Three years back, we were also excited about a certain development that was happening in the Twitter-verse. Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone and our Bollywood superstar Salman Khan were becoming pally on Twitter. First Salman Khan sent out a series of tweets in admiration of the Hollywood actor, who has a common interest in building great physique. Then Sylvester Stallone replied saying, "Would like to thank the super talented Indian superstar SALMAN KHAN the Compliment he Tweeted! We should do an ACTION FILM together!" And then he said, "Mabye the New EXPENDABLES"

Needless to say, Salman Khan fans couldn't contain their excitement over this Has Sly just offered this huge action movie to their Bhai? At that time, the discussions for the fourth Expendables movie was in the infancy stages and since it featured popular action stars of the '80s and '90s, Salman's casting rumours made sense.

However, Salman Khan himself shot down the rumours when he had said,  “I like to work in India a lot and I like to deliver dialogues in Hindi. Suddenly after Hindi dialogues for so many years if I say dialogues in English, it would look a bit weird. I'm very happy here. They (Hollywood) work extremely hard but we don't need to work that hard here." Perhaps, the dismal failure of his first and only international movie, Marigold, stung him hard.

However, with Salman Khan tweeting about Sylvester Stallone's upcoming movie, Creed II and Sylvester returning the favour by promoting Race 3 twice (once where he mistakenly promoted Bobby Deol's poster as Salman's), the rumours of Salman in Expendables 4 have been reignited. At the point of writing this, the movie is still in development stage, with no other actor, apart from Stallone confirmed in the cast. There were reports that the movie will begin shooting in the mid-2018, but Stallone busy with Creed II, we are not sure if this will happen.

Also, Salman Khan himself has his hands full with Race 3 following which he will start work on Bharat, Kick 2 and Dabanng 3.

Watch this space for any updates if this rumours come true.

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