Aside from a few talk show appearances, Jason Statham’s screen career has largely been limited to the cinema. But he’s got plans to change all that, aiming to star in and produce a telly adaptation of J.J. Connolly’s book Viva La Madness.
Connolly is best known for writing Layer Cake (the adaptation of which launched Matthew Vaughn’s directorial career), and this is the follow-up. The plot finds an anonymous hero stranded in the Caribbean thanks to his criminal activities back home in London. Looking for a way back into that life he knew, he joins forces with two London gangsters, Sonny King and Roy “Twitchy” Burns.
“Viva La Madness, with its riveting characters and twisting storyline, is a volatile cocktail of action and comedy that only J.J. Connolly can create,” says Gaumont International TV CEO Katie O’Connell Marsh in a statement picked up by The Hollywood Reporter. “Jason Statham, known for his roles in the Transporter trilogy, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, The Bank Job, as well as the recent Furious 7 and Spy, brings such strength and credibility to his characters but also has an effortless shade of vulnerability that gives him so much dimension on screen.”
Gaumont, which helped bring Hannibal to our screens, is looking for a network partner in the States to make this happen. Surely someone will jump at the chance to bring The Stath to the tellybox? Film-wise, Statham will next be seen in Mechanic: Resurrection, which is hitting UK cinemas on August 26 next year.
Source Empire News http://ift.tt/1OhQTp4
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