10 Trick Castings That Totally Fooled You

Any child of the eighties or nineties used to wonder who’d win in a fight; Arnie or Stallone? After all, it was Rocky against The Terminator, Rambo versus Commando, Oscar versus Kindergarten Cop. It never happened, though, and by 2010 the odds of it appeared remote.

Then the movie gods smiled on us, confirming that Arnold would appear alongside Stallone in throwback action film The Expendables. The mind raced at the possibilities, and the trailers played up their inevitable showdown.

Only it never happens. Arnold was still Governor at the time, so he worked on the movie for precisely six hours. After thirty years of hype, their scene amounts to two minutes of lame in-jokes, which was a bitter disappointment to their fans.

They later teamed up for two more Expendables movies and Escape Plan but watching two sixty-something dudes trade friendly barbs wasn’t the explosive experience audiences were hoping for, or the one The Expendables sold them.