Mutiny is currently filming in UK, with Jason Statham starring and the director of Plane calling the shots. More here.
Jason Statham kicked off the year in some style with The Beekeeper. It remains one of the most fun films of 2024, as The Statham managed to kick seven shades of shit out of people, all while tending to his non-metaphorical hive. Sequels would be very much appreciated.
The Statham hasn’t been sitting back and counting the coins from The Beekeeper’s surprise box office success, though. He’s already reteamed with the director of that particular film, David Ayer, for Levon’s Trade. That’s based on a screenplay from Sylvester Stallone, and in turn on the book of the same name by Chuck Dixon. It’s set for release this coming January.
Now though, cameras are rolling on Mutiny, another action thriller that’s shooting in the UK. It’s a movie that his production company – the beautifully named Punch Palace Productions – is overseeing, and as such, The Statham is one of the producers as well.
Jean-Francois Richet, the director of the suitably entertaining Gerard Butler vehicle (arf) Plane, is behind the camera for Mutiny, working from a screenplay by J P Davis and Lindsay Michel.
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The movie sees The Statham as a former Special Forces operative and also former New York cop. These days, for reasons, he’s working in private security when, wouldn’t you know it, he’s framed for murder. Sigh.
Still, this is the spark required for The Statham to head off to try and find the actual killer, and work out what’s going on. This time with a notable absence of bees.
Sky Cinema has already nabbed the film for UK release, and will be presumably looking to release Mutiny at some point in 2025. As it did with The Beekeeper, it’ll likely give the film a cinema outing too.
More as we hear it. We’re up to two Statham films for 2025 so far, and that’s very good news. If he and Gerard Butler can now do a Beekeeper and Plane crossover film – Bees On A Plane, perhaps? – then I can sleep happily.
