Mickey Rourke and Sylvester Stallone are doing a movie together?

January 7, 11:05 AMMovie ExaminerJason Roestel

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I'm thinking these two gave up the make-up. 

And I'm not talking about a sequel to the 2000 remake of Get Carter. Nope. Lately Stallone seems like he's been prowling around the celebrity gym scene, hunting down actors with piles of meat on their arms. Forging an army of muscle men and prize fighters for a film project that would bring Governor Schwarzenegger to his knees, weeping tears of pure sugarless adrenaline.

The film project is of course Stallone's 2010 action flick The Expendables. And if you read this movie column at all you'd know that every tiny morsel of news about this movie sends me into full geek panic attack. I'm thinking that any guy who survived the epic hair-spray heavy months and years of the 80's might just feel the same way.

Here's a movie with Sylvester Stallone. His arch nemesis from Rocky 4 Dolph Lundgren. The two most talented students from the new school of Kung-fu cinema - Jet Li and Jason Statham. Add a couple of guys who are familiar with the real fighting arena, Randy Couture and Mickey Rourke. Plus Oscar winner Forest Whitaker just signed on for the flick... Damn. Is there really any other future action film that's bringing guns as big as this one? Doubtful.