Female ‘Expendables’ Gets Its First Star!

The film still doesn’t have an official title, but today it got its first star. Variety was first to break the news today that Gina Carano, MMA fighter and star of 2011’s Haywire is the first name attached to the film.

Carano is now attached to a few titles currently in production. She’s set to appear in the upcoming Fast and the Furious 6 as well as something called In the Blood.

It sounds like producer Adi Shankar was set on Carano pretty early on:

I don’t know how I’m supposed to make a movie that is supposed to be the female version of ‘The Expendables’ without Gina Carano in it. It would be like making Twix without caramel or Jamba Juice without jamba.

I wonder who else we’ll see attached. Carano is much younger than a lot of people were anticipating. Will the film be a mix of younger and older stars, or will we miss out on the classic action heroines completely? Whatever the case is, we’ve got our eyes on this one!