You know exactly where you stand with a movie starring The Stath. We respect that. Filling a niche that has been left vacant since 1980s adult action movies stopped being a thing. The kind of Stallone and Schwazennerger vehicle that adorned VHS rental shelves of our youths, a baton picked up by Van Damme and Seagal before the nineties came along. Statham movies usually serve up exactly what you need with a few beers on your couch.
Now, Amazon MGM Studios has released a new red-band trailer for David Ayer’s A Working Man.
Ayer is re-teaming with Statham after The Beekeeper. Statham stars as Levon Cade, a man who left behind a decorated military career to live a simple life working construction. As is traditional in this type of movie, they really should have left him alone.
When his boss’s daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, he sets himself a mission to bring her home and, in the process, uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he ever could have imagined.
It is based on the 2014 novel Levon’s Trade, by Chuck Dixon. The script was adapted by both Ayer and Sylvester Stallone. Statham, Ayer, and Stallone produce alongside Chris Long, John Friedberg, Bill Block, and Kevin King Templeton.
David Harbour, Jason Flemyng, Merab Ninidze, Maximilian Osinski, Cokey Falkow, Michael Peña, Noemi Gonzalez, Arianna Rivas, Emmett J. Scanlan, and Eve Mauro co-star.
A Working Man will open in cinemas on March 28th and will probably hit Amazon Prime Video in short order after that.
This is not all in Jason Statham news today. It turns out a sequel to 2024’s The Beekeeper is coming, and Miramax is putting up the cash.
The first film saw Statham playing a retired intelligence operative who they also should have left alone. They never learn. This time, they” were online scammers who stripped his friend of her retirement savings, causing her to commit suicide. Those responsible come to wish they hadn’t.
Emmy Raver-Lampman, Minnie Driver, Josh Hutcherson, and Jeremy Irons starred in the original, which made a healthy profit and got good reviews.
Timo Tjahjanto (Nobody 2) is taking over as director from Ayer. Screenwriter Kurt Wimmer returns. Statham will produce through his Punch Palace Productions and Long Shot Productions.