Written and directed by Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans, Prince of Persia), Jason Statham’s next film, Safe, sees him return once more to our screens in the kind of role we all know and love him for, with which he brings us something familiar yet slightly different each time around. And as always, it’s something to look forward to.
With its release just under two months away at the start of May, Zoo have the UK poster to share with us, which sees him set against the New York City skyline, gun in hand.
“A second-rate cage fighter on the mixed martial arts circuit, Luke Wright lives a numbing life of routine beatings and chump change… until the day he blows a rigged fight. Wanting to make an example of him, the Russian Mafia murders his family and banishes him from his life forever, leaving Luke to wander the streets of New York destitute, haunted by guilt, and tormented by the knowledge that he will always be watched, and anyone he develops a relationship with will also be killed.
But when he witnesses a frightened twelve-year-old Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same gangsters who killed his wife, Luke impulsively jumps to action?and straight into the heart of a deadly high-stakes war. Mei, he discovers, is no ordinary girl, but an orphaned math prodigy forced to work for the Triads as a “counter.” He discovers she holds in her memory a priceless numerical code that the Triads, the Russian mob and a corrupt faction of the NYPD will kill for.
Realizing he’s the only person Mei can trust, Luke tears a swath through the city’s brutal underworld to save an innocent girl’s life… and perhaps even redeem his own.”
As the new poster notes, Safe counts amongst its producers three-time Oscar-nominated Lawrence Bender (Inglourious Basterds, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill: Vols. 1 and 2), along with Kevin Spacey and his Trigger Street Productions partner, Dana Brunetti (The Social Network).
Safe will be coming to cinemas in the US on 27th April (a week before The Avengers), and coming to the UK a week later on 4th May (a week after we get The Avengers). Here’s to hoping that Statham has another great action-crime-thriller on his hands. If you’d like to catch up on our coverage of the film so far, including the latest hard-hitting TV spot/minute-long trailer, then you can click right here.
