RELATED: How Is Jason Statham Such A Don Despite Making Consistently Shit Films? A Good Reason For Walking Away From This PackageĪs low brow as his filmography might be – let’s not pretend Crank: High Voltage (2009), Gnomeo & Juliet (2011), or The Meg (2018) were robbed of any cinematic accolades – it’s more than understandable why Jason Statham would be unwilling to stake his reputation, plus the legacy of Frank Martin, on three potentially sub-par movies starting with The Transporter 5. “I would have loved to have done it, but you can’t really sign on without doing a script, and to sign on for three of them? And to get paid a pittance? I just couldn’t see the value in that.”
“But they wanted me to sign on and do three more movies without even seeing a script, and they offered me less money to do three than I’d get paid for one! So it was a business decision.” “You know what? It was obviously a great experience doing those films, and I would have loved to keep doing it,” Jason Statham explains during an interview with Vulture.
Here’s everything we know about The Transporter 5.Įverything We Know About The Transporter 5 Never Change The DealĪs it so happens, before the services of Game of Thrones alum Ed Skrein was enlisted for the soft-reboot The Transporter Refuelled circa 2015, the Stath was offered The Transporter 4 (which eventually became Refuelled), The Transporter 5, as well as The Transporter 6. The projects were assigned budgets ranging from US$30 million to US$40 million / AU$42 million to AU$56 million, with at least one of the films “likely to be set in China.” But as far as we can tell, apart from a single film fronted by an entirely different actor released in 2015 – more on this later – the Frank Martin saga is seemingly dead in the water. So why did the man behind former special-operations mercenary Frank Martin walk away from making The Transporter 5 around the same time he was committing to The Expendables 3 (2014), Fast & Furious 7 (2015), as well as Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)?īack in 2013, The Hollywood Reporter reported EuropaCorp and Fundamental Films would co-finance, produce, and distribute three instalments in The Transporter franchise post T3. While we’ll give some credit to Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), there’s no denying The Transporter franchise was what really catapulted Jason Statham into mainstream stardom and the cemented his status as a modern action star.
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