'Expendables 2' Sylvester Stallone Calls Film a 'Minor Miracle' (Video)

In a new behind-the-scenes featurette, the
action star says that getting so many all-star
actors together is a feat that may never
happen again. Sylvester Stallone, one of the biggest action stars
in Hollywood, knows that the hardest challenge of
making an action film like Expendables 2 was not
the stunts, the guns or the explosive action scenes, but rather, the complicated dance required to get so many major action stars to be show up on the same day.

“Everyone in this movie has had a very stellar
career,” he adds. “To get them all together at one
time is a minor miracle.”
Stallone, who directed the first Expendables film,
returns to star alongside an all-star cast featuring
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jason Statham, Yu
Nan, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris,
Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Liam
Hemsworth, Bruce Willis and Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
“It makes it very special because you’re never,
ever going to see this again,” Stallone says in the
new clip.
While Stallone has handed the directing reins over
to Simon West, the actor will star as Barney Ross
who, along with his group of mercenaries, is out for
revenge after one of their own is killed.
“Most of the actions films today are very, highly
technical, and so the Expendables films got to bring
back some of that old-time rock 'n' roll,” Stallone
says.
The rest of the brief, one-minute clip shows the
actors performing stunts and fights, sometimes in
front of green screens, and driving some pretty
heavy machinery.
In one shot, Stallone is seen smoking a cigar on set
-- because, really, what else would you expect of
Stallone while hanging out on set?
The Expendables 2 opens in theaters on August 17.