Eclectic Pictures and Hollywood Ventures Group are teaming on a “female-driven expansion” of The Expendables franchise, tentatively titled Expendabelles . Sound familiar? It is. Ever since the first Expendables hit theaters in 2010 and went on to gross north of $100 million — effectively launching a Sylvester Stallone-led franchise that has now produced a total of four movies — a handful of filmmakers have tried to crack a version starring women in the lead roles. Back in 2014, Legally Blonde helmer Robert Luketic was set to direct a version penned by that film’s scribes, Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah, for Millennium Films that was to center on female operatives who had to pose as call girls to rescue a nuclear scientist being held hostage, a plot that surely would be eviscerated online today.…