The Expendables III's world premiere is taking place in the UK capital tonight, with stars including Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger expected to be in attendance.
We're hoping for a full-on waltz up the red carpet...
Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Antonio Banderas, Kellan Lutz and Jason Statham attended a press conference ahead of the screening at the Corinthia Hotel in the capital this afternoon (August 4), where the Rocky star explained the movie's PG-13 rating.
To celebrate the third instalment of the action adventure, we're imagining a prequel by travelling back in time to bring you some classic photographs of the film's main stars.
So here are 15 heyday snaps of Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Snipes and Lundgren looking like young, bicep-bulging mean machines.
Be prepared...
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1. Arnold Schwarzenegger as a young whippersnapper bodybuilder back in 1967... The actor flexes his biceps and eye-wateringly explosive-looking pectorals in an advertisement for a German protein product.
2. Arnie shows off his sculpted torso and powerful thighs in a pair of floral trunks as he aptly poses near Muscle Beach in Santa Monica around '68.
3. Young bodybuilder Schwarzenegger wins a stone-lifting contest in Munich back in the late '60s.
4. Arnie casually lifts a barbell as he stands on the bottom of a pool and a topless woman swims past, circa 1977.
5. Arnie's pose and the Austrian Alps in the background really make this black and white portrait of the star.
6. Sly Stallone gives us an eyeful in a pair of sparkling white Speedos (or y-fronts?) during a portrait back in 1985.
7. Stallone looks as though he may have borrowed Brigitte Nielsen's fur coat as he arrives at a hotel in LA back in the '80s.
8. Stallone swaps his white Speedos for a more modest navy-blue pair as he collects the morning paper and waves to photographers outside his former Malibu home, back in 1979.
9. Stallone makes Simon Cowell's jeans look low-hung, as he arrives for a boxing match back in'82.
10. Dolph Lundgren dons a pair of jeggings and shows us what he's got (quite literally) as he does the splits during a work-out session in 1985.
11. Ditto.
12. Lundgren gently tenses his biceps as he poses by a pool.
13. Lundgren looks absolutely humongous as he towers over singer Dale Bozzio.
14. Wesley Snipes looks sharp in double denim in Los Angeles back in '96.
15. The late, great Patrick Swayze admires Wesley Snipes's style at the To Wong Foo premiere party at Planet Hollywood in 1995.
Naomi Gordon is news writer mainly covering entertainment news with a focus on celebrity interviews and television.
