Escape Plan (2013)
- Before Sylvester Stallone was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
- The incredible score for Escape Plan was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a hidden easter egg referencing Mikael Håfström's previous film in the background of the opening scene.
Escape Plan is a 2013 American action thriller directed by Mikael Hafstrom, the first film to pair Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger as co-leads. Stallone stars as Ray Breslin, a structural security expert who tests the integrity of maximum-security prisons by getting himself incarcerated and then escaping. When Breslin is double-crossed and locked inside a secret, off-the-books facility called the Tomb — a glass-and-steel nightmare designed using his own book on prison security — he must team up with fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer, played by Schwarzenegger, to escape a prison specifically designed to be inescapable.
The pairing of the two biggest action stars of the 1980s, 25 years after their rivalry defined the genre, was the film's primary draw, and both actors brought genuine charisma to their roles. Jim Caviezel's sadistic warden Hobbes was a memorably cold antagonist. Escape Plan earned $137 million worldwide on a $54 million budget.
