Overview
- Eclectic Pictures and Hollywood Ventures Group announced the tentatively titled Expendabelles at the Cannes market with support from Lionsgate.
- The film is framed as a late-1990s origin that introduces a new team of elite female operatives within the Expendables universe.
- Producers Heidi Jo Markel and Glenn Gainor are leading the project, with Sandy Climan, Joe Smith, Nelly Kim, Julie Kroll, Stephen R. Foreht, and John Yarincik aboard as executive producers.
- The team says the project is in the packaging phase, as they court distributors, financiers, and key creative talent, and no director or cast has been announced.
- This push follows a 2014 effort that stalled under Millennium Films, as recent female-led action titles like The 355 and the 2019 Charlie’s Angels reboot struggled at the box office.