‘Expendables 4’ Trailer Sees The Expendables Look To Prevent “World War III”

“Terrorists have taken possession of nuclear missiles on a cargo ship off the coast,” warns Sylvester Stallone in the first trailer for Lionsgate‘s Expendables 4, released on Wednesday morning. “If these babies go off, it’ll be World War III.”

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The fourth title in the Expendables action franchise, which has grossed over $804M worldwide with past installments, Expendables 4 reintroduces viewers to Barney Ross (Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lundgren) and Toll Road (Randy Couture), the elite mercenaries who together make up the team known as The Expendables. Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, these four are the world’s last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. The new film will see them engage with new team members with styles and tactics of their own that will give the expression “new blood” a whole new meaning.

Joining the franchise’s core four in the pic slated for release on September 22nd are Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Jacob Scipio, Levy Tran and Andy Garcia.

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Scott Waugh (Need for Speed) directed from a script by Kurt Wimmer & Tad Daggerhart and Max Adams, which was based on a story by Spenser Cohen and Wimmer & Daggerhart. Producers on the film include Kevin King-Templeton, Les Weldon, Yariv Lerner and Statham.

Lionsgate most recently released the father-son comedy About My Father, starring Sebastian Maniscalco and Robert De Niro, on May 26th. Other films coming up for release by the studio prior to September include the Tim Story-directed horror comedy The Blackening (June 16), Adele Lim’s SXSW-premiering comedy Joy Ride (July 7) with Everything Everywhere All at Once‘s Stephanie Hsu, the horror pic Cobweb (July 21) with Woody Norman, Antony Starr, Lizzy Caplan and Cleopatra Coleman, and the war drama White Bird (August 18) marking Lionsgate’s follow-up to 2017’s Wonder.

View the new trailer and poster for Expendables 4 above.