The Brazilian Job

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October 25, 2009

Jason Mentions Today

Posted by jayfan under 13, The Brazilian Job, The Expendables, The Italian Job, The Mechanic
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126a‘The Italian Job’ director, F. Gary Gray was asked by SuburbanChicagoNews.com about a sequel and this was his answer.

Everyone involved just wants to make sure that the sequel is better than the original. So now the challenge is to try and come up with something that will top it and make sure people walk away having just as much fun as they did with the first one. But it would be great to get everyone together. All of the actors [Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Seth Green, Jason Statham, Mos Def, Donald Sutherland] have branched out and have become leads now. What a cast.

I almost forgot that Donald Sutherland was in that movie with Jason.  Now they’re supposedly teaming up again in ‘The Mechanic’!  I only hope they get the Italian Job sequel off and running before anybody bites the dust or something.  Doh!

821270hDigitalSpy.com talked briefly to 50 Cent about his acting career and he named Jason as one of the heavyweight talents that he’s been able to work with.  But what’s ponderous about this article is that 50 called the movie Twelve and not 13?  That’s news to me.  IMDB.com still lists the movie under 13.525b

And finally, Collider.com has an Expendables update, complete with stills from the movie and excerpts from posts and tweets by Sheryl Main, the unit publicist of the film.  Nothing more about Jason…just about the shooting yesterday with the Holy Trinity–Sly, Arnold and Bruce.

 

August 21, 2009

A Couple Fan Finds

Posted by jayfan under News About Jason Statham, The Brazilian Job
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Thanks to StathamFan for finding a video on TV3.ie , Goldie for this Sun article and Messtaken for this from DigitalSpy.  Of course, as StathamFan pointed out, Jason Flemyng said in the video that it was not a birthday party, but rather a welcome back to London bash for his pal.  Also, The Sun is a gossip rag and I don’t know if I put much faith in anything it says.  I would like to believe that they will start filming ‘The Brazilian Job’ later this year, but I’ll believe it when I see it reported.  (Just an observation, even though I can’t find the pics, but that blonde looks like the one he had coffee with last August 2008.  I did a  post about it, but the photos have disappeared off the image sites.  I saved them, but they are very small.)

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March 20, 2009

Jason Mention

Posted by jayfan under News About Jason Statham, The Brazilian Job
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425cJason sort of made a list of people with star power who are “candidates with future major-player status”.  From an article at San Jose’s Mercury News which first listed the losers, they gave us names of those they thought were primed to be in the group of the galaxy of stars.  We’ve known for a long time that Jason has always belonged on that list.  No surprise to us!

Clearly, it’s time to recognize the new breed pounding at the door.

Among other candidates for future major-player status: Amy Adams, the Judd Apatow stable (Michael Cera, Rudd, Segel, Seth Rogen), Isla Fisher, Daniel Craig, Kirsten Dunst, Toby Maguire, Ben Stiller, Jake Gyllenhaal, Christian Bale, Tyler Perry, JASON STATHAM, Zac Efron, Katherine Heigl, Josh Brolin and Claire Danes.

 

March 9, 2009

Handsome Rob Revisited?

Posted by jayfan under The Brazilian Job, The Italian Job
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ComingSoon.net talked to the producer of ‘The Italian Job’, Donald De Line and among other things, asked him about ‘The Brazilian Job’.

On another note, we were curious whether there was any word on a sequel to De Line’s 2003 hit caper remake The Italian Job, which brought together Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Ed Norton, Donald Sutherland, Jason Statham, Seth Green and Mos Def. Over the years, all of them have been asked about whether the proposed sequel The Brazilian Job might happen, and De Line gave hope for it finally rolling forward. “We’re trying right now. They all want to do the sequel. We have a version at Paramount that we’re talking very serious about, so hopefully, if we’re lucky in the next year we can pull it together. They’re all very successful and very busy, which is great, but they all have a real affection and passion for that movie, so they want to come back and do another, which is nice. We’ll get them together hopefully.”

 

November 26, 2008

‘T3’ Reviews

Posted by jayfan under The Brazilian Job, Transporter III
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You know I don’t like to post negative reviews of Jason’s movies.  Yes…I’m biased and I like it that way.  Here’s a couple of good reviews from the Baltimore Sun and Detroit Free Press.  Even bad reviewers couldn’t help talking about the best part of the movie which is Jason.

“Transporter 3’s” sole reason for existing is to bask in Statham’s wryly manly aura. The film clearly recognizes that he has become a sex symbol, wasting no opportunity to get his shirt off so that the camera can run its lens up and down his impressive abs.

 I have a theory: They enjoy the company of Statham. I certainly do.

Statham could do these movies in his sleep by now, so he gets credit for offering up so much dry wit. In fact, while Rudakova makes a painful acting debut, Statham appears more engaged than he has in a while.

 

October 14, 2008

A Jason Mention

Posted by jayfan under News About Jason Statham, The Brazilian Job, The Italian Job
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Thanks to JJ for finding this Jason mention last night!  It’s from BritFilms.tv where the producer of ‘The Italian Job’ talks about still going ahead with ‘The Brazilian Job’.  What he and writer say is actually very post-worthy.

“We just had a conversation with Paramount about it last week and we’re working on it and I hope, fingers crossed, we get it to the starting gate,” said De Line. “It’s not a done deal, but we’re trying very hard. Fingers crossed, within the next year, it’s something we can start up.”

Do the actors have it in their contracts to return? “They don’t have it in their contracts, but they all want to,” he said. “We’re talking to Mark [Wahlberg], Charlize [Theron] and Jason [Statham], Seth [Green] and Mos [Def], the whole crew.”

So the old gang could be back, but could the film have enough space for all of them? Since the first ‘Job’ that was based on the first ‘Job’ Jason Statham in particular has come a long way. Would he really settle for the small role of Handsome Rob? Or would he get a bit more time in the spotlight? Because in all honestly Statham has now become just as appealing on screen as Marky Mark.

 

September 10, 2008

‘Brazilian Job’ Holdup

Posted by jayfan under The Brazilian Job, The Italian Job
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The Movie Blog.com has a quote from Seth Green when he talked to Entertainment Weekly.  He explains why there’s been such a holdup on filming of the sequel to ‘The Italian Job’, ‘The Brazilian Job’. 

Seth says:

That’s been listed as ‘In Production’ for over four years, and maybe you’ll print this and someone will actually stop saying that!” he says. “There are a couple of scripts that have been written, but in the last six years since we made the movie, Paramount’s hierarchy has changed hands four times and it’s never seemed to be a priority for the studio to make the movie.” With the success of the film’s cast (Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron have been nominated for Oscars, Mos Def for an Emmy, and Jason Statham hit big with his Transporter series), says Green, “You would think that they would make the movie. There’s enough of a fan outcry for it, but we just haven’t been able to get the studio to greenlight it.”

 

July 11, 2008

French Release

Posted by jayfan under The Brazilian Job
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Thanks to gecko for the heads up on ‘The Bank Job’ release in France!  She tells us via email that the movie will open theatrically there on August 6th.  She also sent me the French movie poster to share with all of you!

 

June 18, 2008

Jason Interview Repeat

Posted by jayfan under Crank 2, Death Race, News About Jason Statham, The Brazilian Job, The Italian Job
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Ugo.com has the Jason interview I posted on June 4th talking about everything and anything.  They’ve released it again, I guess because trailers for ‘Death Race’ and ‘Transporter 3’ were just released and people’s interests in these movies have grown.

 

June 9, 2008

Blogger Talks About Jason

Posted by jayfan under Crank 2, Death Race, Fan Gushing, News About Jason Statham, The Brazilian Job, Transporter III
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I found a cute little blog called Television Without Pity, Spare the Snark, Spoil the Networks (Love that!) with a post that mentions Jason.  She just talks about everything we know about, but she’s definitely a Jason fangirl.  The ‘snark’ is not so ‘snarky’ and she’s pretty hilarious.  I have to post her opening remarks because they made me snicker.

Jason Statham certainly has been staying busy lately. He just wrapped up filming on Paul W.S. Anderson’s Death Race and a third Transporter movie, he’s currently working on a Crank sequel (which, regrettably, is not called Crankier), and The Brazilian Job is finally set to begin production. The latter is not the story of an extreme crotch wax gone horribly wrong, but a long talked-about sequel to 2003’s The Italian Job. Lucky they’re finally getting on with that; if they’d waited a few more years his character “Handsome Rob” might have had to change his nickname to “Aging Rob.” All in all, it’s not a bad time to be Jason Statham.

 

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