This might come as a surprise to you, but Jason Statham is starring in another action film coming out later this year. Crazy, right? What probably will surprise you is that it's going straight-to-DVD, which makes no sense considering Statham's box office appeal here. Then again, the relatively weak $29M haul for The Mechanic
here in the States might have had some impact on that decision. Whatever, the film is called Blitz
, and we last saw the red band trailer for it back in March. Statham is his typical hard nosed self as a cop who is assigned to bring down a cop killer. Paddy Considine(In America
, Hot Fuzz
) stars as his openly gay partner, which I'm sure will lead to no small amount of hilarious tension. Nathan Parker(Moon
) adapted the script, based on one on Irish novelist Ken Bruen's hard boiled novel. Elliott Lester directs.
