{"id":226106,"date":"2026-05-10T02:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T02:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226106\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T02:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T02:11:08","slug":"the-action-queens-who-should-get-to-make-an-expendables-reboot-jonass-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226106\/","title":{"rendered":"The action queens who should get to make an Expendables reboot &#8211; Jonas&#8217;s blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a person at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@krigsvetare_som_fan\/post\/DYIcNcGjqr-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Threads<\/a> who raised the question of who could be involved if a female version of Expendables was made. I thought a bit and came to the conclusion that it&#8217;s a damn fun idea, there are enough lead-heavy actors with a past in action and geek culture to make it a really cozy action fest with plenty of cheesy one-liners and some younger talents that could also fit.<\/p>\n<p>The core team of the first film included six people, so I have now made my own\u00a0interpretation with six people for the core squad and a villain&#8230; as well as three cameos that can appear on the same premises as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke did &#8211; listed in alphabetical order so no one will get the idea that they are ranked.<\/p>\n<p>The core team<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Betty Gilpin<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Carrie-Anne Moss<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Charlize Theron<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Michelle Yeoh<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Sigourney Weaver<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Uma Thurman<\/p>\n<p>The villain<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Angelina Jolie<\/p>\n<p>Cameos<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Jamie Lee Curtis<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Linda Hamilton<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Lucy Lawless<\/p>\n<p>Which women had been in your version of female Expendables?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/480213_34.jpg\" alt=\"The action queens who should get to make an Expendables reboot\" width=\"620\" height=\"460\" class=\"blogphoto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know&#8230; there are missing names like Gal Gadot, Gina Carano, Lucy Liu, Michelle Rodriguez and Scarlett Johansson. But it&#8217;s Expendables &#8211; so of course there will be sequels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a person at Threads who raised the question of who could be involved if a female&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-226106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}