VIVA LA MADNESS Rejoins Jason Statham And Guy Ritchie For Q1 2026 Production Start
The duo will mark their sixth feature film together since 1998’s “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels”
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VIVA LA MADNESS: Jason Statham’s ‘Layer Cake’ Series Succession Films Next Year In The U.K. For Netflix And Sky
It’s been a few years since any news was made pertaining to action star and actor Jason Statham’s upcoming television series, Viva La Madness. Fast forward to 2017 and it now appears the show is months away from rolling cameras in the U.K. as one of several programs either in production or in development with streaming giant, Netflix. According to KFTV, the new ten-episode series will be connected to Matthew Vaughn’s 2004 adaptation of J.J. Connolly’s Layer Cake starring Daniel Craig, only not in sequel succession; Daniel Craig starred in the film about a nameless drug dealer’s exit from the field hampered by Neo-Nazis in search of missing Ecstasy and a wealthy socialite’s missing daughter. Statham will take the reigns this time around as our anonymous hero whose short-lived retirement in the Caribbean lands him back in the throes of the criminal underworld, ultimately landing amidst a turf war between […]
Statham Actioner, VIVA LA MADNESS, Goes To TV
Action star Jason Statham made headlines two years ago with producer Steve Chasman upon the announcement of their acquisition of UK crime novelist, author J.J. Connolly’s 2011 literary Layer Cake sequel Viva La Madness. Since then the plan was to adapt it for film following the first film adap in 2004 which featured Daniel Craig in the role of a nameless drug dealer whose exit from the field gets a monkey wrench tossed in with Neo-Nazis in search of missing Ecstasy and a wealthy socialite’s missing daughter. This week, reporting from THR is news that instead of the big screen, Connolly’s work is now headed to television. Gaumont International Television is producing the series with a script by Connolly himself who journeys our character from the Caribbean back in the throes of the criminal underworld thanks to two money launderers, only to see himself caught in the middle of a […]