“The Beekeeper” Theatrical Poster
Action star Jason Statham (The Meg, Redemption, The Expendables) returns in MGM’s The Beekeeper, an upcoming thriller from director David Ayer, who is perhaps best known for 2012’s End of Watch and 2016’s Suicide Squad.
On board as writer is Kurt Wimmer (Ultraviolet), director and writer of the criminally underrated 2002 cult classic, Equilibrium.
Co-stars include Jeremy Irons (Die Hard: With a Vengeance), Emmy Raver-Lampman (Dog), Bobby Naderi (Bright), and Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games).
The Beekeeper will chart the story of how one man’s brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as the ‘Beekeepers’ (via Deadline).
The Beekeeper opens on January 12, 2024. Don’t miss its Trailer below:
I’ll watch the hell out of this! Ayer, Wimmer and Statham? Yes, please. Last time Ayer and Wimmer worked together, we got the underrated piece of pulp that is “Street Kings”.
I gotta wait till I get home to watch this trailer on a big TV!
This is indeed a winning combination. Since Wimmer and Statham have worked together more than once now, Statham needs to get him more work!
People just don’t let him write. Even though Expendables 4 had good action, it was a mistake to pair Wimmer up with 2 other writers. I also suspect that Wimmer’s original screenplay of Law Abiding Citizen was much different from the final film considering that the special features on the DVD don’t mention him and make it look like the director and stars re-wrote it.
Yep.. I’m watching the Hell out of this! and with Beef Jerky instead of popcorn.
This looks damn good on trailer, let us all hope that the movie itself would live up to this praise too.
I’ve wished Jason Statham would return as The Transporter in a new movie that redeems the franchise, but if he’s going to make movies like The Beekeeper, this is probably the better direction to go in. This looks very satisfying, and the bad guys seem similar to the ones in The Roundup series, so watching them get punished will be special.
Does he use bees as a weapon to take down his enemies? If not I feel the poster is misleading!
That does look like fun, at least in a guilty pleasure kind of way, I will definitely watch it. Does anyone else think the John Wick franchise was apparently influential?
Yes John Wick also influenced Greta Gerwig to shoot Barbie with ultra colourful color grading as a homage to John Wicks action scenes. Also Chris Nolan pays homage to John Wick’s world building by shooting Oppenheimer in 70mm IMAX and setting it in the past cos John Wick movies also invented the concept of flashbacks and how you can make a film in 2023 but set it in 2017 for example
That’s funny, but in all seriousness, Beekeeper is in line with Ayer and Statham’s previous output considering how it’s more gritty and less “slick and polished.” As far as modern action films taking influence from the John Wick franchise, I think it’s more of a case where they want to one-up those films in their own style.
I just watched The Beekeeper, and it was satisfying. Very much the feel good escapism I go for.
The fight choreographer is Jeremy Marinas who has a pretty impressive resume as a stunt person, and has closely worked with JJ Perry, Chad Stahelski, and David Lietch. I’m sure he’s next as stunt person turned director in the future. He must have a good rapport with Jason Statham since he was brought in to choreograph his fight scene for the highly demanded Fast X.
It is always fun to watch Jason Statham plow through bad guys, but it’s more fun when he has a worthy opponent. It was a step in the right direction to have Taylor James show up as a South African mercenary, and they have a pretty brutal fight scene in a narrow hallway. At the same time, I just wish there was more of it.
Jason Statham may not be a spring chicken anymore, but I hope he can keep doing movies like this for as long as he can.