Sure, with Arnold Schwarzenegger making cameos in Sylvester Stallone‘s Expendable movies seeing the two biggest box office action heroes of the 1980s on screen together isn’t the novelty it once was, but this is much different. Escape Plan (formerly known as The Tomb) stars Stallone as an expert at breaking out of prisons who is placed in the world’s most secure prison against his will in order to make sure it is inescapable. In order to break out he’ll have to find some help… so he’s pretty lucky that his macho buddy Schwarzenegger is also on the inside. In other words, this is a full-on teaming of the two action icons.
The first trailer exclusively debuted on IGN today and gives a great first look at the two in action, which definitely puts a different spin on their typical roles because this falls a bit into thriller territory. Really the only negative thing I can say about it is that 50 Cent looks completely out of place as some kind of behind-the-desk pencil pusher.
Escape Plan was directed by Mikael Håfström (1408) and is set for an August 18 release. Let’s hope it makes some money because as I’ve pointed out before both men could use a non-Expendables hit. Check the trailer out below:
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