The upcoming Jason Statham action outing, The Beekeeper, has added a host of talent to its supporting cast. Revealed by Deadline, The Beekeeper has attached Oscar winner, Watchmen, and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice star Jeremy Irons to proceedings alongside The Umbrella Academy star Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bright and Black Summer actor Bobby Naderi, and The Hunger Games and Future Man star Josh Hutcherson.
The report also reveals that The Beekeeper, which will find Jason Statham on wonderfully familiar ground as a man on a quest for revenge, has now begun filming in the United Kingdom.
Suicide Squad and Training Day director David Ayer will helm Jason Statham’s next foray into action, with the filmmaker working from a script by Kurt Wimmer, who is best known for Law Abiding Citizen, Equilibrium, and Salt.
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The Beekeeper was announced at the end of last year and has been described as a “fast-paced action-thriller, which is steeped in the mythology of beekeeping.” Yes, that’s right, beekeeping. Thus, The Beekeeper will follow a man’s personal journey of vengeance, which takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as the ‘Beekeepers’ — which sounds tailor-made for a Jason Statham vehicle.
Jason Statham Continues His Tenure as a No-Nonsense Action Hero
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Jason Statham has become synonymous with no-nonsense, 80s-style action movies, and he shows no signs of slowing down. The Beekeeper is just one of several exciting action outings on the horizon for The Stath, with the actor next due to lead director Guy Ritchie’s Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre. Co-starring Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone, and Hugh Grant, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre follows Statham as super spy Orson Fortune and his team of top operatives as they recruit Hollywood’s biggest movie star, Danny Francesco, to help them on an undercover mission to stop a billionaire arms broker.
Statham is also due to reprise the role of Lee Christmas in the upcoming The Expendables 4, which will find Statham taking over the franchise entirely from action movie legend Sylvester Stallone. Statham will also once again battle a big shark in The Meg sequel, Meg 2: The Trench, from director Ben Wheatley, with the Statham sequels continuing with Fast X, which will reportedly see the action star reprise the role of Deckard Shaw.
The Beekeeper has not yet been given a release date, but certainly sounds like a promising action flick for The Stath.
