, who starred in Blood of Redemption (2013) featuring Robert Davi. Davi was in Raw Deal (1986), starring Schwarzenegger. A copy of the film was leaked online three weeks before the release date. The film was downloaded 189,000 times in the first 24 hours after the leak. Sylvester Stallone offered a supporting role to Jackie Chan but Chan refused because he prefers to play a leading role. In the first drafts of the screenplay Antonio Banderass character is named Matador (spanish for killer). After Banderas agreed to play the role he made several suggestions for the character. One of them was to change his name to Galgo (spanish for greyhound). As his character in the film, Harrison Ford is a skilled pilot in real life. In fact Ford has conducted some search-and-rescue missions, just like is character does the film. Arnold Schwarzenegers character twice quotes his previous films, Get to the chopper from Predator (1987) and I lied from Commando (1985). 75 of 76 found this interesting | Share this In one scene Antonio Banderass character sings El novio de la muerte (Bridegroom of Death). That song is the official hymn of the Spanish Legion, an elite unit of the spanish army. In real life Banderas was made honorary member of that military unit in 2013. Dwayne Johnson was considered for a role. Arnold Schwarzenegger worked a little more than a week on the movie. (On the first film Schwarzenegger worked half a day, and on the second film he was on set for four days.) When he is asked about the whereabouts of Church (portrayed by Bruce Willis in the two previous films) Max Drummer (Harrison Ford) answers that Hes out of the picture. This is an in-joke about the fact that Williss character was written out of the film and replaced with Fords character. After Mel Gibson was cast as Conrad Stonebanks, aussie director Patrick Hughes suggested the character have an australian background. Although Gibson was born in the USA, he spent most of his youth in Australia. Walter Frith is watching...
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