THE EXPENDABLES Event Series Will Cast TV Icons in Lead Roles

Get ready, action fans: The Expendables are heading to the small screen. Sylvester Stallone's film franchise full of muscled-out 80s action movie stars is getting an event series from Fox that is looking to cast former TV badasses in the lead roles. Stallone and film producer Avi Lerner will executive produce the series, while Greg Coolidge (Ride Along) & Kirk Ward and NCIS: LA showrunner Shane Brennan will write it.

The series is described as "a fun action drama that unites iconic TV stars as a new team of highly-skilled heroes who are on a mission to stop a dangerous terrorist." So what TV icons are they looking at? Well, no casting decisions have been made yet, but there are a number of former TV stars who would likely jump at the chance to be a part of something that will undoubtedly have a lot of marketing behind it. Deadline, who brought us the news of the event series, suggests the following: 

24‘s Kiefer Sutherland, Magnum P.I.’s Tom Selleck, Xena‘s Lucy Lawless, Quantum Leap‘s Scott Bakula, Alias‘ Jennifer Garner, A-Team‘s Mr. T and Strike Back‘s Sullivan Stapleton and Philip Winchester.

Remember, even if those actors sign on, they won't be reprising their roles from those former shows. If they were, that would mean that all of the TV series they were on took place in the same universe, which would be pretty damn ridiculous. The films didn't have Stallone playing Rocky and Schwarzenegger playing The Terminator, so the TV version will likely have its own set of ludicrously-named characters created specifically for the show.

Will the TV cast one day unite with the film gang in an Expendables movie? That's just speculation for now, but you know that thought has crossed the minds of everyone involved in this so far. The third film under-performed after pulling together the franchise's largest cast yet, so the gimmick of seeing a bunch of old guys kicking ass is losing its appeal. Maybe if they included a bunch of familiar faces from the TV landscape, it could generate some more interest.

What do you think? Would you watch an Expendables TV show? Who should be on it?