It seems like the cast of The Expendables are sometimes treated as replaceable as the characters they play.
In the first movie, Sylvester Stallone told FHM Magazine he broke his neck while wrestling with Steve Austin and had to have a metal plate surgically implanted in his neck to fix it.
In the second film, one stuntman died and another was critically injured after an explosion scene didn’t go as planned.
The surviving stuntman sued the film’s producers, Millennium Films, in 2012 claiming the stunt was “recklessly staged”.
Actors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Stallone were also in the hospital at the same time for shoulder surgery due to injuries from the second film.
The crew probably thanked their lucky stars Jason Statham was an Olympic diver back in the day after a stunt on Expendables 3 went terribly wrong.
While shooting a scene in Varna, Bulgaria, the brakes on a truck Statham was driving failed resulting in him driving straight into the Black Sea. Statham coolly “got out, swam to the top and the truck was gone”.
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