An All-Female The Expendables Being Scripted

**GregMO ROberts** · 08-18-2012, 07:36 AM

A female version of The Expendables – surely you can’t be serious? Well, seems they are very serious – and stop calling me Shirley.

Variety is reporting that an all-female Expendables is getting some traction and that Adi Shankar’s 1984 Private Defense Contractors has optioned Dutch Sothern to write the script.

Of course, since we don’t have a script, a director, a budget or a start date, we can only speculate (and cross our fingers) for some of the more kick-ass women in recent film history. Collider had some fun in their speculation with these suggestions:

• Linda Hamilton – A go-to action star from her Terminator days and a stint on Chuck.
• Sigourney Weaver – Her career in the Alien franchise gives Hamilton a run for her money.
• Carrie Fisher - She can handle a blaster, so why not a grenade launcher?
• Uma Thurman - All that Kill Bill training has gone to waste in recent years.
• Milla Jovovich – Resident Evil aside, I’ll just say: The Fifth Element.
• Angelina Jolie - She’s come a long way since Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and let’s not forget her driving skills from Gone in 60 Seconds.
• Michelle Rodriguez - Although she’s killed in almost as many movies as Sean Bean, Rodriguez is among the toughest of this bunch.
• Sarah Michelle Gellar – It’s getting a little thin here, but Gellar did a convincing job as Buffy the Vampire Slayer for a number of years.
• Summer Glau - From Firefly to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Glau could make for an interesting newcomer.
• Carrie Anne Moss - Let’s bring back that leather from The Matrix.

Some other possible names include Eliza Dushku, Zoe Bell, Gina Carano and, of course, Lucy Lawless.

**astraton** · 08-18-2012, 07:52 AM

Actually, Carrie Fisher already knows how to use a grenade launcher. Remember Blues Brothers.

Problem with this idea is that women don't age that well in movies. Ouch! May pay dearly for that comment.

**GregMO ROberts** · 08-18-2012, 08:06 AM

Yes, you will. Breeanimal is logging on now.

**BreeAnimal** · 08-18-2012, 08:09 AM

so sly and arnie have aged well in comparison to jovovich or weaver? i would argue not. yes, carrie fisher is a bit of a fat recovering drug addict now, but for every carrie fisher you throw at me, i can counter with a val kilmer.

astraton is off my christmas card list.

**BoDuley** · 08-18-2012, 11:06 AM

Cynthia Rothrock can easily go toe to toe with any of these ladies.

**astraton** · 08-20-2012, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by BreeAnimal

so sly and arnie have aged well in comparison to jovovich or weaver? i would argue not. yes, carrie fisher is a bit of a fat recovering drug addict now, but for every carrie fisher you throw at me, i can counter with a val kilmer.

astraton is off my christmas card list.

Touché, I think Weaver looks stunning still as does Geena Davis, who you forgot. It would still be a hard sell. I actually love an all female cast kicking ass in an action movie.

It's something I'm trying to make into a movie as we speak.