For causes recognized solely to the film Gods (and, most likely, the studio), one of many largest motion film hits within the repertoire of style icon Jason Statham has hardly been accessible on streaming. Effectively, that every one modified simply final week, with the motion outing lastly touchdown on Netflix the place it has rapidly began to dominate the favored platform.
Launched again in 2019 and directed by David Leitch from a script by Chris Morgan and Drew Pearce, Jason Statham takes co-lead within the motion film spin-off Quick & Livid Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, which is now climbing the Netflix charts. Following Jason Statham as Deckard Shaw and Dwayne Johnson as Luke Hobbs, whereas introducing The Implausible 4: First Steps star Vanessa Kirby as Hattie Shaw, Hobbs & Shaw is a spin-off that takes place after the occasions of The Destiny of the Livid and earlier than the occasions of F9.
The spin-off, which is certainly one of Statham’s highest-rated motion pictures on Rotten Tomatoes’ Popcornmeter at 88%, is now ranked #3 on Netflix’s Prime 10, standing alongside the likes of Gerard Butler’s motion thriller Kandahar, the Quick and Livid sequel Livid 7, Vanessa Kirby’s new drama Night time All the time Comes, and Netflix’s monumental animated hit KPop Demon Hunters. You possibly can take a look at the official synopsis for Hobbs & Shaw under.
“Brixton Lorr is a cybernetically enhanced soldier who possesses superhuman power, a superb thoughts and a deadly pathogen that would wipe out half of the world’s inhabitants. It is now as much as hulking lawman Luke Hobbs and lawless operative Deckard Shaw to place apart their previous variations and work collectively to stop the seemingly indestructible Lorr from destroying humanity.”
Jason Statham Has a Main Motion Sequel within the Pipeline (It’s Not ‘Hobbs & Shaw 2’)
Whereas we await the arrival of Hobbs and Shaw 2 (which is within the works, in accordance with author Chris Morgan), Jason Statham has one other extremely anticipated sequel within the pipeline: The Beekeeper 2. Set to be helmed by The Shadow Strays and No one 2 director Timo Tjahjanto, the motion thriller follow-up has now entered manufacturing, with the filmmaker revealing lately to MovieWeb’s personal George Edelman…
“I used to be, actually two days in the past, I used to be in London scouting for areas [for Beekeeper 2], and now I am right here in LA, however I like…I can not wait, to be sincere, as a result of, , Beekeeper is clearly a kind of motion pictures the place it form of walked the wonderful line … one thing absurd about it in an effective way, proper? Like, I feel that is what I that is what I am drawn to, as a result of I like this absurdist world of Beekeeper and secret brokers and all that stuff, ? However like, additionally, there’s one thing that’s actually earnest in its sense, the place it may be actually violent, it may be immediately very gritty.”
Although plot particulars stay below wraps, Tjahjanto has since revealed to ScreenRant that he plans to remodel Statham’s character Adam Clay into his model of a Marvel vigilante icon…
“I am undoubtedly drawn to the Beekeeper collection simply because once I watched it, I at all times felt that, “Wow, that is primarily Statham taking part in certainly one of my favourite characters within the Marvel universe, which is The Punisher.
“If I can not make The Punisher movie, if the Gods of movie aren’t permitting me to do a Punisher movie but, then I will flip Adam Clay into my very own model of The Punisher. Which is nice! I feel Statham has that high quality in him. He has that very stoic Frank Fortress-esque high quality to him. And I like that Adam Clay is unquestionably a man who is sort of colourful in his alternative of violence. He will get actually, actually inventive together with his violence.”