Action icon and The Beekeeper star Jason Statham will soon unite with frequent Gerard Butler collaborator and Angel Has Fallen director Ric Roman Waugh for what’s sure to be action thriller magic. While several details, including the title of the movie, are being kept under wraps for now, MovieWeb’s own George Edelman had the chance to speak exclusively with Statham’s co-star, Mickey 17 star Naomi Ackie, about the action outing. And the hype train is now chugging…
While Ackie, who has seen her star rise rapidly following outstanding performances in the likes of Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, Blink Twice, and Mickey 17, wasn’t able to give too much away, she did declare the movie “a classic,” before heaping praise on The Stath.
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“Oh, it was so much fun. I don’t know if I can give anything away. You know, it’s, it’s such a different, a different world, but it’s so much fun. It’s a classic that I think the only way I can describe it is, it’s like, you know, Jason Statham is so good at making exciting action films that feel extremely watchable and so it’s actually so much fun being a part of that world… I had a ball. I was there for like, a few, a few days. I was there for like, maybe a week, and, yeah, so much fun.”
Putting Jason Statham with Greenland and Kandahar director Ric Roman Waugh can surely result in nothing less than an action thriller classic which, according to Ackie, is exactly what the movie is. The untitled action project finds The Stath on familiar ground (but with an even grittier twist) as the A Working Man star takes the lead as a man with a mysterious past who is forced out of hiding to fight for justice. Told you it was familiar.
Jason Statham & Ric Roman Waugh’s Action Thriller Promises to Be a Classic
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The as-yet-untitled action movie finds Statham and Ackie starring alongside Bodhi Rae Breathnach (So Awkward Academy), Bill Nighy (Love Actually, The First Omen), and Daniel Mays (The Bank Job). Directed by Ric Roman Waugh from a script by Ward Parry, the action thriller was filmed in Scotland and does not yet have a release date, but you can check out the intriguing synopsis below.
“A recluse on a remote Scottish island rescues a girl from the sea, unleashing a perilous sequence of events that culminate in an attack on his home, compelling him to face his turbulent history.”
Earlier this year, Statham reunited with The Beekeeper director David Ayer for the Sylvester Stallone-scripted action outing, A Working Man, which finds the actor and martial artist as a man striving to live a simple life working construction. However, when his boss’s daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, he is forced to once again use his particular set of skills from a former life as a black ops agent to find her. A Working Man proved to be another big success for Statham, with the Transporter star showing no signs of slowing down as he next takes the lead in Plane director Jean-François Richet’s Mutiny before joining forces with The Shadow Strays and Nobody 2 director Timo Tjahjanto for The Beekeeper 2.
Naomi Ackie, meanwhile, will star alongside Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie, David Tennant, Jonathan Pryce, and Richard E. Grant in Netflix’s murder mystery movie, The Thursday Murder Club.
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