They’ve promised a sequel with a bigger Statham presence and everyone involved wants to make it, but we’ll probably never see it due to a studio that clearly isn’t interested…
Jason Statham has become a Hollywood movie star thanks to his muscle-bound roles, from the Transport Sagas to the Expendables, including Fast & Furious. However, after some box office failures, studios are known to have second thoughts when it comes to investing large sums of money in his projects.
However, the actor is not short of work, and he was recently seen in the film The Beekeeper, which, despite good reviews from the public – and an audience rating of 3 out of 5 from AlloCiné – was not considered a success and will not help him. Revived a project that had been trying to move forward for years…
Fans will remember her hilarious supporting role in 2015’s Spy, the Paul Feig comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and Jude Law. Its success at the box office was undeniable as the film grossed no less than $235 million internationally against a budget of $65 million. The British comedian wanted to reprise the role of Rick Ford, his comedic version of The Perfect Spy, and production on a sequel quickly began, but the project ultimately fell through.
Everyone wants to do it… except the studio
If Paul Feig He is not going to make a sequel to his cult film “My Best Friends”, although he is ready to make it Spy 2However, he also admitted that things were not looking too good because “The studio has no interest” on its production. The interesting thing is that the director himself promised this years ago Jason Statham There would be much more in the second part, but it didn’t (yet?) reach its goal.
In a 2021 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Jason Statham revealed that at this point in his career he just wanted to work.With directors who know what they are doing“, names Feig as one of them and emphasizes that he really wanted A Spy 2… Perhaps the problem is that when Disney bought Fox, the Mickey Mouse company didn’t see a follow-up project as economically viable.
And it won’t be for lack of persistence, because Melissa McCarthy Said last year during an interview on the ‘Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel’ podcast (discover below): “We all want it. I don’t know what else to do. Please know that I am trying. I’m trying“
A desire the actress mentioned again after the last Olympics when she retweeted a fan’s comment on her Instagram story. The comment reads: “I Need a Spy 2, where Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham pretend to be Olympic breakdancers from fantasyland“, to which the actor replied:Um, yes please!!!“A word to the wise…
a spy It offered the public a hilarious entertainment, introducing the parody world of James Bond, which still has a lot to offer. We can always hope that a sequel will eventually see the light of day… with a little more persistence!
Meanwhile, the comedy can be rediscovered streaming on Disney+.
Source: Allocine
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