VIVA LA MADNESS: Jason Statham’s ‘Layer Cake’ Series Succession Films Next Year In The U.K. For Netflix And Sky

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 crime syndicates and international assassins.

Netflix and Sky are behind the new series with Statham producing along with partner Steven Chasman who has produced more than a dozen Statham headliners, including the initial Transporter trilogy, 2015’s Wild Card and last year’s Mechanic: Resurrection. The streaming company is also moving along in the U.K. with eight-part New Pictures drama, The Innocents, as well as a serial prequel of The Dark Crystal and The Outlaw King.

Time will tell how scheduling plays from here on as Statham is also attached to several films that have stirred about in the last few years, including Straw and a currently brewing Fast And Furious spin-off movie in which he’ll join Dwayne Johnson following this year’s The Fate Of The Furious.