Not having Jason Statham is by itself a big burden due to Ed Skrein still fails to live up to the Statham persona. But in doing so they really pitted Ed Skrein with the old Jason Statham performance, on which everyone can really choose who's the winner. They only tried so hard to recreate the Jason Statham's Frank Martin persona with the mannerisms and the unique fight sequences. The people behind the creative process for this movie clearly didn't know what they were doing. But doing this movie without any of the previous trilogy's creative minds is really a big mistake.
It really had the huge risk of at least deliver something equivalent of the original trilogy. He's not the first action star to vacate a successful franchise, either - these actors, below, also let the show go on without them.It's sad to see this movie flop this bad, really. The actor recognized a bad deal when he saw it, thus made the call to cut ties. Statham's presense is a major part of the first three Transporter films, so it's strange that he wouldn't even be offered a script before committing. 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 films 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. Statham was approached to take part in the film, and told Vulture why he decided to pass on reprising the role: It was obviously a great experience doing those films, and I would have loved to keep doing it. So, was the original actor simply too old to play the part? Why isn't Jason Statham in The Transporter: Refueled ?Īge has nothing to do with the recasting of Frank Martin.
Skein plays a younger version of Martin in this prequel. This one stars former Game Of Thrones actor Ed Skrein, who was himself recast in that show with Michiel Huisman. After playing the most badass courier in existence for three Transporter movies, Statham is not Frank Martin in the new film. But you've probably noticed that he's not the man incapacitating gangsters and hot-tubbing with half-naked women in the trailer for The Transporter: Refueled, opening in theaters Friday. Jason Statham spent this summer running the box office with Furious 7, so he definitely hasn't hung up his action star uniform.
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