VIVA LA MADNESS Rejoins Jason Statham And Guy Ritchie For Q1 2026 Production Start
Jason Statham will star in Viva La Madness, according to Variety’s Alex Ritman. Guy Ritchie will write and direct the feature with plans to roll cameras early next year.
Viva La Madness is author J.J. Connelly’s literary 2011 follow-up to Matthew Vaughn’s 2004 cult crime flick, Layer Cake, which Connelly also penned. That film featured actor 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.
The news on Wednesday marks the latest update in twelve years since Viva La Madness was in toe for a film adaptation which later reset it sights to TV and streaming by 2015, per the trades. According to Ritman, plot details are unknown, but the team are treating it as a stand-alone title instead of a sequel to any past works.
The film also marks a sixth reunion for Statham and Ritchie since 1998’s Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. Their recent projects together include 2021 action crime thriller Wrath Of Man, and 2023 espionage romp, Operation Fortune.
Producing Viva La Madness are Statham for Punch Palace, alongside Thomas Benski (Gangs Of London) for Lumina Studios, Ritchie and Ivan Atkinson for Toff Guy Films, John Friedberg for Black Bear. Statham will next be seen in Ric Roman Waugh’s Shelter, and Jean-François Richet’s Mutiny in the new year.
Read more at Variety.
Lead image: Jason Statham in “Wrath Of Man” (MGM via United Artists Releasing)
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