Screen: Whispers

By John Hill on November 12, 2008 3:37 PM |

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Sylvester Stallone may look more like beef jerky than beefcake these days, but he’s still capable of packing a punch when he wants to.

So action fans will be drooling at the prospect of his latest direct-and-star escapade The Expendables, in which he teams up with The Transporter’s Brit star Jason Statham and martial arts legend Jet Li.

Due to begin shooting in Costa Rica and Louisiana early next year, The Expendables follows the no-doubt cute-and-cuddly adventures of a team of mercenaries deployed to assassinate a South American dictator.
Bring popcorn.

What do you get when you mix the star of Desperado with the director of Con Air?

A biopic of surrealist artist Salvador Dali, apparently.

Antonio Banderas is on board for Simon West’s pet project Dali, which focuses on the painter’s sex-and-scandal years in America.

Another Dali project, Ashes To Ashes, is currently awaiting release.

Sure, he’s big. But Jack Black has never been this big.

The deafening whirlwind of Tenacious D fame is reportedly set to play the lead role in the film version of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.

The eponymous Gulliver is a travel writer who stumbles upon the island of Lilliput, whose denizens are a little on the short side.