Two 'Escape Plan' TV Spots: Sly and Arnold Imprisoned in the Hyper-Clink

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Two 'Escape Plan' TV Spots: Sly and Arnold Imprisoned in the Hyper-Clink

Unfortunately, we don't live in a world where Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger are starring in the Batman vs. Superman movie. But we do live in a world where the two remnants of a more muscular age are teaming up for their first proper two-hander, Escape Plan.

Two new TV spots from Escape Plan demonstrate that, far from putting on tights, Stallone and Schwarzenegger are reliving their glory days, when cinematic heroes didn't need powers, just guns both literal and figurative.

Academy Award nominee Stallone and former California Governor Schwarzenegger have, of course, traded quips in both installments of the former's The Expendables franchise. Schwarzenegger will once again quote decades-old catchphrases with an appearance in The Expendables 3, currently in production.

His role as Trench in those movies is little more than winking cameo stuff, but in Escape Plan, Schwarzenegger is the second lead. Stallone stars as Ray Breslin, a man who makes his living exposing security holes by breaking out of prisons all over the world. When he ends up in an experimental futuristic jail of his own design, though, Breslin is the victim of a set-up, abandoned among the prison population. To break out, Breslin teams up with a charismatic inmate (THIS GUY) who will help him find his mysterious enemy and regain his freedom.

Watch both TV spots below, thanks to Yahoo! Movies.

Director Mikael Hafstrom isn't an old hand at action, but is instead best known for spooky horror tales 1408 and The Rite. Maybe that's why the guards in this slick future prison sport such creepy masks.

Obviously, no movie can consist of only Stallone and Schwarzenegger. Hafstrom has put together an eclectic group of thespians to surround the stars, from Amy Ryan to Vincent D'Onofrio, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Jim Caviezel, Vinnie Jones, Sam Neill, and Faran Tahir.

Escape Plan is scheduled to open nationwide on October 18th.

Here's the official synopsis and poster:

Escape Plan follows Ray Breslin (Stallone) who is the world’s foremost authority on structural security. He’s analyzed every high security prison and has gained a vast array of survival skills. But all Ray’s ingenuity and knowledge are about to be put to work in the most challenging test he’s ever faced: escaping from the master prison of his own design.

Schwarzenegger, in the role of Church, plays a complex inmate with multiple shades of grey. He’s the guy who fights to keep the prisoners from losing their humanity in their darkest hour as they struggle together to stay alive.