Jason Statham is on glowering, violent form in the first trailer for the British action thriller, Blitz…
There are two things that model-turned-hardman actor Jason Statham excels at: scowling, and beating people to within an inch of their lives.
While more low-key than The Expendables or Crank: High Voltage, Statham gets to do plenty of scowling and fighting in the forthcoming British thriller, Blitz. Working like a cross between David Fincher’s Seven and an episode of EastEnders, Blitz casts Statham as a tough Londoner on the trail of a sociopathic cop killer (who has a strange habit of wearing lime green novelty shades).
David Morrissey, Paddy Considine, Aidan Gillan and Luke Evans also star, and the script was adapted, from a Ken Bruen novel of the same name, by Nathan Parker, the writer behind Duncan Jones’ brilliant Moon.
Blitz is the second film from former music promo director Elliott Lester (his first was the 2006 drama Love Is The Drug), and judging by the trailer below, he’s created a gritty, kinetic action thriller with plenty of pithy dialogue – “I want a lawyer, I want a sandwich, and I want to update my Facebook status” is one of the better one-liners we’ve heard in a trailer this year.
Blitz is tentatively scheduled for release in the Summer of 2011.
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