Who Shot MambaI will get to the important issue of the Who Shot Mamba? iPhone app being available tomorrow. (Click here to go get it in the iTunes Store – it’s 100% FREE.)

In the meantime, old friend Bjorn of Half Broke Hotel shared an article with me about one of my most anticipated films of this year, The Expendables.

The whole thing is pretty amazing, including at least one instance of Sylvester Stallone calling Ivan Drago “bro”.

Then there’s this part.

It features some of the biggest names of the genre – including Arnold Schwarzenegger, 62, Bruce Willis, 54, Dolph Lundgren, 52, Mickey Rourke, 57, Jet Li, 46, and Jason Statham, 37.

It also stars Brittany Murphy, who died in December of a heart attack.

Of course her death isn’t funny, but the article is all about how horrific the stunts were, the “tough legends” that have banded together, and how Stallone fractured his neck during the shoot.

If you read it all the way through, the placement of that sentence and the context makes it seem like she died of a heart attack during the shoot because she couldn’t handle how intense the shoot was.

Am I wrong.

 
  • BrianLauvray

    I didn't get that from the art-ee-kul at all.

  • http://brian23.com Brian

    Well I do choose to read things how I want or something.

  • Sam

    Mickey Rourke is one of the biggest names of the genre?

  • BrianLauvray

    Mickey Rourke is starring as the new villain in Iron Man 2 so that lends the notion some creedence. He was action-y in “The Wrestler” and was Merv in Sin City, action-y role…

  • http://brian23.com Brian

    Yeah but he's not an action icon of a certain era – this movie at perfection would've been the Magnificent 7 via action icons of the 80s/90s:

    Stallone
    Arnold
    Willis
    Van Damme
    Seagal
    Jet Li
    Snipes (questionable)

    Still – I will see this as soon as humaly possible.

  • http://twitter.com/_dannyb_ Danny

    I think if you add Hulk Hogan (in flourescent spandex) instead of Snipes you've got yourself a box office smash

  • atr

    I read somewhere (Wikipedia, and Wikipedia is ALWAYS right!) that Snipes, Seagel and Van Damme were offered parts but they all turned them down.

  • atr

    I read somewhere (Wikipedia, and Wikipedia is ALWAYS right!) that Snipes, Seagel and Van Damme were offered parts but they all turned them down.