Co-productions with Chinese companies are all the rage at the moment; with a huge potential box office in the country and Chinese financiers ready to splash the cash on the right project. The latest to take advantage of the trend is a new Kurt Wimmer film boasting Jason Statham in the lead.
Wimmer’s latest script will find The Stath as an ex-pat Brit living in Hong Kong who encounters a high-level female Chinese agent and is coerced into helping to solve a kidnapping case that carries global implications. Statham is producing the film alongside partner Steven Chasman and they’re working with Chinese company Road Pictures.
“Jason and I both have been wanting to work with Kurt for a long time,” says Chasman. “He has such an incredible vision for this film that this collaboration is particularly exciting for us. The narrative Kurt creates is incredibly rich and while our story is rooted in adventure, it is also very much character driven.”
Statham’s next is Mechanic: Resurrection, which sees his return as Arthur Bishop and will be out on August 26 next year. Wimmer wrote and produced the new Point Break, which lands in the UK on February 12.