Following the success of last year’s The Beekeeper (which was among my Best Movies of 2024), Jason Statham is teaming up with a couple of old friends for his next film, A Working Man. Formerly titled Levon’s Trade and based on the novel by Batman comics writer Chuck Dixon, the film has a script by Statham’s Expendables pal, Sylvester Stallone, his first screenplay since 2019’s Rambo: Last Blood. Behind the camera is The Beekeeper director David Ayer. With those ingredients in place, you should have a pretty good idea of the violent action experience you’re in store for.
Statham plays ex-Black Ops agent Levon Cade who has given up a life of violence to raise his daughter and be a construction worker. But when his boss’s daughter, who is very close to him, vanishes without a trace, Levon is forced to dust off those old ass-kicking skills again, uncovering a vast criminal conspiracy.
Dixon has written a series of Levon Cade stories, so if A Working Man turns out to be a Beekeeper-sized hit expect to see sequels.
The film also stars David Harbour, Michael Pena, Jason Flemyng, and Arianna Rivas.
Amazon MGM Studios will release A Working Man in theaters on March 28th.
“Levon Cade (Statham) left his “profession” behind him to go straight and work in construction. He wants to live a simple life and be a good father to his daughter (Gie). But when his boss’s teenage daughter Jenny (Rivas) vanishes, he’s called upon to re-employ the skills that made him a legendary figure in the shadowy world of black ops. His hunt for the missing college student takes him deep into the heart of a sinister criminal conspiracy, creating a chain reaction that will threaten his new way of life.”
