Finch director Patrick Hughes handpicked by Sylvester Stallone to direct ‘The Expendables 3’
Finch director Patrick Hughes has been handpicked by Sylvester Stallone himself to direct the third installment of The Expendables.
Stallone’s quest to find the right man for the job was long winded, with talk of Mel Gibson, John Woo and even Stallone himself at one stage. Hughes caught Stallone’s eye with his 2010 western thriller Red Hill and Hughes’ involvement in EX3 was announced by Stallone on his twitter yesterday after a string of ‘tweet clues’ as to whom the new director was. Stallone has described Hughes as “freshness, class and much badass”.
Hughes, who just finished shooting the latest Bonds spot for Clemenger BBDO Melbourne, will jet off to LA this week to begin pre-production on the film which is expected to shoot across three countries from August this year.
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This is pretty much all types of awesome Pat. Congrats on your hard work mate!
Handpicked? Hope he’s not ticklish.
The good news, first big Hollywood feature. The bad news, Stallone, Willis, Schwarzenegger, Norris, et.al. Talk to Simon West. I think he’s still in rehab.
RIP Patrick Hughes.
Huge
This is amazing. Congrats Patrick.
That’s great, good for him. He’s not actually going to do it though right?
Expendables are items that get used and thrown away!
Great success story. Got chills reading that.
What a fuckwit you are. Here is a big piece of news for a great director, unrelated in any way to the petty bullshit and politics you are consumed by at your agency, and instead of congratulating the man, or better still shutting-the-fuck-up, you have to expunge your barely disguised and terribly ugly envy onto the Comments section of the CB blog for all to smell. Crawl away, you pathetic specimen, crawl away.
And to you, Patrick, my hearty congratulations!
Your so right! must be why Simon West then went straight into production on a Nic cage film
Then into another after that and has 3 others in pre production.
Wonderful news. Great director and a really lovely guy. Congrats Patrick.
Nooooooooooooooooooo………..
Wow, this just shows how bitter some of the commenters on this blog are. A TVC director gets a big break, being hired by a previous Oscar winner to direct some of Hollywood’s biggest stars and you act like it’s a bad thing. This is great news for Aussie directors. Well done, Patrick.
patty styyllllllzzzzzzz.
love. love. love.
Previous Oscar winner? Who?
Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars? When?
Well done Pat, truly wonderful news.
Great director, hard working bastard and one hell of a nice guy.
Good things come to good people.
NG
People can be really happy for Pat, those who know him and others who’re just familiar with some very good commercials work, and his maiden Aussie feature, but this ‘Expendables 3’ thing?
The $500 million franchise, this gang of fading action stars with huge egos and surgical faces, the blow-em-up machismo mixed with one-liner self-deprecatiing humour and wall-to-wall schtick?
Seriously, the good news is getting a big Hollywood film, but just as Cray-Dul said, the bad news has to be the fact that there are more IEDs waiting to detonate in making this picture than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined, and no small amount of career tightrope walking on Patrick’s part.
If it’s a hit, then it’s likely Sly’s hit in the industry’s view, and if it’s a miss, after the box office success of 2, along with a complete absence of anything positive to say by the critics, then it’s a career Death Valley.
@To 4:11PM was is so articulate in his wasting of Cray-Dul, this is an industry blog where people can post their honest opinions or their rants if they choose, but it’s not a wall post for man love letters and mate back slapping. Trust me, the hit that the Hollywood industry will give Mr. Hughes will be exponential compared to anything that’s written on the CBB. Wake up and smell the Botox, and don’t be so bloody precious. Show business isn’t for sissys.
“Rocky was the highest grossing film of 1976, and won three Oscars, including Best Picture. ”
None of the Oscars went to Stallone, and given that his greatest successes were 30+ years ago, your comment has proved the point of 10:23.
What Sylvester has won are any number of consecutive Razzys for the worst film/performance/etc. of the year.
Good luck, PH. You’ll need it.
Patrick Hughes, the director behind the Australian thriller Red Hill and the upcoming action ensemble sequel The Expendables 3, is, according to TheWrap, negotiating to helm The Raid, a big screen English language remake of Gareth Evans’ 2011 martial arts hit.
Brad Ingelsby, the screenwriter behind Out of the Furnace, is providing the screenplay, which will again tell the story of an elite SWAT team that becomes trapped in a tenement run by a notorious drug lord, his two highly violent martial arts killers, and a personal militia armed with machetes and machine guns. Stranded on the 6th floor with no way out, the SWAT unit must fight their way through the city’s worst to survive their mission.
Evans, whose sequel, The Raid 2: Berandal, hits theaters domestically March 28, will produce the remake alongside XYZ Films.
You can check out stills from the original The Raid (released domestically as The Raid: Redemption) in the gallery viewer below:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=115138