![]() ![]() Taylor read it and decided he wanted to meet me and the rest is history, as soon as he gets involved the floodgates come open and all these great, interesting actors come to the party and it’s great. Jason Statham: There’s a writing department at CAA, which is my agency over there, and they send a script my way, you read the script, next thing you know it’s something that you just respond to immediately, “Oh, this is great I’d really love to do this.” And then with the right help you start putting things together, scripts get sent to directors. Check out the full interview after the jump.Ĭollider: Tell me a little bit about how you got involved in Parker. ![]() In addition, we got updates on Crank 3, Homeland and Hummingbird. He talked about Hackford’s approach to the action genre, what it took to pull off the stunts, what kind of movie he’d like to make in the future, stepping into the role of producer on Heat, whether he’ll ever direct a film, and more. The film also stars Jennifer Lopez, Michael Chiklis, Nick Nolte, Clifton Collins, Wendell Pierce and Micah Hauptman.ĭuring the recent Los Angeles press day I got to talk with Statham. When his team double crosses him on the job and leaves him for dead he tracks them to Palm Beach with a mission for vengeance. Parker doesn’t steal from people who can’t afford it, he doesn’t hurt people who don’t deserve it, and if you break his rules he will hunt you down and make you pay. Westlake (published under the pseudonym Richard Stark) the crime thriller stars Jason Statham as the title character, a professional thief with a strict personal code of ethics. Based on the novel Flashfire by Donald E. A scowling coiled-spring of an actor, he needs a Crank surrounding him just to keep up.Opening this weekend is director Taylor Hackford ’s (Ray) Parker. It's also every bit as stupid as it sounds.īut when the book is finally written on the career of Jason Statham it won't be the flashy Guy Ritchie debut (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) or the hard-nosed Bank Job he'll be remembered for. It's so amped up that High Voltage suffers its own energy shortage well before the finale. ![]() "Mighty white of you" is the one publishable put-down. The film presents the guy as a bigot at war with a world of gay and brown and yellow people. Gamers should be Crank's biggest fans.Ī good idea - a flashback to Chev's video-game-addicted youth, a violent lad worth interviewing on British tabloid TV, even at 12.Ī good idea abandoned - Chev's English slang, explained in captions, "Strawberry tart" (heart), "sausage Nigels" (figure it out). Here's the quest, here's who you have to kill to achieve it, here's your time limit. It's the closest thing the movies have ever seen to a video game transformed into a movie. Statham was defiantly unapologetic about doing these movies the one time I asked him about them - "I love those guys!" Those guys being co-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, jump-cut kings who chop-chop-chop until the movie jerks to life like Frankenstein's monster getting "the juice." The movie is a cartoon of action, slap-happy captions and subtitles, Looney Toons sound effects and horrific violence. Tarantino and company tried to make a Grindhouse movie. When he sodomizes a hefty villain with a shotgun in an early scene, you can't help but remember how amusingly amoral and over the top the original Crank was. And was that John de Lancie ( Star Trek's Q) as a cynical, profane newscaster?Īt every turn, Chev, the British-born hit man who is all but impossible to kill, slaps, stabs, punches and pistol whips everyone who gets in his way. Porn stars walk a porn star actor's picket line (Ron Jeremy among them) and David Carradine goofs on his Kung Fu miscasting (he's an aged Chinese gang lord). He has cars to hijack, Latin and Chinese villains to shoot or pound, cops to fend off and a little ice chest that he figures has his heart in it to retrieve.Ĭameos pepper this sequel. As is the nuttiest, trashiest hooker on the streets, Rai ( Bai Ling, taking a stereotype to hysterical extremes).Īnd Chev needs the help. Kaylo is dead, but his gay brother ( Efren Ramirez) who suffers from "full body Tourette's" is here to help Chev. Corey Haim is now the bouncer who watches over pole-dancer Eve ( Amy Smart, naked again, fearless and hilarious). Many characters from Crank take a second bow in this blast through a manic hour in L.A.'s strip clubs, brothels, horse tracks and gay bars.
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