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8 Expendables 4 Hints That Sylvester Stallone’s Barney Will Die


Even though Sylvester Stallone’s Barney is the heart of The Expendables franchise, there’s a strong possibility he’s going to die in Expendables 4.
The Expendables started with Sylvester Stallone’s Barney Ross forming the team, but there have been recent hints that he could die in The Expendables 4. The latest installment in the action franchise is directed by Scott Waugh and finds Barney seeking out Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), and the rest of the gang for their biggest mission yet; stopping a ship full of nuclear explosives from igniting a war between the United States and Russia. Several new characters, including Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s team member Easy Day and Megan Fox’s CIA agent Gina, will round out the cast.

Based on the trailer and everything known about The Expendables 4, it’s a possibility that Stallone is looking to exit the franchise. Not only does he have other projects that he’s working on simultaneously, but his passion for getting all of these revered action legends together may not be as strong as it was thirteen years ago. Details from the trailer and comments made by Sly himself suggest that his future with the franchise is limited, and Barney Ross could make a valiant sacrifice to pass the torch of The Expendables franchise to a worthy successor.
8Sylvester Stallone Has A Smaller Role In Expendables 4 Than Before

Sylvester Stallone has been one of a handful of actors who have appeared in every Expendables movie, with most installments including a rotating cast of famous action heroes including Jet Li, Harrison Ford, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Based on the trailers for The Expend4bles, Barney doesn’t appear to be in it as much as in previous films, except in the beginning to recruit Lee and then sparsely throughout the action sequences that take place on the ship and base. Barney seems to be mostly used as a framing device, with Statham leading most of the action sequences.
7Jason Statham Is The Expendables Franchise’s Lead Now

Like Stallone, Jason Statham has appeared in every movie in The Expendables franchise and has slowly taken his place as the lead. Barney and Lee are good friends and lean on each other’s judgment and leadership, so it’s not very surprising that Barney would entrust the group with Lee (even if not all the other members would agree with him). Statham certainly has the action pedigree between The Transporter, The Meg, and the Hobbs and Shaw movies to lead a franchise.
6Expendables 4 Is Sylvester Stallone’s Final Movie In The Franchise

Back in 2021, Stallone quit and rejoined the franchise, announcing on his Instagram that he was looking to step away from the Lionsgate series because it was “in capable hands” without him as far as the cast was concerned. As far as the creative side of things was concerned at the time, he wasn’t a fan of the direction the movie was taking with the then-current cohort of writers and directors, with changes often being made at the last minute that didn’t meet with Sly’s approval. It’s possible that he could change his mind as the driving force of the franchise since the beginning, but he may believe it’s finally time to move on.
5Sylvester Stallone Filmed An Emotional Expendables 4 Farewell Video
On his last day of filming The Expendables 4, Sylvester Stallone took to his Instagram to convey just how much the shoot had meant to him. “It’s always bittersweet,” said the star, “you know, when something you’ve been so attached to, I guess, since… Well, now it’s been about 12 years? And ready to pass the baton on to Jason [Statham] [and] his capable hands.” Sly went on to explain that he hoped audiences appreciated the human element he always tried to bring to his stories, and it’s the sort of poignant farewell message that indicates his final day of filming was emotional because Barney has permanently left the franchise.
4Stallone Already Hinted At Barney’s Fate In The Expendables 3
Barney Ross always had a way of waxing poetic even during the most intense situations, and in The Expendables 3, the warrior poet got very serious about his future. At one point he addressed the team and said, “As I see it, if we keep this life up, the only way this thing ends, for all of us, is in a hole in the ground, and no one giving a s***. Now if that’s the way I’m supposed to go out, I can live with that. For me.” This speech indicates that he’s accepted, and maybe even desires, to die in the line of duty, because he’s taken accountability for the dangerous life he’s chosen, and wants to die with honor and dignity.
3Stallone Is Busy Filming The Second Season Of Tulsa King
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Trench Mauser is a franchise character missing from The Expendables 4, and he wasn’t concerned – the Austrian Oak was busy shooting FUBAR, his hit show on Netflix. Not to be outdone, Sylvester Stallone starred in his own series for Paramount+ called Tulsa King, about a mobster who relocates to Tulsa, Oklahoma and starts a new operation with hilarious results. His series has already started production on season 2, and Stallone has been very vocal about how grueling his first stint on television has been, so if Barney dies in The Expendables 4 Stallone is free to concentrate all of his energy on Tulsa King season 2.
2The Family Stallone Can’t Work Without Sylvester Stallone
As of 2023, Sylvester Stallone has starred alongside his wife and daughters in The Family Stallone, a reality television series that looks at the inner workings of his life caught on candid camera. So far, the docuseries has had one season on Paramount+ that has been consistently popular, and a second season has already been picked up, which means he’ll probably start shooting in and around the second season of Tulsa King to mirror the format of the first one. Stallone already explained that shooting a television series is infinitely harder than shooting a film, so two television series will definitely require the Italian Stallone to go the distance.
1It Took 10 Years To Make The Expendables 4 & Stallone Won’t Wait
Stallone leaving Expendables means he has no franchises left, but considering that The Expend4bles took ten years to make, it’s probably for the best. Stallone is 76 years old, and while in tremendous physical condition, may not be able to do the same action-oriented roles when he’s 86. Killing Barney’s character in The Expendables 4 would take the pressure off Stallone to have to come back for another Expendables movie when the toll of performing his own fight sequences would be too dramatic.

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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