Wasn’t Sasha Mitchell or Jeff Speakman taking calls from Sly? This just
seems so… random. How on earth does John Travolta end up in the all
action-star sequel to “The Expendables”?
Stallone. Lundgren. Statham. Willis… Travolta!?
Granted, Stallone and Travolta are close buddies from way back –
Stallone directing Travolta bomb “Staying Alive” and all. And at one
stage Travolta, who was still packing some mean muscle as a result of
the full-on training regiment Stallone put him through on the ’80s dance
flick, was going to be a part of the “Rambo” sequel, at Sly’s request;
for whatever reason, that didn’t come off.But even in 1985 it would’ve
been a bit of a joke to have Danny Zuko joining Sly for a “Rambo”
two-hander, in 2011, it’s unimaginable to think of the portly Oscar
Nominated star of “Grease” and “Pulp Fiction” playing some kind of
hardened action-hero in a testosterone-fueled boys movie. Unless, of
course, Sly’s going to bench Travolta and have him play some sort of
teddy bear general or, on the opposite end of the scale, a corrupt
senator.. or something.Or maybe he’ll be reprising the role of Tony
Manero, for a third time, this time joining ‘The Expendables’ on a
mission to infiltrate an illegal human-traffiking ring that’s operating
out of a New York dance hall?
Now don’t get me wrong – I’m a huge Travolta fan; from “Fever” to
“Grease”, “Blow Out”, “Perfect”, “Pulp Fiction”, “Get Shorty”, “Broken
Arrow”, “Face/Off”… “The Boy in the Bubble”… but I just don’t see where
he’d fit in “The Expendables 2″. The audience beseeching such a movie
don’t care for JT – they care for those that can’t crunch heads and
pummel 200-pound gorilla – they’re not so much fans of song-and-dance
men.OK, so maybe in 1996, back when Travolta was in his semi
action-movie man mode, doing things like “Face/Off” and “Broken Arrow”,
he could’ve been a fit but there’s just been one too many “Lucky
Numbers” and “Lonely Hearts” since…
