Arnold Schwarzenegger and some of Hollywood's other elder statesmen of action movies hit the red carpet in London on Monday (13 August) for the UK premiere of 'The Expendables 2'.<br/> <br />The film is a sequel to Sylvester Stallone's 2010 box-office success and it sees the Rocky and Rambo actor joined by a host of 1980s action stars for a revenge mission motivated by the death of one of their number.<br/> <br />Alongside Stallone and Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme also star, with the latter cast as the villain of the piece.<br/> <br />The movie marks Schwarzenegger's return to full-time movie making after the end of his seven-year tenure as governor of California.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE Arnold Schwarzenegger saying (English):<br/> <br />"I am very happy, I was very happy to be in the movie business before, I was very happy to be governor of the great state of California and I am happy now to be back again in the movie business. That's the great thing about my life - it's a joyride. It's like going from one thing to the other with great ease and it makes it fun, it makes life spicy."<br/> <br />As for those who have suggested that the likes of Stallone and Schwarzenegger, both in their sixties, are a little too old to be performing the kind of stunts a modern action movie demands, Arnold said that he plans to always "do my best until I drop dead."<br/> <br />'The Expendables 2' will be released in the UK on August 16.
