In recent years, Jason Statham has become one of Hollywood's most bankable action stars, starring in action-driven films like "The Mechanic" (2011) and its sequel in 2016, The Expendables franchise, "The Meg" (2018), "Spy" (2015) and "Wrath of Man" (2021). He is also part of the "Fast & Furious" franchise appearing in five, soon to be in 6 of the soon-to-be-10 movies. But in 2013, he will be starring in four movies and these include "The Meg 2:The Trench", "The Expendables 4", "Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre" and of course "Fast X"
The Expendables 4 will se Statham returning alongside Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren and Randy Couture as the infamous mercenary team with Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Tony Jaa, Megan Fox, Iko Uwais and Andy Garcia joining the cast. This film is said to be Stallone's send-off from the series allowing Statham to potentially take over. Will be released on September 22nd, 2023.
"Operation Fortune" will be the fifth collaboration between Statham and director Guy Ritchie. The film is said to involve around Statham's MI6 agent and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood's big movie stars to stop a billionaire arms dealer from selling a deadly weapons technology that could threaten the world order. Along side Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Bugzy Malone, Hugh Grant and Cary Elwes will round out the cast. Initially the movie was set to be released in March 2022, but was pulled, apparently because of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, thus speculating it's because there are Ukrainian baddies in the film.
The first movie was a surprise hit and the studio wanted to a sequel with Ben Wheatley in the director's chair, Statham also reprises his role as Jonas from the first movie, no plot details though.
Lastly there is "Fast X" which will see Statham reprise his role as Deckard Shaw. His involvement was teased in the Post-Credit Scene of the last movie which see him come face-to-face with Han (Sung Kang), the man who he thought he had killed. In June 2022, his involvement was further teased by cast member Tyrese Gibson, but it's unclear if his role will be as large as the film will have a large cast including Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, John Cena, Gibson, Ludacris, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Kang, Scott Eastwood, Jason Momoa, Helen Mirren, Brie Larson, Alan Ritchson, Rita Moreno and Charlize Theron.
