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Hell Yes! Katee Sackhoff Joins Gina Carano For Female Expendables

by Jill Pantozzi | 12:55 pm, October 6th, 2012


Has Hollywood finally gotten the power to read our minds? Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff has joined the cast of upcoming all-female Expendables-like film. I can already feel the ass kicking in my bones. 

There’s not a lot of info on this project yet. While director of The Expendables 2, Simon West, has said he’s planning on adding female action stars to the next outing of that franchise, this as-yet-unnamed project is being put together by Adi Shankar. Unknown Dutch Southern is on board to write but a director has yet to be chosen.

Variety broke the latest news and had this quote from Shankar to offer, “If you spend five minutes with Katee it becomes blatantly obvious that she would pwn most male action stars.”

Truer words were never spoken.

Sackhoff is best known (at least in our world) for playing Starbuck on BSG but has also had roles in the Bionic Woman reboot series, 24, and will play alongside Vin Diesel in the upcoming Riddick film. She’s currently voicing the character Bo-Katan from Star Wars: The Clone Wars and we recently found out she’ll be playing the mother of Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan in her first movie role after leaving the British series. That film is called Oculus and before you freak out, her part will take place in flashbacks.

Previously, Haywire star Gina Carrano was cast to lead the film. Shankar said, “I don’t know how I’m supposed to make a movie that is supposed to be the female version of ‘The Expendables’ without Gina Carano in it. It would be like making Twix without caramel or Jamba Juice without jamba.”  Meanwhile, Michelle Rodriguez told the press she didn’t think she had enough action experience to have be part of an Expendables-like project.

I couldn’t be more excited about this news, Shankar definitely made a wise decision choosing Sackhoff. Now let’s just hope he keeps going in the right direction.

(via /Film)

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  • Anonymous

    Michelle Rodriguez’s statement confuses me. She’s made her career in action movies and playing the tough girl. She’s certainly had more experience in action movies than Carrano.

  • Anonymous

    Awesome news! I was asking for her everytime an article about the project popped up. Still sucks that Simon West is the one directing but at least, she’s in there.

  • http://www.thenerdybird.com/ Jill Pantozzi

    He’s not the one directing.

  • Anonymous

    Dear Universe,

    Zoe Bell! Zoe Bell, Zoe Bell. In conclusion, Zoe Bell. I thank you.

    Sincerely, Hallah

  • http://twitter.com/lysana Brenda/Lysana/either

    C’mon, find a way to fit Lucy Liu in around Elementary. Please? Pretty please?

  • http://www.facebook.com/laura.truxillo Laura Truxillo

    Giiiinnaa Torrrres! Gina Torres Gina Torres! Pleeeeease?

  • http://www.facebook.com/laura.truxillo Laura Truxillo

    Her not wanting to be in it is disappointing and a little confusing, but from her statement, it seemed like she was thinking of it in terms of the actual Expendables movie, which was less about Awesome Action Is Awesome and more about “Several Action Heroes, many long past their heyday, do action things as an ironic but fond lookback on their careers.” It was about old dudes. And she’s the there yet, I guess. In her mind.

    I still really hope she reconsiders. She’s everyone’s first thought when it comes to Action Ladies.

  • http://www.facebook.com/englerp Engler Pascal

    One word (Well. one name actually): Cynthia Rockroth.

  • Anonymous

    Oh right, he’s directing The Expendables. My bad.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    Rather than do what I’ve been doing (and what most of us have been doing) and argue for or against an actor starring in a female Expendables film, I’d rather point out that while, yes, sometimes a gimmick works out and a movie does well and also sometimes doesn’t suck, chances are that when actors are thrown together simply because they’re popular, you’ll end up with The Mexican or Copout, not a surefire hit. They’re casting a film without a script for chrissake.

  • Life Lessons

    YAY!! And Michelle, dear, I am sorry but you are wrong. Get in this movie!!!

  • http://twitter.com/Pallister55 Thomas Davies

    Riiiight, so not actually the all-female “Expendables”, just ‘a similar production’. Would this be The Asylum’s “The Disposables”, perchance?

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