Yes, that's the real world justification for making the movie (although half the cast aren't 80s action stars), but I was quite obviously talking about the in-universe premise of who The Expendables are. They're mercenaries. Making another movie with the same or a similar name and set in the same universe would probably use the same premise.
And nothing you describe above is exclusive to male action stars. There are plenty of female action stars from the past and present they can use.
Oh, BS. Hollywood doesn't make big budget action movies if they don't expect to make their money back on it. It has nothing to do with PC, it has to do with thinking they have a potentially bankable concept.
So it's perfectly reasonable, in the context of the thread (itself based on little more than a rumor), to seriously discuss a take-off poster that copies The Expendables, but to say anything negative or even skeptical about the idea (such as that it doesn't sound like a logical vehicle for the first-ever female Best Director winner) is to make rash, irresponsible assumptions? Nice double standard we've got here.
I didn't say anything about your opinion being "irresponsible." It's not like it affects anything. I just disagreed with it, because yes, it was a bit hasty to already declare it a bad movie with so little information to go on. And it doesn't compare to people making suggestions of who they'd like to see in such a movie in the slightest. That's not a value judgment on a film that doesn't even exist yet, it's an expression of something we'd like to see.
My point was that even a movie that has a silly premise can be executed well and that it's premature to call it bad before there's even a script written, based solely off a very broad (no pun intended) idea.
Take the two incarnations of The Wicker Man, for instance. Both movies have the same basic, fairly ridiculous, premise (although the modern one makes some poorly thought out changes), but the 1973 version is a cult classic because it was executed well, while the 2006 one is a laughable, so bad it's good exercise in a bear-suited, woman-punching Nick Cage destroying his reputation as an actor.
Also, don't you think the first female best director winner, who makes action films for a living, might enjoy a chance to make a movie full of strong female characters as action heroes? Seems right in her wheelhouse, even if it's not a highbrow concept and more reminiscent of her earlier films (though The Hurt Locker wasn't that highbrow to begin with anyway despite the nomination; nor is her upcoming film Zero Dark Thirty about killing bin Laden).
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Bigelow prob first choice for director but doubt would do. Writers: Cody Diablo, Tina Fey (could inject much needed humour), Leslie Dixon (Limitless, Thomas Crown remake), Caroline Thompson.
