According to Hollywood.com, SlashFilm.com and FirstShowing.net, Jason is in talks to take a role in a Robin Hood type role in the noir film ‘Parker’. This is the first we’re hearing about it so I don’t know how reliable this information is. Maybe we’ll get confirmation from Jason’s people. The article says that the director of ‘Parker’ is thinking about taking the film and making the rounds at the Cannes Film Festival. That could be huge for Jason. We all know how great an actor he’s become and it would be great if the rest of the world saw it too.
April 19, 2011
April 19, 2011 at 11:27 am
I found this on facebook nice clear trailers Jase does that cheeky smile of his in one of them. I can’t help but smile myself when I see that smile!!
http://web.orange.co.uk/p/film/home?package=1377
April 19, 2011 at 11:28 am
Sorry forgot to say wait a few then the clip will come up. Enjoy Ladies!!
April 19, 2011 at 12:26 pm
@Sara, Thanks for the clip, enjoyed it, looks like it will be a good movie.
April 19, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Agreed. I think it sounds like it would be a great flick. I’d go see it!
Just hope it doesn’t turn out like “In the name of the king” – but I blame any flop from that movie on Uwe Boll. Jason still put in a great performance in my opinion.
April 19, 2011 at 2:17 pm
@Ras In the name of the king was what got me back into Jason. I like that like!
April 19, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Sorry children just came in, meant to say film!
April 19, 2011 at 10:01 pm
Thought this was funny!!
http://www.celebritycarsblog.com/2011/03/jason-statham-mix-up-at-the-gas-station/
April 20, 2011 at 12:47 pm
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/members/s?s=jason+statham&path=Search_All_Content&nav=Editorial_Images&f=NCOM%2Fsearch&rc=p&af=&o=a&daterange=&datestart=&dateend=&cbphoto=1&cbstock=1&cbill=1&cbgraf=1&cbcari=1&cbcart=1&cbtext=&cbspn=&cbpage=1&cbfeat=&cbvid=&search.x=27&search.y=14
April 20, 2011 at 9:28 pm
@Sara…love it! Nice to see he’s really human..too cute! Sorry Likenka…don’t have user names to this site. Thanks all!
April 21, 2011 at 1:18 am
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/KLVejbVBdnK/Stars+at+Chateau+Marmont/e-sc0mvSZfs/Jason+Statham
April 21, 2011 at 1:18 am
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/zxnEbNdDp7r/Jason+Statham+Rosie+Huntington+Whiteley+Chateau/vfeaqM-Udgj/Jason+Statham
April 21, 2011 at 7:15 am
I’m curious how big the budget for Parker gets. Obviously it will be another internationally financed movie(like pretty much every Statham movie), but I wonder if The Mechanic has a negative effect on it. Supposedly the bad performance of The Mechanic made Blitz go straight to DVD in the US(even though Blitz looks so much better).
April 21, 2011 at 10:43 am
@Brotham – That (Blitz to DVD) would be something interesting to find out. Performance as in his acting? Or Tony Goldwyn’s acting? Personally, I’d vote the latter. I was always made aware I was watching a movie when Tony came on screen it was that horrible.
@sara – In the name of the king was one I watched later – walking into it without any previous knowledge of the “HORRIBLE BOLL MOVIE!” rotten tomatoes. I was basically just catching up with Statham flicks. (Only one I haven’t watched, simply because I can’t find a copy of it, is Turn It Up. I want to watch it though.) Anyway, my husband and I sat down and watched ITNOTK not knowing anything about it and generally we liked it. Of course we had our own movie critiques, but they were of story line/character nature. The biggest one was the absolute Mary Sue-ness of Farmer’s wife. Her actions were so predictable she became boring. Otherwise, I really didn’t have any qualms with it. Generally, I was entertained, disappointed in the ending, but entertained. And, in the end, isn’t that what a movie is suppose to do?
April 21, 2011 at 2:15 pm
@Ras: No, the performance at the box office. It did $30m on a $40m budget. You could blame it on the quality of the movie, or the release date, but there’s also a pattern.
Bank Job did 30m, Death Race 36m, Transporter3 30m. You could say Statham’s box office draw is around $30m.
I wouldn’t say it’s $30m yet. The Killer Elite will do well(it has Clive Owen and DeNiro), but Safe might confirm it.
What does it mean for Blitz? I think it means the distributer doesn’t want to invest in a theatrical run for a movie that woun’t even do 30m.
They don’t expect 30m, because it’s a tough sell. It’s not a movie, where Statham shoots a bunch of guys, he isn’t wielding a lot of guns, it’s not in america or an exotic location and everyone is speaking with a weird accent.
So they might expect 20m tops, but they would have expenses in distribution, marketing, advertising and whatever money it makes the cinemas take around 50% of that and another big chunk goes to the production companies.
I’m interested in the budget for Parker, because Statham is now in the medium budget area of 40m movies. If his box office intake stagnates, even with a role in The Expendables, it could mean he drops out of it and he’s back to making 20m movies. I don’t expect it to happen yet, because as long as movies are released internationally they make a profit. And I don’t think he’s close to direct-to-dvd territory. But you never know.
Though Tony Goldwyn’s acting was awful.
April 21, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Ah, financial performance, gotcha. Sorry, my brain’s stuck in acting mode.
I’m honestly annoyed with movie critics now. I’m sure – SURE – the majority of them are in somebody’s pocket. Good movies get downgraded and talked down as crap and the crap movies are spoken up as if they’re God’s gift to the entertainment scene. I find myself finding any movie the critics say “it stinks” I’ll enjoy and the “must see” movies I can’t leave the theater soon enough. There are very few exceptions.
Of course, this is coming from the person who groaned through Avatar and still can’t sit through any of the Star Wars movies.
April 21, 2011 at 9:17 pm
I’m with you Ras, it’s all about the bucks and who wants to push the film. I have seen movies that were praised to the skies and I personally thought they STUNK. On the other side of the coin, movies that didn’t get a lot of push, I loved. Transformers – yuk, Transporters – hell yes.
April 22, 2011 at 5:44 am
It’s all about how much the budget for the film is. The Mechanic Was an estimated $40m dollars to make. It took around $29m in the states but only did almost a £1m here in the UK. These producers want to make money on a film so this film barely broke even. I never go by what these film critics say I’m just the same end up liking a lot films they don’t. Well at least if the film does crap at the box office, you can make up some money with the sale of DVDs and rental.
April 23, 2011 at 6:43 am
I went back through some of my old books and there was a copy of the Hunter, one of the first Parker stories. Written in the 60′s. To me it would take a great deal of rewriting to fit Jason into Parker. Nothing is the same, physically or attitude..Let’s see if he can pull it off.
April 23, 2011 at 11:19 am
@Oleredhead: could you describe Parker and why it wouldn’t fit Jason in it’s original form?
I have looked around, but couldn’t find much, so I have pretty much no knowledge about it. I would like to know more though.
April 23, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Could be a good way to stretch his acting? Who knows? I’m with Brotham in wanting to hear and expansion of your opinion, Olredhead.
April 23, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Page one describes him as; big and shaggy. His suit was gray limp, needing a press.Shoes and socks black and holey. Large hands, swinging curve fingered by his side looking as if they were molded of brown clay by a sculptor who thought big and liked veins. His hair (that alone should eliminate Jason) was brown and dry and blew around his head like a poor toupee about to fly loose. His face was a chipped chunk of concrete with eyes of flawed onyx. His mouth a thin slash, bloodless. By the end of page 10, his ex wife has overdosed after seeing him again and he slashes her dead face to make her unrecognizable. Nice guy. And this is only the first few pages.
Does this sound like Jason matrial? I can’t feel it myself. Of course the Mechanic was nothing like the original. so who knows what will be done with thisw character.
April 23, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Just trolling Amazon books, they have all the Parker series. Richard Stark and Donald Westlake are one and the same..
April 24, 2011 at 1:36 am
I can sort of see the ‘poor toupee’ – I mean, look at him as Bateman in London. If that hairstyle doesn’t scream ‘poor toupee’ I don’t know what does. He might actually have to wear a toupee, but that would make it look all the more believable. I’d still prefer seeing that rugged close shave, but I’m a very strong believer in that bald is beautiful and there ain’t nothing gonna change my mind!
Thin slash for mouth – check. The colour of his lips blend very well with the rest of his skin. I’ve seen many pics where his mouth looks very… well, lip-less.
But, big? Eh… depends on what sort of ‘big’ we’re talking about. Big as in muscular? He could bulk up a bit more for that. Or big as in ‘dang, his hands are the size of dinner plates and I didn’t think they made shoes in that size’? But considering the ‘large hands’ I assume the latter, so yeah, that would take some Hollywood camera/post-production magic.
But you’re right though – Mechanic was nothing like the original. From the sounds of it Killer Elite will be a shadow of the original Killer Elite based on The Feathermen. I’m still waiting for an announcement of him re-doing Death Wish. Guess I’ll keep my fingers crossed for that. Ultimately, in the end, only the people with the movie script will know what’s best.
April 24, 2011 at 11:27 am
Watched the Expendables last night and went to bed feeling nice and warm. Had a great dream, too, but woke up before much happened. S**t..