The largest sporting event on the planet is going to get underway in just a few weeks. The World Cup is being played across the US, Canada, and Mexico because fuck the fans, FIFA has hotel and airline statuses to maintain, that’s why!
A few things are a certainty. Some deluded US fans will be convinced they will actually win it before a ball is kicked, and then the horrible realisation hits them. England will flatter to deceive and go out in the quarter finals, as is traditional, and Scottish fans will be massively noisy and somehow manage to make going out in the first round with a single win and a +1 goal difference seem like a victory.
Another certainty is that some films will be made with the World Cup at their centre. We already had Balls Up, which was way funnier than it had any right to be, mainly due to Sasha Baron Cohen and a penis fish.
Now, Scotland’s Jason Statham – Gerard Butler – is set to play a sniper who must stop a major threat to the event, according to Deadline.
It follows his character receiving an anonymous threat over the radio, which kicks off a race against a ticking clock in order to save his family and tens of thousands of fans in the stadium.
Good ol’ Gerry. Totally reliable. Especially in this $70-$90 million range. The project has been set up at Thunder Road with Aaron Benjamin (She Seems Nice, Maverick) writing and Butler, Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, Alan Siegel, and Steve Klinsky producing.
Black Bear is launching sales at the upcoming Cannes market, with a director expected shortly. Amusingly, it won’t be ready until about a year after the World Cup finishes.
Butler will next appear in the S. Craig Zahler-penned Empire City.
