The dream team! Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone join forces at Comic Con

Over two decades ago, they were testosterone fuelled rivals in the Hollywood action hero arena.

But after teaming up in two films over the past couple years, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone have clearly decided to become a super duo as they reclaim their macho careers.

The ageing muscle-men joined forces on the red carpet at Comic Con in San Diego, California, to promote their upcoming prison break movie Escape Plan, on Thursday.

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A long-time coming: Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger joined forces for the red carpet screening of their new movie Escape Plan in San Diego, California, on Thursday

'You hit like a vegetarian': In Escape Plan the two power punchers engage in hand-to-hand combat as they trade quotable one-liners

Dream team: The Italian Stallion and the Austrian Oak mugged with a masked impersonator from their new futuristic prison break film While the two avid weight lifters have become thick as thieves in real life, their latest movie venture has the two playing actual convicts. In the prison break story, Stallone plays a man, Ray Breslin, who designs an inescapable high-tech

penitentiary, who becomes a prisoner after being double-crossed.

Luckily he is helped in his quest to escape with the aide of a friendly fellow inmate Swan Rottmayer played by Schwarzenegger.

Face-off: In their new movie the two action stars are natural enemies who team up to get out of prison In the film the two are natural enemies who must team up to both escape and survive. To what will be the delight of fans, the duo share some instantly quotable one-liners in the trailer for the film. in one sequence the pair must perform a fight to create a diversion.

Uncharacteristic: Arnie takes a supporting role in the new action film As they engage in the combat, Stallone punches Arnie in the face - to which the bodybuilding legend reponds: 'You hit like a vegetarian.'

The Rocky star then delivers an uppercut to Arnie's solar plexus, which elicits an approving groan.

In another scene, where the two are detailing the specifics of their partnership, Arnie threatens: 'If I don't get out, I kill you.'



A muscular smile: The pair of macho men grinned ear-to-ear as fans cheered on the super duo Contrasting styles: Sly opted for a simple cowboy shirt and blue jeans as Arnie showed his dapper side in an all-white suit But Stallone responds with his characteristically macho irreverence for his own life, saying curtly: 'Fair enough.'

The former Planet Hollywood investors have a lot in common as well as 10 children, four wives, and several film franchises between them. 'We're just a couple of old war horses talking about the oddest subjects on the planet,' Stallone told Entertainment Tonight last year.

80s icons: The famous duo battled it out to be the kings of action in franchises such as Conan and Rambo