50 Cent is able to go well with up for the primary time in Expendables 4, however he’s not as comfortable together with his promotional poster.
“👀WTF did we run out of money? Why my head look like it ain’t connected to my body,” the rapper, 48, wrote by way of Instagram on Wednesday, August 23. “I bet they are gonna make @officialslystallone look great. SMH #bransoncognac #lecheminduroi.”
Expendables 4 dropped the celebrities’ character posters earlier this month for the likes of Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Sylvester Stallone, Megan Fox and 50 Cent (actual identify Curtis Jackson). In every pic, the movie’s stars stoically posed of their military-grade uniforms whereas trying menacingly on the digital camera.
The Expendables — written and directed by Stallone, 77 — premiered in 2010, following a workforce of elite mercenaries employed by the CIA to overthrow a dictator. The action-packed thriller spurned two extra sequels in 2012 and 2014, respectively. Expend4bles premieres subsequent month, the place a “new generation of stars join the world’s top action stars for an adrenaline-fueled adventure,” per a abstract of the flick.
“Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world’s last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table,” the logline reads. “But new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give ‘new blood’ a whole new meaning.”

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Statham, 56, Lundren, 65, Couture, 60, and Stallone will all reprise their roles from the primary motion pictures — and shall be joined by many new members of the workforce. 50 Cent, Fox, 37, Andy Garcia, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Jacob Scipio and Levy Tran are set to go well with up for the primary time.
While 50 Cent is finest generally known as a musician, he made his large display screen debut in 2005’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ reverse Joy Bryant, Terrence Howard and Viola Davis. The “In Da Club” rapper additionally starred as Kanan Stark on STARZ’s Power franchise, of which he’s additionally an govt producer.
“The pacing is very similar, so it doesn’t lose the energy or the thing that people were attracted to about Power, but the difference is the two worlds Tariq is going through — between the university and the street,” 50 Cent solely instructed Us Weekly in August 2020 of spinoff Power Book II: Ghost. “It’s very similar but then very different. The new characters that blossom are exciting. I think a huge demographic of people that will be reached through them. I kind of feel like there’s a possibility for us to go up in viewership with Mary [J. Blige] and these new people coming onto the show.”
50 Cent additionally crafted a number of of the sequence’ most memorable musical moments. “I’m writing some material to put out, I just release pieces,” he instructed Us. “The thing is they have it be up to standard so they fill in the hole. The last place that they spend the money in the budget is for the music. I won’t allow them to put a filler in. I’m like, ‘Who’s that? Nobody knows who it is, and nobody will buy that on iTunes right now. So that should not be on my TV show.’ So I give them extra stuff laying around that I can put into those moments.”
The Expendables 4 premieres in theaters on Friday, September 22.
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