BY EMIL TIEDEMANN
One of the world's biggest action stars, Jason Statham (pictured), will star as Arthur Bishop in director Simon West's remake of Michael Winner's 1972 action thriller The Mechanic, which starred Charles Bronson as a highly-skilled, strongly-detached hitman.As announced on Thursday (May 7), Oscar winners Irwin Winkler (Rocky) and Robert Chartoff (Raging Bull) will executive produce the film, and Karl Gajdusek (TV's Dead Like Me) has completed a script.
Winkler and Chartoff also produced the original, which was noted for opening without dialogue for its first 16 minutes. The reboot will also be executive produced by Nu Image/ Millennium's Boaz Davidson (Righteous Kill), Danny Dimbort (Mad Money), Avi Lerner (2008's Rambo), and Trevor Short (The Wicker Man).
West, who also directed a remake of When a Stranger Calls (2006), will begin shooting the movie this summer in Shreveport, Louisiana. Statham's current release, Crank: High Voltage, is a sequel to a hit 2006 action flick, but has bombed at the box office.
Yawn, doesn't interest me in the least.
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