Filmmaker Guy Ritchie and actor Jason Statham are set to re-team again for a sixth time with the action-thriller “Viva La Madness”.
The film will be based on a novel of the same name by author J.J. Connolly. The novel is a direct sequel to his earlier book “Layer Cake” which became the well-regarded 2004 Daniel Craig-led and Matthew Vaughn-directed crime drama of the same name.
This film adaptation of ‘Madness’, however, will be a stand-alone and original feature with no ties to any previous adaptation of Connolly’s work.
The 2011 “Viva La Madness” book follows a once-powerful London drug dealer who has been living in exile in the Caribbean and is brought back to London’s underworld for a big score.
Teaming up with a pair of volatile British gangsters, he’s soon entangled in a labyrinth of drug deals, betrayals, and power plays stretching from London to Colombia.
Statham and Thomas Benski will produce the film, which begins shooting in January. Statham is currently the only cast member attached, and Ritchie set as writer and director.
The pair previously worked on “Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels,” “Snatch,” “Revolver,” “Wrath of Man” and “Operation Fortune.”.
Sourrce: Variety
