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"ExpendaBelles" -- Millenium's spin-off of "The Expendables" -- has found two scribes; "Legally Blonde"'s Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. The project wants to "show the feminine side of the mercenary business," but will be going much younger with its female version. The median age of "The Expendables" was 57. So far they've got 30-year old Gina Carano ("Haywire") and 32-year old Katee Sackhoff ("Battlestar Galactica"). EARLIER:
Sounds like a great idea. There's just one tiny problem. In what universe will Hollywood produce a film about a bunch of aging female action-stars with a median age of 57? Most men, when presented with the concept of kick-ass women in action, can't help but think in terms of babes like 34-year-old Michelle Rodriguez. But the whole "Expendables" idea is about casting older--yes, senior--established action stars in an ensemble. It's about reminding us they can STILL kick butt.
Consider the age of the main players in "Expendables" 1 and 2: Chuck Norris: 72; Sylvester Stallone: 66; Arnold Schwarzenegger: 65. Mickey Rourke: 59; Bruce Willis: 57; Dolph Lundgren: 54 and Jean-Claude Van Damme: 51. At 44, Jason Statham and Jet Li are the two babies of the group. The playing field for men and women in Hollywood has never been equal, and certainly not in the action genre. It's tougher to round up a group of kick-ass women who can wield a gun, fight and star in an action film and/or TV series. But it's not impossible. Given the inequalities that have only recently started to change for women in action films, we've lowered our age range --but only to 35.

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