Since the 80s of the last century, Stallone and Schwarzenegger have been smash hits as Hollywood's two major muscular action actors, and these two muscular men have been at their peak in the era of Hollywood's industrial model transformation, and the Hollywood film market has begun to expand globally.

Under Stallone's leadership, there was a frenzy of fitness throughout the Western world, with the muscle-forging activity called "bodybuilding", and the men wanted to be the Rambo who bared his chest muscles, armed with heavy machine guns, and ran rampant in the jungle, and some even took steroids and injected silicone for it.

But now the muscular man has been out of people's sight for a long time, and the male stars who have been popular in the past ten years have always been cream students, thin and slender British beauties Hugh Grant and Jude Law, Tom Cruise, who has a white face and a strong momentum, and the new male favorites are the bloodsucking beauty Robert Patterson, who has a whiter complexion and a weaker temperament, and Xiaozha, who is healthy and sunny.

This "The Expendables" is a blockbuster work after Stallone's "Rocky" and "First Blood", Stallone once again conquered the audience with his bloody courage and violent hormones, and saw them recall how good and brilliant the action movies of the year were.

In fact, Mark is not like Stallone or other directors, he doesn't care about the difference between action movies and science fiction films, romance movies, and horror movies, movies that can make money are good movies, and he is not like Stallone, who has big ambitions, is in his sixties, and has the ambition to revive this action movie, he just wants to make money, make more money, he doesn't mind making horror movies, romance movies, superhero blockbusters, and now he puts down his body to make idol movies.

You look at Scorsese, "Infernal Affairs" is slightly better at the box office, but I am worried that it will be rejected by the Oscars because it is too commercial.

Mark saw that "The Expendables" could still make some money, so he peddled this plan to Stallone to make an action blockbuster that gathers nine action superstars and pays tribute to all the action movies of the 80s and 90s. The selling point is feelings?

If there is an audience who grew up watching the "First Blood" series all the way, then he will be no stranger to "The Expendables", as a movie that focuses on muscles, explosions, and gunfights, the biggest function of the story of "The Expendables" is to connect those action scenes, which are basically the same as those movies twenty years ago: a single-handedly hero of the United States, facing the challenge of an evil enemy, fighting into many crises, maintaining justice in his mind, saving his conscience, and by the way, saving a beautiful woman who needs a man's care.

As an action movie that has been weakened to the maximum at the story level, the biggest selling point of "The Expendables" this time is the collective nostalgic outing of the nine action stars, but in fact it is impossible, not only is Stallone no longer powerful, Mr. Governor and Bruce Willis only made a cameo (the scene between the two of them was filmed in only six hours), and even the action star Lee Lian is suspected of messing around. The actor who is really responsible for the action scenes in it is actually Jason Statham, the "king of Hollywood B-movies" in recent years, he is the youngest actor in this film, but he is also thirty-eight years old.

For a large number of male audiences over the age of 30, the main purpose of their influx into the theater is estimated to be nostalgia and farewell, as a fixed movie-watching consumer group in the film market in the 80s, this male-dominated audience group over 30 years old, although it is gradually retiring from the main group of film consumers who are getting younger and younger, but for "The Expendables" In such a male hormone movie that focuses on nostalgia and farewell, these slowly aging audiences proudly tell critics and the media with a staggering box office figure of 270 million worldwide that old men never die, they just quietly go away.

This is only Stallone has this kind of appeal, can gather a large group of old butts under his banner at a relatively reasonable price, and persuade those superstars to join the cameo, otherwise Mark would have left them alone.

Mark's proposal really hit Stallone's G-spot, he listened to it very well, was very interested, and was willing to take the job.

Stallone's "Rocky" was distributed by MGM, but the vulgar results of the subsequent films made him switch to Carlock Films, this "First Blood" and "Mighty Mountains" are works in cooperation with Carlock, which Carlock Films was the most vibrant and energetic film company at the time, and the first work in history with a production budget of more than 100 million yuan "Terminator 2" was produced by them, James Cameron can be said to be popular by them and went to the world, "First Blood 2" was created by Sylvester Stallone and Cameron, known as the top ten action movies in history, plus " True Lies", Cameron has earned a reputation as the king of action.

It's just that this overly ambitious Carlock invested in the pirate blockbuster "Cut Throat Island", which caused a tragedy at the time, causing Carlock to go bankrupt, and its company was acquired by MGM, MGM itself is going downhill, Stallone's cooperation with him is not pleasant, but after MM became the owner, MGM has the most prosperous appearance, and has launched several popular and popular works in a row, the success of "Rocky 6" has restored Stallone's confidence in MGM, which has created conditions for cooperation between the two sides.

Today's MGM, with the best-selling "Chainsaw", "The Hangover", "Youth Musical" and other best-selling series in hand, is not the old lion who relied on "007" to hang his life, but full of vigor and vitality, "Rocky" and "First Blood", which used to lean on the Great Wall, are not as important as before, and action superstars like Sylvester Stallone are not as popular as before.

Stallone is not convinced by this, he thinks that he is not old, and he can act in a classic action movie for them at any time, these people know that when they are old guys have not yet entered the nursing home, they still have to watch them when it comes to action movies.

This is actually just a vague idea in his heart, and it has not yet entered the plan on paper, but Mark proposed that this is the real tickle that tickles him, and the support of the media group bigwigs means the possibility of success.

If it is up to him to prepare, this fund is the key, he himself has so much money, but Hollywood commercial film directors and producers have a rule, they will not put money into the work themselves, they take the salary and get a share, but they will never put money into the work.

Stallone was born in poverty, but through unremitting efforts to become a generation of action superstars, like the protagonist of his masterpiece "Rocky" series, is the most inspirational "dream of the United States", is the unyielding representative of civilian heroes in the social flow, inspiring people living in the tribulation to move forward bravely.

Even if the corners of his eyes droop, his expression and slurred pronunciation caused by slight facial paralysis have brought Stallone the most nominations and awards in history, but Stallone is by no means a "simple-minded, well-developed limbs" action star, he is versatile, he is a representative of all-round filmmakers who can write, direct, and act, and he plays the "Rambo" that film critics disdain , but for the first time, he showed the muscular male beauty to the people of the United States, and inspired the aesthetic instinct of the people of the United States for men, which had been suppressed for many years, in a rather domineering way, and opened the trend of male bodybuilding in the eighties of the United States.

In all of his films, Stallone has shown his never-bowed personality, and his performance in the field of action movies has made him a model of action star, and an iconic figure in contemporary American cinema.

Stallone created a brilliant performance of action movie stars, and followed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and other action movie stars, bringing action movies into the most prosperous 80s of the twentieth century.

For this action superstar, Mark is very appreciative, in fact, "before" when he watched movies, he watched action movies by Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Willis and others, and he was really not interested in those award-winning literary films.

He was very happy to have the opportunity to work with the legend and hosted a luncheon with Giselle in his office apartment to discuss the project.

Now the project "The Expendables" is an idea with Stallone, and it is already a paper plan with Mark, but Mark means that the Colombian side will provide funds and be responsible for the promotion and distribution.

As for the production, the production company on Stallone's side is in charge, he serves as the producer, director, is responsible for writing the script, forming the crew, recruiting actors, and the final editing is handled by Stallone and Mark, and the Colombian side only sends financial personnel to supervise the use of funds, and will not intervene and interfere with the daily operation of the crew.

Mark has the final editing rights, which can prevent this Stallone from being a demon for a while, and make another version, Mark participated in the editing, Stallone was also convinced, Mark, the hand of the commercial film god, is well deserved, his six works, the average of North America is 220 million US dollars, the lowest is 30 million, the highest is 365 million, the average score is the first in the world, no one dares to deny Mark's fierceness at the box office, Spielberg, Lucas, Cameron, more than it, because he has worked for more than 20 years, and in time, Mark will definitely catch up.

Stallone is very satisfied with such conditions, this should be the best first-level condition, Spielberg is just like that, 80 million US dollars to let him make an action movie, it is indeed a big deal, now dare to throw so much money at an action movie, few people dare to do it, since he Stallone has this opportunity, he is naturally letting go, maybe he can make an excellent action movie and break a way for his brothers.