For a few years last decade, Simon West and Jason Statham seemed like a fitting pair, giving us The Mechanic, The Expendables 2 and Wild Card. Then it kind of just went away. Now, West says he is ready to get behind the camera once again for another Statham actioner.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not as if Simon West and Jason Statham had a falling out, but rather the opportunity to reteam just hasn\u2019t come up. But that\u2019s not for a lack of consideration, as West does tend to picture Statham in certain roles. \u201cYeah, yeah. I mean, I\u2019ve done three movies with Jason, and we always enjoy working with each other. And I think, you know, we\u2019re both proud of the films we did together. So every now and again, you know, there\u2019ll be something that comes up and I think, \u2018Oh, Jason might like this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
With that, Simon West remains hopeful<\/a> that he\u2019ll work with Jason Statham again. \u201cAnd if, if you know he\u2019s available or is interested, he hasn\u2019t done something like it, we would definitely talk about it. So I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll do something in the future together, because we really enjoy working together. It\u2019s just got to be the right thing for both of us, that we both want to do something different and not the same, as you know either of us have done or either of us have done together. We always want to do something a little bit different. So it\u2019s finding that magic project really.\u201d So what could that project be? Whatever it is, you can probably picture the poster already\u2026<\/p>\n In the decade since Simon West and Jason Statham worked together (West was replaced on The Mechanic\u2019s sequel by Dennis Gansel), the director has had more duds and flops than you\u2019d think he could afford (two have a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and his latest, Bride Hard<\/a>, looks to be one of his worst movies to date). So a return to Statham territory might be just what he needs. Statham, meanwhile, keeps on doing Statham<\/a>, which is just what we want from him.<\/p>\n Do you want to see Simon West and Jason Statham team up again? Would The Mechanic 3 be the ideal project?<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a few years last decade, Simon West and Jason Statham seemed like a fitting pair, giving us…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,11695,3943,82161,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-203881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jason-statham","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-simon-west","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114724303215995440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}