For the last six months or so, Eastern Promises screenwriter Steven Knight has been putting together Hummingbird, which he wants to be his directorial debut (well, he helmed a few episodes of the Jasper Carrot sitcom The Detectives in the early 90s, but that doesn’t count).
The film’s just got a little closer to happening as Variety reports that Jason Statham has signed up to star. He will play a former Special Forces solider who’s gotten involved in London’s grimy criminal underworld. However he wants out and when he gets the chance to take a identity, he embraces it and becomes an avenging angel looking to take down wrongdoers.
Knight hopes to shoot the movie early next year, between lucrative assignments punching up Hollywood scripts (he’s done work on everything from Wrath of The Titans to The Lost Symbol).
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
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