Save for the occasional facet journey into sci-fi or comedy, Statham likes his motion motion pictures to be gruff, muscular, and considerably based mostly in actuality … or, on the very least, the model of actuality the place you possibly can chuck a pot of nectar by-product at your opponent, toss your lighter at them, and casually stroll away because the sticky-sweet substance lights up your enemy prefer it’s the Fourth of July. (Sorry to disappoint, kiddos, however we examined it ourselves: Opposite to what “The Beekeeper” would have you ever consider, honey shouldn’t be really “flammable as f***.”)
Per The Stath:
“Cinema is like music. Some individuals like Nation and Western, others like heavy steel. I am drawn to a bit extra of a grounded sort of motion. [Laughs] Effectively, I like being grounded to be a component we inject into the loopy world that we’re in.”
With the superhero bubble having, presumably for actual this time, lastly burst, maybe journalists will now not be pressured into asking everybody they interview why they have not transformed to the church of Marvel and DC but. Whereas there are many comedian ebook characters that I might envision Statham enjoying (these almost decade-old rumors about him being within the operating for Bullseye on the “Daredevil” collection had been, if nothing else, heading in the right direction), there is not any cause that he has to do the Marvel do-si-do. Let him stick to creating “Meg 3: The Seek for Shark” as an alternative for so long as he is keen and in a position.