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How would you recast the Expendables trilogy


EX1
Keep
-Sylvester Stallone
-Jason Statham
-Jet Li (Wouldn't be my first choice as I wish to have seen Jackie Chan on the team, but Li wasn't too bad)
-Dolph Lundgren
-Terry Crews (Again, like Li, he wasn't Sly's original choices as both Wesley Snipes and 50 Cent were offered the role, not bad choices, Michael Jai White could have pulled it off, but Terry was way more memorable than Randy Couture's character)
-Mickey Rourke
-Steve Austin
-Eric Roberts
-Gary Daniels
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
-Bruce Willis

Recast
Randy Couture: I respect Couture as a UFC fighter but not as an action star, I felt that his role could have been someone like Mark Dacascos, Michael Jai White or Scott Adkins or hell maybe Steve Austin.

EX2
Again I would keep the original main players, along with Schwarzenegger, Willis, Van Damme, Chuck Norris and Liam Hemsworth

Recast
Yu Nan: I feel like her role should have been given to a well known female action star like Charlize Theron, Michelle Yeoh, Kate Beckinsale, or Lucy Liu.

Scott Adkins: while it was nice to see him there, didn't do much but fight Statham, which had potential, and would have rather have seen him as part of the Expendables team.

EX3
Would keep the original main players, along with Ford, Snipes, Gibson and Banderas.

Recast
Kelsey Grammer: While I had no problem with his performance in the film, I feel like his role should have been given to an established action star like Clint Eastwood, Nicolas Cage or Kurt Russell.

Kellan Lutz, Ronda Rousey, Glen Powell and Vic Ortiz: Didn't like these guys and I felt that they should went for actors slightly older than them, like swap Rousey with Carano and for the others give those roles to guys like John Cena and Iko Uwais

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Perfectly acceptable.

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