Jason Statham’s** Wild Card** – or ‘Carta Selvagem’ if you’re of one of our Brazilian readers – reunites everyone’s favourite gruff action star with Simon ‘The Mechanic’ West for an action-thriller that sees him take on Vegas Mob types, no doubt in the kind of Snap game that doesn’t involve any playing cards whatsoever. Here, debuting, is the film’s new poster, positioning Statham against kind of neon backdrop he was born to stand in front of looking hard. Penned by screenwriting great William Goldman, the man behind **Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid **and The Princess Bride, it’s the story of Nick Wild (Statham), a Vegas bodyguard with a gambling issue. When a pal gets brutally beaten, Wild turns on the perpetrator, only to discover that the man has a powerful dad high up in the Mob. Suddenly, he’s in deep with the city’s crime grandees. Knowing Statham’s skillset, he’ll be selvagem’ing the hell out of them in short order.
West, of course, put down his own marker with Con Air back in 1997. Fingers crossed that his return to the Vegas strip is as much fun as this.
With Dominik García-Lorido, Anne Heche, Sofia Vergara, Max Casella, Jason Alexander, Hope Davis and Stanley Tucci also aboard,** Wild Card** lands with us here in the UK on March 20. If you’re in Brazil, you can see it from February 26.