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Yes I’m still here and while I’ve been MIA for a few days (once again job related) I’m back this week and what better way to triumphantly return then with some Jason Statham news. You can currently catch The Stath on Digital as A Working Man is now available on all platforms, but we’re here to talk about his upcoming sequel The Beekeeper 2 which has him teaming up with rogue director Timo Tjahjanto!
According to those feisty folks over at Deadline who get all the awesome scoop, Amazon MGM has locked and loaded for worldwide distribution rights to the sequel which saw Miramax releasing the original. The company had to shell out done serious coin as it’s being reported that they paid a cool north of the border of $50 million. I guess they know a good thing when they have it and have it now they do as they also distributed A Working Man in theaters this past March.
Filming is expected to start rolling this fall and while David Ayer, who helmed the first one, isn’t returning in the directors chair due to his commitment for filming the Brad Pitt feature The Heart of the Beast, Amazon MGM still hopes to keep him in the loop as a producer.
The first film was one of, if not, the best Statham led actioners and was a rollicking and brutal good time. It featured a host of hyper-fierce action set pieces and showed off some of Statham’s best action design as of late. It was clearly one of the best action pics of 2024 without question.
Tjahjanto, who has made quite the name for himself in the action industry, is coming in hot after directing the Bob Odenkirk action sequel Nobody 2 so it looks like Tjahjanto is the new go to guy to helm follow ups to popular action flicks. Tjahjanto has an unflinching and in your face directing skill and has delivered some of the most recent bloody output for action with the likes of The Shadow Strays, The Night Comes for Us, The Big 4, Headshot, May the Devil Take You, and May the Devil Take You Too.
This was a perfect merging once again for Statham as just like Ayer, Timo is an expert in directing fierce and unforgiving action flicks with extreme violence and some of the hardest hitting adrenaline sequences ever put to celluloid.
The original The Beekeeper saw Statham starring as Adam Clay, who is a retired clandestine human intelligence operative who sets out for revenge after his kind-hearted landlady becomes the victim of a phishing scam that steals millions of dollars from a charity she runs.
Statham also has Mutiny in the can and ready for a January 2026 release so with The Beekeeper 2 rolling in front of the cameras this fall, we might just get a double shot of Statham induced bad assery next year. Fingers crossed.
Source: Deadline
