Having shown a certain pal-ship with The Stath at The London premiere of The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke has now joined his **13 **cast-mate on the roll-call for Sylvester Stallone's new venture The Expendables.
He will be just one more bit of rough to add to the greatest action cast ever put together, which includes Hollywood's reigning kung-fu master, Jet Li, unstoppable force Dolph Lungdren, ultimate fighter Randy Couture and other recent recruit Forest 'Ghost Dog' Whittaker (who signed up earlier this week to play their CIA liason ), in addition to Statham and Stallone himself. Plus Sir Ben Kingsley is in talks to join in the action too, which would bring the combined starring-cast age to a mighty 403 years of awsomeness.
Rourke has openly admitted a debt of gratitude to Stallone, who gave him his first stab at a return to high-profile acting back in 2000 when he cast him in Get Carter.
The film will focus on a band of - yep you guessed it - expendable mercenaries, who are secretly sent in to do the dirty job that no one else would take, of overthrowing a South American dictator. Rourke will play the arms dealer who becomes involved with the team.
Stallone, who wrote the script for The Expendables has been scouting for locations, and now that his cast looks pretty much perfect, he is looking for the Brazil based shoot to kick off in March.