News has come through today that
Kelsey Grammar, him of
Cheers and
Frasier fame, is joining the cast of
The Expendables 3 instead of
Nicolas Cage. He will, apparently, play the part, earmarked initially for
Cage, of Bonaparte, an ex-mercanary who help the team out.
I give you a moment to let it sink in.
Now there are a few bizarre things about this news, not least of which has to be that
Nic Cage actually turned down a film role! A periphery glance at his recent work on IMDB shows you how much of a rarity that is.
The other bizarre thing is the tons of action actors, yet to be put into a role, that could've done this and would've been better suited:
Steven Seagal, Kurt Russell, Roddy Piper, Jeff Speakman, Jeff Wincott, Billy Blanks, Pam Grier, Sigourney Weaver, Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Carl Weathers, Sho Kosugi, Gene Hackman, Timothy Dalton, Roger Moore, Don 'The Dragon' Wilson, Fred Williamson, Liam Neeson and even
Grammer's old
Cheers colleague,
Woody Harrelson!
I think
Grammer is a lot of fun in
The Simpsons, 30 Rock and even
Frasier back in the day and if he was narrating the film then it wouldn't be such a shock but as an old mercenary helping out these 80s action stars, I am not so sure.
Ex3, with all the weird news we've had so far, is going to have some surprises in store for certain, I think.
This announcement comes off the back of
Robert Davi's surprise casting as well.
Davi is more obvious, of course, with his
James Bond bad guy heritage but let's hope that he doesn't turn
Ex3 into another
Bad Pack
The other news that emerged this week, from the cool and funny lips of
Terry Crews no less, is the story that, the legend that is,
Jason Statham narrowly avoided death, or at least injury, on the set of
Expendables 3 when a truck he was driving failed to stop and plunged into the Black sea.
Terry Crews told the story to
Jay Leno on
The Tonight Show saying that
Statham simply swam out from the truck, leaving it to sink into the water, and was back to work later that day.
This is the second water and
Statham related stunt-gone-wrong incident on
Expendables 3 that has been reported in as many months. I am not sure if they are the same story but the first one stated
Statham did a pond based stunt, earmarked for a stunt man, and ended up going to hospital with water in his lungs but this telling of this, possible, second incident by
Crews, seems to have the Britkicker seemingly strolling out of the water unharmed and heading back to work.
I believe the second story more,
Statham, hasn't spent time in hospital in his life. He heals himself using man sweat and awesomeness.
- The Kick Ass Kid
win an AWESOME grindhouse action film with
THE AFTER MOVIE DINER!
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