A team of the world's most dangerous and highly-trained mercenaries go on a mission to South America to overthrow and assassinate a powerful, evil dictator and his army, who have been causing devastation, chaos and torture for the last twenty years. Cast Sylvester Stallone as Barney "The Schizo" Ross, a veteran Expendable and leader of the team. Jet Li as Bao Thao, expert at hand-to-hand combat. Jason Statham as Lee Christmas, second in command of the team. He is a former S.A.S. soldier and expert at Close Quarters Combat using knives. Dolph Lundgren as Gunnar Jensen, a Swedish expert at sniping. He later gets fired and kicked out from the expendables and is hired by Monroe to kill the Expendables. Jensen hates Bao Thao and fights with him frequently. Terry Crews as Hale Caesar, Bao's best friend, a weapons specialist. Eric Roberts as Monroe, a corrupt C.I.A. agent who is preventing the Expendables from killing General Garza. Mickey Rourke as Tool, a former Expendable, now an arms dealer and tattoo parlor artist/owner who helps the Expendables. Steve Austin as Dan Paine, Monroe's bodyguard and a former Marine. Charisma Carpenter as Lacy, Lee Christmas' fiancee. David Zayas as General Garza, the evil dictator. Randy Couture as Toll Road, demolitions expert. Lauren Jones as Cheyenne. Gary Daniels as The Brit, General Garza's main henchman and a former Expendable who wants to go to war and get revenge against the team for kicking him out. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, General Garza's henchmen. Amin Joseph and Senyo Amoaku as the leaders of a group of Somali pirates that challenge the Expendables. Gisele Itié as Sandra, a young native Brazilian woman. Nick Searcy as Agent Will Sands, a C.I.A. agent who helps the Expendables. Arnold Schwarzenegger in a cameo role as the retired Lieutenant General of the Expendables. Bruce Willis as Mr. Church, the man who hires the Expendables Production began on March 3, 2009 and filming began on March 28 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and other locations included Mangaratiba, Niteroi, Guanabara Bay, and Parque Lage. Filming ended April 25. Filming continued later on May 11 in Elmwood, Louisiana and Downtown New Orleans, Louisana which included French Quarter, St. Peters Street, Fort Mccomb, Claiborne Avenue and the Interstate 10 Overpass. Filming officially ended on July 1, 2009. There will be a pick-up that will have a scene filmed with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Downtown, Los Angeles, California. On June 2, West Coast Customs Street Customs have built 3 customized 1955 Ford F100s for Sylvester Stallone for the film. One was built for a crash scene, the second for green screen, and the third for Stallone to keep. The budget for the film was going to be in excess of $100 million, but was lowered to $70 million. The budget drop would cause some expensive action sequences to be cut. "The Expendables has a seventy million-dollar budget," says Stallone's co-star Dolph Lundgren,[2] "and it's an old-school, kick-ass action movie where people are fighting with knives and shooting at each other." Casting Jean-Claude Van Damme was personally offered a role by Stallone, but turned it down. This reportedly led to Dolph Lundgren being cast instead although it is not confirmed whether it was the same part. The role accepted by Forest Whitaker was originally conceived as a role for Wesley Snipes but later rewritten for Whitaker. Due to a scheduling conflict prior to filming, Whitaker was replaced by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson for the role of Hale Caesar. He was then replaced by former NFL player Terry Crews. Steven Seagal was asked to play a cameo role, but turned down the offer due to negative experiences with producer Avi Lerner. Hispanic actor Danny Trejo was rumored to play Emmanuel, but on June 15, he revealed that he was not cast for the role. Instead, he is in the works with Robert Rodriguez's Machete. On May 29, 2009, the script under went a few re-writes which ultimately excluded Brittany Murphy's character. Sandra Bullock was rumored to have a role in the film, but revealed that she did not even know about the project. Despite the news, she did express interests in working in another action film and would like to work in the film depending on the storyline. The role of the man who hires the Expendables, Mr. Church, was very difficult to cast. Initially offered to Schwarzenegger, he declined in favor of a smaller cameo due to his current political career. The role was then offered to Kurt Russell whose agent replied that he was not interested in "ensemble acting at the moment." Stallone spent several months after principal photography determined to find a big action name for the part. Rumors suggested that the role had been offered to friend and fellow former Planet Hollywood co-owner Bruce Willis, who was busy filming of A Couple of Dicks. Willis finally confirmed on August 17, that he will play Mr. Church and that his scene will feature himself, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Music Composer Brian Tyler announced on his official website that he has been hired to write original music for the film. Tyler previously worked with Stallone on Rambo in 2008. Rating Producer Avi Lerner has reported that the film will be cut down to two versions, a PG-13-rating edit and an R-rated version, both of which will be screen tested to see which one will be officially released. Lerner is considering cutting down the violence because of the success of recent PG-13 action films such as Live Free or Die Hard. Lerner has claimed that Stallone's previous film Rambo could have been even more successful, had it not contained such extreme violence and gore. Sequel Due to the high level of anticipation of the online community and overwhelming positive reaction to early test footage, producer Avi Lerner has reported that there is already talk of making two more sequels, and a longer franchise, depending on just who makes it to the end of the first film intact SOURCE : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expendables_(2010_film)