Caffeinated Clint
Sylvester Stallone’s latest is shaping up to be the frickin’ Sherman Klump of motion pictures… its cast just keeps getting fatter. Already on board “The Expendables”, Sly’s Dirty Dozen-esque action romp, are Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Robert Knepper, and Forest Whitaker.
Now the action icon tells Extra TV that Ben Kingsley may also be joining the cast of the pic.
When asked by the site whether the Forest Whitaker deal (Whitaker is playing the good-guy C.I.A agent) is as good as done, Stallone says it is and adds that they may be getting Oscar Winner Ben Kingsley (“Gandhi”, “Prince of Persia”, “Species”) too.
Might Kingsley be playing Church? The description does seem to fit.
Church is the man that hires the ‘Expendables’ (run by ‘Barney’ and ‘Christmas’, assumingly the characters played by Stallone and Statham, respectively) to go after General Garza (who essentially runs his own island – described as a human rights graveyard). He’s an older bloke, and has a connection to the young man who Garza has apparently assassinated. This is personal, in other words. He wants Garza killed and his island burnt down. Five million dollars does the trick.
