Jason Statham & Man Ritchie Reuniting for ‘Viva La Insanity’

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• Jason Statham and Man Ritchie are planning to work collectively once more.
• They’re each connected to motion thriller ‘Viva La Insanity’.
• This can mark their sixth collaboration.

Motion star Jason Statham and director Man Ritchie clearly like working collectively. And past different repeat collaborators for the previous, Ritchie stretches again to the beginning of Statham’s profession with ‘Lock, Inventory and Two Smoking Barrels,’ the 1998 film that put them each on the filmmaking map.

“A Shame to Criminals All over the place.”

Launch Date: Mar 5, 1999

Run Time: 1 hr 45 min

Finances: $1,350,000

In line with Selection, they’re set to crew up but once more, with Statham convincing Ritchie to return aboard and write/direct ‘Viva La Insanity,’ primarily based on the novel by writer J.J. Connelly.

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What’s the story of ‘Viva La Insanity’?

Jason Statham as Levon Cade in director David Ayer’s ‘A Working Man’. An Amazon MGM Studios movie. Photograph Credit score: Dan Smith © 2025 Amazon Content material Companies LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Right here’s the place it will get attention-grabbing… ‘Viva La Insanity’ attracts from Connelly’s sequel novel to ‘Layer Cake,’ which was tailored in 2004 by Matthew Vaughn. It marked Vaughn stepping away from producing Ritchie’s films to change into a filmmaker in his personal proper.

In line with the 2011 novel’s description, it strikes the story on to worldwide crime with trans-Atlantic drug offers, cash laundering and high-tech digital fraud, portrayed with the identical uncanny believability.

The nameless hero of ‘Layer Cake’ is pulled again into the drug sport earlier than he can escape to a sunny retirement: in an genuine however dazzling mixture of London low-life, Caribbean high-life and Venezuelan drug cartels toting machine-guns in Mayfair.

But the film of ‘Viva La Insanity’, which Ritchie may even co-produce is being crafted as a stand-alone, not a continuation of ‘Layer Cake’ or another work from Connelly.

And Statham has lengthy been linked with a possible official film sequel to ‘Layer Cake’, taking on the function as soon as performed by Daniel Craig (‘No Time to Die’).

Now, although, it seems issues have moved on to this very totally different adaptation.

What else are Jason Statham and Man Ritchie engaged on?

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal (left) and director Man Ritchie (proper) on the set of ‘The Covenant,’ a Metro Goldwyn Mayer Footage movie. Credit score: Christopher Raphael / Metro Goldwyn Mayer Footage.

Statham is often busy with motion insanity: he’s shot ‘Shelter,’ a couple of recluse on a Scottish isle who rescues a lady solely to return beneath assault; and ‘Mutiny,’ enjoying a person framed for the homicide of his rich boss who should go on the run.

‘Shelter’ will probably be out in January subsequent yr, ‘Mutiny’ follows in August. And Statham is presently at work on sequel ‘The Beekeeper 2.’

As for Ritchie, he wrote the film ‘Spouse and Canine’ and is enhancing ‘Within the Gray.’ There’s additionally the second season of his Netflix collection ‘The Gents,’ due subsequent yr.

When will ‘Viva La Insanity’ be on screens?

With Ritchie set to begin filming early subsequent yr and Statham the one individual within the solid to date, we wouldn’t count on this one a lot earlier than later in 2026 or early 2027.

Jason Statham in ‘Homefront’. Photograph: Open Highway Movies.

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