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Expendables producers may be set to hail Caesar again after excluding Terry Crews’ character from the last installment in the long-running action movie franchise. In an interview with ScreenRant's Grant Hermanns for his Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Replacer campaign, Crews discussed his future with the Expendables movies, teasing his possible return now that Lionsgate has secured rights to the franchise. “I had a meeting at Lionsgate probably two months ago, and they kind of gave me the headlines that they're going to do some stuff with the Expendables,” Crews revealed. The Hale Caesar actor indicated that a lot of different options are on the table for upcoming Expendables-related content. “They were talking about TV projects, movies and spinoffs, different things like that,” he explained. Crews went on to discuss the industry’s current fixation on entertainment that helps audiences revisit the past. “Nostalgia is king right now,” he said. “We've got to go back to go forward. And I'm 100% down.” The Expendables star then talked about his experience on the movies alongside actors like Sylvester Stallone, and his belief that the series could have as long a life as another Stallone franchise: We didn't know what we were doing, and it took over the world. It was so cool. And I think there's room for more. There's got to be more, man! If you can get as many Creeds and Rockys as they got, you can get more Expendables. Caesar didn't die, so we got that. It's all good. Lionsgate confirmed last week that it had closed a deal with Millennium Media to acquire the rights to both the Expendables franchise and an upcoming Rambo prequel movie. Expendables 5 is not confirmed to be in the works after 2023’s Expendables 4 bombed at the box office, grossing just $51 million worldwide against a reported $100 million budget. The franchise overall has grossed $840 million worldwide. ScreenRant’s ranking of the Expendables movies put the fourth installment in last place, saying of it, “The lack of originality and fun makes it clear that the Expendables franchise has grown old and is in need of a massive reinvention.” Expendables 4 sits at 14% on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the least-acclaimed of all the franchise's movies. Hale Caesar actor Crews starred in the first three Expendables movies but was sidelined for Expendables 4. His expression of interest in a return comes after his franchise co-star Dolph Lundgren also said he would come back, on one condition. “If Sly's in charge, I think he's working on his version of another chapter with these guys. If he's in charge, then yeah, I'm sure it would be fun to work on it,” the Gunner Jensen actor told ScreenRant back in 2024.
