{"id":30478,"date":"2013-09-17T20:41:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T00:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=30478"},"modified":"2013-09-17T20:41:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T00:41:16","slug":"the-next-action-star-to-join-expendables-3-is-kelsey-grammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/17\/the-next-action-star-to-join-expendables-3-is-kelsey-grammer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Action Star To Join EXPENDABLES 3 Is &#8230; Kelsey Grammer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KelseyGrammer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30479\" alt=\"KelseyGrammer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KelseyGrammer.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So if you were casting the next <strong>Expendables<\/strong> movie and Nic Cage turns you down for a role, who do you turn to? If you though outside of the box enough to name Kelsey Grammer, you might just have career as a casting agent in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/09\/kelsey-grammer-joins-beefcake-brigade-in-the-expendables-3\/#utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> is reporting that the former sitcom star will be joining the cast of Sly Stallone&#8217;s action actor ensemble sequel, playing &#8220;Bonaparte, an ex-mercenary who helps the Expendables in their mission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But if <em>Cheers<\/em>&#8216;s and <em>Frasier<\/em>&#8216;s fussy psychiatrist seems like odd casting for an action film, remember that he received some strong critical reviews for his much darker turn as a political powerbroker in the Showtime series <em>Boss<\/em>. It was the strength of that performance that led Michael Bay to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/01\/kelsey-grammer-to-be-tranformers-4-human-villain\/\" target=\"_blank\">cast<\/a> Grammer as a villain in the upcoming <strong>Transformers: Age Of Extinction<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Filming is already underway in Bulgaria on the action sequel which is scheduled for a August 15, 2014 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The actor takes on a role initially offered to Nic Cage.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/17\/the-next-action-star-to-join-expendables-3-is-kelsey-grammer\/\" title=\"The Next Action Star To Join EXPENDABLES 3 Is &#8230; Kelsey Grammer?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1120,5566],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-kelsey-grammer","8":"tag-the-expendables-3"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30478"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=30478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}