Jason Statham to Star in Remake of The Mechanic?
source: http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/04/21/jason-statham-and-simon-west-to-remake-charles-bronsons-...
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Michael Winner’s The Mechanic has been spuriously described as an action classic by Production Weekly today. if you don’t know it, the film was one of a whole heap of Bronson movies in which his character’s main focus is on killing but while many of them featured the man as a supposedly heroic vigilante, this one casting him as a master hitman who dyes his hair.
The reason they mention it at all is that Simon West is apparently in talks to reinvent the film with Jason Statham in the starring role. Okay - I can see that shifting a few DVDs. Maybe it will even give him another action franchise. I think he can probably support a good half dozen running concurrently.
In the original film - of which I believe Edgar Wright is bafflingly a rather vocal supporter - Bronson’s character is an elder statesman of murder for money, employed in training an up and coming youngster in the assassin’s arts. This ‘next generation’ killer is played by Jan-Michael Vincent, later seen further besmirching his karma with Airwolf and Buffalo ‘66.
The reason they mention it at all is that Simon West is apparently in talks to reinvent the film with Jason Statham in the starring role. Okay - I can see that shifting a few DVDs. Maybe it will even give him another action franchise. I think he can probably support a good half dozen running concurrently.
In the original film - of which I believe Edgar Wright is bafflingly a rather vocal supporter - Bronson’s character is an elder statesman of murder for money, employed in training an up and coming youngster in the assassin’s arts. This ‘next generation’ killer is played by Jan-Michael Vincent, later seen further besmirching his karma with Airwolf and Buffalo ‘66.
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Ok, I have huge respect for an film in which the the main character falls several thousand feet from a helicopter and survives, simply by landing on a car.
Statham fits in perfectly with taglines such as "He was dead … but he got better" But he best tread on eggshells when remaking The Mechanic for this is Charles Bronson territory.I sincerely hope The Stath nails this!
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