After breaking through withRockyin 1976, Stallone quickly realized the value of building up franchises.
The firstEscape Plancame at an interesting time for both Stallone and Schwarzenegger.
The sequel featured Ray and his friends trapped in a high-tech, futuristic prison that forces inmates to fight.
The sequel scored roundly terrible reviews, with Stallone himself later dubbing it “beyondawful.”
The Extractorsisn’t great either, but it’s a marked improvement on the dire second filmin the series.
It’s far more grounded and gritty and gives Bautista’s character a bigger role.
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Still, it received a tepid critical response, and there has been no sign ofEscape Plan 4entering production.
Arnie’s Emil Rottmayer is a kindly prisoner that Ray befriends and who aids his escape.
Escape Plan 2: Hades is the 2018 follow-up to Sylvester Stallone’s 2013 action film.
An action thriller film that stars movie action heroes, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Escape Plan follows Lawyer Ray Breslin, a security tester who enters a supermax prison to study its defenses. To accomplish the breakout, he’ll enlist the help of an inmate named Emil, a self-proclaimed hero who steals from the rich and gives to the poor.
Steven C. Miller takes over directing duties, and Dave Bautista joins the cast as Trent DeRosa.
Escape Plan 2: Hades is the 2018 follow-up to Sylvester Stallone’s 2013 action film. The sequel picks up years after the original and centers on Ray Breslin (Stallone) returning to the inescapable prison to find one of the missing team members of his security force. Steven C. Miller takes over directing duties, and Dave Bautista joins the cast as Trent DeRosa.
Escape Plan: The Extractors follows security expert Ray Breslin as he is tasked with rescuing the kidnapped daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from a formidable Latvian prison. When Breslin’s girlfriend is also captured, he and his team undertake a perilous mission against a sadistic enemy.
