The Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth is the latest to join Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables 2, as Taylor Lautner turns the chance down...
There’s a bevy of aging action stars lining up for duty once more in The Expendables 2, and the latest casting announcement for the film has seen the recruitment of someone younger to help bring the average age of the cast down.
The movie is being headlined by the likes of Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis and Dolph Lundgren, and there aren’t many spring chickens amongst that lot. Not that it matters, of course: one glance at the box office receipts for the first film demonstrates that age is no barrier a lot of the time to successful action cinema. Rightly so, too.
But, it seems, the script for the sequel requires at least one younger recruit. And it’s Liam Hemsworth who’s going to be joining the plane to Eastern Europe, ahead of the movie’s imminent shoot.
Hemsworth, the brother of Thor star Chris, is next to be seen in the big screen adaptation of The Hunger Games, and he’s signed up to play a sniper in The Expendables 2. He had been down to appear in the first film, before his role was chopped from the final script (thanks to Moviehole for the heads up on that).
Meanwhile, we’re hearing that Taylor Lautner had been offered a role in The Expendables 2 as well, but that he’s passed on the project.
More on all of this over at Variety, here.
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