Longtime action megastar Arnold Schwarzenegger has shown no signs of slowing down over the last decade and change, even after a seven-year tenure as the Governor of California. Along with a leading role in Netflix’s FUBAR and a return to the Terminator saga in 2015 and 2019, Schwarzenegger took on an uncredited role as Trench in 2010’s The Expendables. He then reprised the role in 2012’s The Expendables 2 and 2014’s The Expendables 3, which featured him alongside a laundry list of Hollywood’s biggest action stars (including the late Chuck Norris).
The Expendables 2‘s cast also included then-young up-and-comer Liam Hemsworth, best known at the time as the younger brother of MCU star Chris Hemsworth. After playing disenchanted ex-SASR sniper Billy the Kid alongside Schwarzenegger, Hemsworth went on to even bigger roles, continuing his tenure in the Hunger Games franchise and taking on another sequel in 2016’s Independence Day: Resurgence. Now, Hemsworth and Schwarzenegger are set to join forces for a second time in a film that just got picked up by one of the biggest studios in the business.
Deadline reported that Amazon MGM Studios has landed the rights to a new action movie titled The Kellys, which will star Arnold Schwarzenegger and Liam Hemsworth. This film will be available to stream on Prime Video, but it does not have a production or release timeframe yet. This film will center on a disgraced New York City cop named Jack Kelly as his wife, Molly, is taken hostage by terrorists inside an old armory building. This will lead to him joining forces with people described as those he fears the most, his family, to save her.
This new action movie will be directed by Brad Peyton, known for his work on multiple movies with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, such as 2018’s Rampage and 2015’s San Andreas. He will work off of a script written by Tze Chun, whose most notable work is seen in Gotham and Once Upon a Time.
While the rest of the cast and characters are still being filled out for The Kellys, this will give Schwarzenegger and Hemsworth another exciting action movie in which they can combine their talents together. It will be their second time working together after first linking up on The Expendables 2, with this movie expected to feature both of them heavily and give them more screentime together than their first efforts did.
Leave a Reply