{"id":2305731,"date":"2026-03-01T00:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2305731"},"modified":"2026-03-01T00:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:12:16","slug":"sylvester-stallones-star-studded-action-franchise-was-inspired-by-a-terrible-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sylvester-stallones-star-studded-action-franchise-was-inspired-by-a-terrible-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvester Stallone’s Star-Studded Action Franchise Was Inspired By A Terrible Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sylvester Stallone<\/a>‘s 2010 film “The Expendables<\/a>” (which he originally wanted to be a comedy) was more about its gimmick than its premise, plot, or characters. The story followed a group of super-capable mercenaries frequently employed to enact military-style raids on the nests of international baddies. The mercs, nicknamed the Expendables, were all ultra-masculine, hard-spittin’, over-muscled tough guys who seemingly shared the same “boys will be boys” life philosophy, and valued bullets and beer. The plot involved … I don’t know, pirates or something? Something about war profiteering? The plot is the least memorable part of “The Expendables<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The part everyone remembers, of course, is its stunt casting. Stallone<\/a> assembled a panoply of recognizable male action stars,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sylvester Stallone‘s 2010 film “The Expendables” (which he originally wanted to be a comedy) was more about its gimmick than its premise, plot, or characters. The story followed a group of super-capable mercenaries frequently employed to enact military-style raids on the nests of international baddies. The mercs, nicknamed the Expendables, were all ultra-masculine, hard-spittin’, over-muscled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2305732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2305731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sylvester-Stallones-Star-Studded-Action-Franchise-Was-Inspired-By-A-Terrible.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305733,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305731\/revisions\/2305733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2305732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}