I saw the headline of this on IMDB.com the other day and thought that I should put this on here, and coincidentally I was thinking the other day "why don't the filmmaking powers that be do another Mechanic film?" and this has answered this question for me thankfully
According to a post on Heat Vision on The Hollywood Reporters' website that posted on 7th November Dennis Gansel will be directing the new film and that Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones and Michelle Yeoh (you may or may not recognise her from "The Mummy:Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor as she played Zi Yuang the woman who curses all of the dragon emperors troops to turn into terracotta soldiers, and she was also in "Tomorrow Never Dies" who played Wai Lin the agent who works with James Bond in China to locate Elliot Carvers' stealth boat amongst other films she's been in), are set to join Jason Statham who will be back to play Arthur Bishop who if you haven't seen the original film stars Jason Statham as a hitman/mechanic that is employed by a private contracting firm that do hit man assignments all around the globe, Bishop is trained to be one of these mechanics by Donald Sutherland who plays Harry McKenna who is in a wheelchair and he has a deadbeat son Steve McKenna played by Ben Foster ( who you may not recognise from "Hostage" with Bruce Willis, he is the insane friend of the robbers who break in to steal money but he kills the two brothers who wanted to break in to steal the money then takes over and turns the whole thing into a hostage situation), who knows that his dad is a mechanic and he knows about Bishop, but it isn't until Steve's dad dies that Steve teams up with Bishop to learn the tricks of the trade so he can get whoever killed his dad,-but what he doesn't know is that Arthur Bishop was set up by the company that both him and his dad work for to kill Harry McKenna-.
These mentioned films are really good action films that are really cleverly written especially "The Mechanic", and that have really good twists to them especially "The Mechanic" I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it but all I will say is the ending is really good...and of course if you get the chance to watch any of these films you should.
Anyhew....according to Heat Vision this film will follow the story of Arthur Bishop as he struggles to fulfil a contract on a list of targets which just happen to be some of the most dangerous men in the world.
Summit will release this next instalment in the Millenium Films action franchise on January 22nd 2016 with principal photography already starting back on November 4th in Bangkok, Thailand.
William Chartoff, David Winkler John Thompson and Frank DeMartini are producing Avi Lerner is executive producing.
And I have just read the most exciting news that Michelle Yeoh will be returning in the sequel to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
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