Brittany Murphy was cast in the new Stallone movie The Expendables a little while ago. The movie stars Sylvester Stallone, Jason Satham, Jet Li, Forest Whitaker, and Mickey Rourke. Brittany was set to play Mickey Rourke’s girlfriend, and seeing as her career is lacking at best right now, it was set to be her comeback movie. Especially with Mickey Rourke’s star rising, playing opposite him would have been a great move. But now it seems that she has been written out of the script entirely. The news comes from the movie’s poorly written official blog, written by some publicist for the movie.

[S]o Church…there is a scheduling conflict that is being worked out. The script went through a re-write and Brittany Murphy’s character was deleted. there’s no teaser trailer yet but we do have 60 seconds of BTS footage I was hoping to post but there is some debate as to whether that helps or hurts the marketing and publicity plan by peaking interest too early. I don’t understand that thought process – I see it differently…but I don’t call the shots. So we shall see or rather you shall see, hopefully.

[from Ethelmae’s Blog via Crazy Days and Nights]

As you can see from the blurb, the blog is terribly written, for one, and for the other, the deletion of Brittany’s character is given as a tiny side note. Either Brittany did something really bad (her acting perhaps?), or she wanted to get out of the script. It’s difficult to change a contract that late in the game.

I doubt that it was Brittany who wanted out, though she is a little crazy so you never know. According to her Wikipedia page, she has an album coming out this year – just another actress trying to be a singer. Though I did like the song she released with Paul Oakenfold, “Faster Kill Pussycat.” Maybe a singing career, rather than The Expendables, is Brittany’s future career.

Brittany Murphy and her husband, Simon Monjack, are shown at Fashion Week on 2/5/08. Credit: WENN.com