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Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts previously costarred in "The Pope of Greenwich Village" (1984).
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Steven Seagal was asked to play a cameo but turned it down due to negative connections with producer Avi Lerner.
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The first Sylvester Stallone film that he starred in since Rocky IV (1985) (also with Dolph Lundgren) to gross $100 million in the U.S.
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Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren) comments to Paine (Steve Austin), "Need a face lift pretty boy?", a tongue in cheek reference to Austin's early wrestling career where Steve Austin went by the name "Stunning" Steve Austin.
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When Barney Ross and Lee Christmas arrive at the island, they hand their passports to the officer. Both passports list the actual birthdays of Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham.
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The folding knife Tool throws at the target when he and Christmas first compete is a Cold Steel Espada.
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Jason Statham liked the motorcycle he rode in the film so much, he bought one in real life.
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Jason Statham starred in Death Race (2008), a remake of Death Race 2000 (1975) which featured a young Sylvester Stallone in one of his first starring roles.
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Due to time constraints, Sylvester Stallone didn't actually get to listen to Brian Tyler's score until the film was completed.
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This could have been Brittany Murphy's final film. However Sylvester Stallone cut her character from the script before anything was filmed.
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What Toll Road says to Gunnar at the very end of the movie ("Whenever it doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger, brother!") refers to the title of the 1989 CD by Bruce Willis.
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Terry Crews is cast alongside [Rocky IV](/category/5464/Rocky-iv) (1985) actors, Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa) and Dolph Lundgren (Ivan Drago). In the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris (2005), Crews played Chris' father, Julius, who is a fan of the Rocky (1976) movie franchise.
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The movie reunites three pairs of former co-stars, Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren from Rocky IV (1985), Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts from The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), and Jason Statham and Jet Li from The One (2001), and War (2007).
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In the film you can see that Stallone might have had some plastic surgery. Look close at his right eyebrow arch then compare it to his film Assassins. In the latter film is more pronounced.
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Steve Austin and Terry Crews previously appeared in the The Longest Yard (2005).
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When they first get to Vilena, Barney quips to Christmas "Spanish? Who are you, Zorro?". Antonio Banderas who famously played Zorro in two Zorro movies, joins the cast in its second sequel, Expendables 3.
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Wesley Snipes was offered the role of Hale Caesar but couldn't accept because, due to his tax problems, he wasn't allowed to leave the United States without the court's approval. The role was taken by Forest Whitaker and rewritten for Whitaker, but he was forced to leave the film due to a scheduling conflict. The role was then offered to rapper 50 Cent who turned the role down to focus on his music career. After a few days, Sylvester Stallone decided to cast former NFL player Terry Crews in the part. In 2014 (after finishing his prison sentence), Snipes ended up appearing in "The Expendables 3".
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Dolph Lundgren described the film as "an old-school, kick-ass action movie where people are fighting with knives and shooting at each other."
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