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Motion icon Jason Statham noticed large success final yr with the wild motion thriller The Beekeeper, with a sequel now formally on the way in which. Along with his return because the world’s greatest assassin-turned-beekeeper-turned-assassin once more, there are many earlier franchises led by The Stath that would come again for extra, with one of many actor and martial artist’s former administrators wanting to work with the motion celebrity once more.

Talking with MovieWeb’s personal George Edelman, director Simon West, who helmed the Statham automobiles The Expendables 2, Wild Card, and The Mechanic, says he’d like to reunite with The Stath and is “certain” they are going to do one thing once more sooner or later. So, might The Mechanic 3 lastly be on the playing cards?

“Yeah, yeah. I imply, I’ve performed three motion pictures with Jason, and we all the time take pleasure in working with one another. And I believe, you realize, we’re each pleased with the movies we did collectively. So each every so often, you realize, there will be one thing that comes up and I believe, “Oh, Jason may like this.” And if, if you realize he is out there or is , he hasn’t performed one thing prefer it, we’d undoubtedly discuss it. So I am certain we’ll do one thing sooner or later collectively, as a result of we actually take pleasure in working collectively. It is simply obtained to be the correct factor for each of us, that we each wish to do one thing totally different and never the identical, as you realize both of us have performed or both of us have performed collectively. We all the time wish to do one thing a bit bit totally different. So it is discovering that magic mission actually.”

Motion Followers Would Like to See Jason Statham Return as ‘The Mechanic’s Arthur Bishop

The primary The Mechanic, which was launched in 2011 and was itself a remake of the 1972 movie of the identical identify starring Charles Bronson, was helmed by Simon West and finds Statham starring as Arthur Bishop, an elite murderer who works to a strict code. After he’s compelled to kill his buddy and mentor, Harry (Donald Sutherland), Bishop takes Harry’s son (Ben Foster) beneath his wing whereas making an attempt to maintain him from discovering out the reality about his father’s homicide.

Whereas a West-less sequel, Mechanic: Resurrection, was launched again in 2016, and finds Statham’s Arthur Bishop tasked with finishing up a number of seemingly unattainable hits, a 3rd outing has but to emerge. Nonetheless, with each The Mechanic and Mechanic: Resurrection each blowing up on streaming not too long ago, and with West and Statham wanting to work collectively once more, right here’s hoping they reunite and at last deliver Bishop again.

In addition to teaming up with Jason Statham, Simon West additionally directed the motion basic Con Air starring Nicolas Cage. Talking additional with MovieWeb, the filmmaker revealed the distinction between working with the 2 main males and motion heroes…

“The issues which can be stunning should not actually, essentially in regards to the motion. You understand, there’s sure bizarre little issues that occur on set that you just you do not count on, like I with Nicolas Cage and Jason Statham. The distinction there may be, I each had a scene the place they needed to write a letter, and Nicolas Cage has horrible handwriting. Cannot learn in any respect. And Jason Statham has probably the most stunning handwriting you have ever seen in your life, which could be very, you realize, it’s extremely sudden to me, you realize, I might assume, you realize, robust man like Jason would not trouble. However he clearly was taught, you realize, when some college had taught him to jot down completely fantastically. And, you realize, so these are the stunning issues, the motion issues, you realize, everyone is kind of has a barely totally different type.”