It’s a shame that whatever this was turned out to be a trade news fluke, which is far from what Anthony D’Alessandro’s reporting over at Deadline appears to be regarding Indonesian director Timo Tjahjanto.
The word now is that a sequel to 2024 hit thriller, The Beekeeper, will shoot in the Fall. Jason Statham will reprise the titular role for Tjahjanto who suceeds David Ayer at the helm, and with a script by returning scribe Kurt Wimmer. Amazon MGM Studios is handling the pic with Statham producing via his Punch Palace Productions label, alongside Chris Long for through Long Shot Productions.
Statham played Adam Clay, formerly of a powerful and clandestine organization known as “Beekeepers” in the inaugural film, and firstly introduced as a literal professional beekeeper. When he learns of his neighbor’s suicide after being conned out of all her savings, Clay’s mission of vengeance escalates into a one-man war on a corrupt economic system that leads right to the top of our government.
There is no word yet on who among the cast of the previous film will return, including co-star Emmy Raver-Lampman who plays a dogged FBI agent with her own personal connection to the case. The report does note that the studio is working on bringing Ayer back in a producing capacity.
Tjahjanto, to add, has an ongoing streak with Netflix delivering a handful of action hits since 2018’s The Night Comes For Us. The current director of Nobody 2 teased roughly a week and a half ago that he was “Doing another Hollywood project this year” which evidently brings some veracity to Thursday’s reporting, to which after, Tjahjanto said, he would commit to a follow up to last year’s The Shadow Strays, or 2022’s The Big 4.
Statham will next appear in Ayer’s A Working Man for Amazon MGM in March, as well as Jean-François Richet’s 2026 actioner Mutiny for Lionsgate
Read more at Deadline.
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