The Expendables 3 (2014)

Film Type:

Feature

Language:

English

Colour Info:

Color

Sound Mix:

Datasat Digital Sound, Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital

Camera:

Red Epic, Red Scarlet

Frame Rate:

24 fps

Aspect Ratio:

2.35:1

Stereoscopy:

No

Archival Source:

QubeVault

Taglines:

New team. New attitude. New mission.

Movie Connection(s):

Dubbed into: The Expendables 3 (Telugu)
Dubbed into: The Expendables 3 Humse Badhkar Kaun (Hindi)
Dubbed into: The Expendables 3 (Tamil)
Follows: The Expendables 2 (English)
Follows: The Expendables (English)
Followed by: The Expendables 4 (English)

Filming Locations:

Trivia:

One of the highlights of this movie was an epic fight scene between Gibson and Stallone.

This movie is set in Mogadishu, Somalia and then in fictional third world countries. However, many details world created by 200 people who worked on the CGI in Bulgaria at a studio facility.

Stallone was very particular about what the explosions and injuries should look like when done via VFX, and also paid a great deal of exacting attention to the amount of blood and wounds.

One of the longest action sequences in this movie, involves a big battle scene with a long camera pan and continues unabated for around 2 minutes without a cut.

This is the first ever movie in which Schwarzenegger and Ford shared screen space.

All the fight scenes have been done with pre-viz, so the actors can see how it will play out, and the team made sure to use each actors’ strengths to help craft each scene.

Antonio Banderas only agreed to be in the movie after all his conditions and alterations were accepted by Stallone.

Kellan Lutz played the role of John Smilee, the leader of the younger Expendables. The reason for the nickname is his character never smiles.

When Gibson showed up on set for this movie, he looked so powerful and big, that Sylvester Stallone and the rest of the team had to work extremely hard to build up their muscles to match him.

Patrick Hughes was filming a lingerie commercial on Bombay beach when he found out Stallone wanted to meet with him about directing The Expendables 3. His first meeting was supposed to be thirty minutes and it ended up being two and a half hours.

While discussing possibilities of the perfect villain, the topic of Mel Gibson came up. The idea of Rambo Vs Mad Max appealed to everyone, and Sylvester Stallone just picked up the phone and got Gibson and to do the role.

"Steven Seagal" was offered a role but he declined.

Lucas Till was considered for the role of Smilee.

Milla Jovovich turned down the role of Camilla due to her commitments on "Resident Evil 6" and "Cymbeline".

Milla Jovovich was considered for the role of Camilla.

While shooting an action scene in a truck Jason Statham almost suffered a fatal accident when the truck fell to the sea after brakes failed.

In addition to his role of main villain, Mel Gibson was offered the chance to direct the film but he declined.

Sylvester Stallone offered a supporting role to Jackie Chan but Chan refused because he want to play a lead role.

Nicolas Cage was considered for the role of Bonaparte before Kelsey Grammer was cast.

At one point Mickey Rourke was set to reprise his role of Tool from The Expendables (2010).