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TIL Sylvestor Stallone, alongside Expendables 1 to 4, had also planned a spin-off with Sigourney Weaver leading highly-trained female mercenaries (including Milla Jovovich, and Cameron Diaz) to topple an evil dictator bent on world domination. It was titled, quite appropriately, 'The Expendabelles'

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