Even during the festive season, action movie iconJason Stathamcontinues to dominate. Thanks to roles in the likes ofThe Beekeeper, The Transporter, The Mechanic,and theFast and Furiousmovies, Statham has proven time and again how adept he is at driving his fist into your face. But, the actor has also proven how funny he can be while doing that, with his 2015 action-comedySpynow landing in the global Top 10 onNetflix.
Written and directed by Paul Feig,Spystars The Stath alongside Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jude Law, Miranda Hart, and Bobby Cannavale, and follows a CIA analyst who has spent her entire career as a desk jockey suddenly being thrown into the field and going undercover to capture an arms dealer and avenge the death of the organization’s best agent.Spyremains one of Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, and Paul Feig’s highest rated movies, with the action-comedy outing standing at a hugely impressive 95% rating from critics and a 78% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes. You can check out the official synopsis for the action outing below.
“Despite having solid field training, CIA analyst Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) has spent her entire career as a desk jockey, working hand-in-hand with dashing agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law). Using high-tech equipment and a hidden earpiece, Susan is the guardian angel who helps Bradley avoid danger. However, when Bradley is assassinated by Bulgarian arms dealer Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne), Susan wrangles her way into her first undercover assignment to help capture Boyanov and avenge Bradley.”
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Despite being one of the best movies in the respective repertoires of Statham, McCarthy, and Feig,Spystill has not had a sequel. While Feig has teased a follow-up in the past, even revealing that Statham would be front-and-center alongside McCarthy in a potentialSpy 2, nothing has yet come to pass. Feig said back in 2016:
“That’s another world that I don’t want to walk away from. It’s the first thing I did that I set up to be a possible franchise and Melissa is dying to do it. I have a story for it, and a funny idea that will kick it off that involves Statham. Susan Cooper is one of my favourite characters I’ve ever come up with, but Rick Ford is possibly the one I’ll take to the grave with me. Will he get any more self-aware in the sequel? No, god no. He’ll get less self-aware.”
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“You’ve got a knife? I’ve got a spoon.”
However, while nothing is official, one fan of the movierevealed their idea forSpy 2earlier this year. Back in August, and during the height of the Olympics, X/Twitter user @AshDylanLit offered their thoughts on a follow-up, which would find McCarthy’s Susan Cooper and Statham’s Rick Ford going undercover as break dancing Olympians. Inspired by the hilarious, viral performance by Australian B-Girl Raygun at the breakdancing event, the idea forSpy 2would follow Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham going “undercover as Olympics breakdancers from a made-up country.” It’s clearly the perfect set-up for a sequel. So perfect, in fact, that Melissa McCarthy herself even responded, saying, “Ummm YES PLEASE!!!!”
While he doesn’t have any more comedies on the horizon (yet), Jason Statham does have plenty of action movie fare in the pipeline,includingLevon’s TradeandMutiny.
