4/23/13 - Patrick Hughes is set to direct The Expendables 3, the latest installment of franchises presided over by Sylvester Stallone. Hughes met with Stallone and the Millennium Films brass last weekend, and he will start work on Expendables 3 later this week. Production begins mid-August.  Source: Deadline.com

8/13/12 - Producer Avi Lerner is already looking ahead to the next installment of The Expendables 3 by locking in Nicholas Cage, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  "We’ve got Nicolas Cage to play one of the characters," Lerner said.  The producer also is considering a number of other action icons to join Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris.  “We’ve approached Clint Eastwood to be one of the guys," Lerner says. "We're talking to Harrison Ford. And we want Wesley Snipes when he comes back from prison."