Jason Statham is returning for a sequel to The Mechanic, and Dennis Gansel is directing.
Jason Statham memorably played Arthur Bishop in 2011’s The Mechanic. During that film, Bishop lived by a strict, selective set of rules as an elite assassin, and one of them is apparently to double-tap for a sequel: Mechanic 2 is a go.
The Hollywood Reporterhas revealed that Dennis Gansel, director of The Wave and Before the Fall, has signed up to helm a sequel to the 2011 R-rated hit. Gansel, a German filmmaker, will make his first trip to Hollywood with this effort that already has Expendables star Statham onboard. Indeed, it was Expendables 2 director Simon West who helmed the first effort. THR also reports that it is unclear whether the original’s co-star Ben Foster will return, but seeing as his character died at the end of that film, we’d deem it unlikely.
The Mechanic, the story of how Statham’s Bishop could murder anyone and make it look like an accident—including his eventual co-star—was a remake of a 1972 Charles Bronson star vehicle and made $22 million internationally.
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