Jason Statham will star in the $40 million action thriller “Killer Elite,” based on Ranulph Fiennes‘ bestseller “The Feathermen“, reports Variety.
The story follows a group of former British special forces members who are being hunted by assassins. Statham is set to play a former SAS who is forced out of retirement to save his closest friend.
The film will be directed by commercials director Gary McKendry who only has the 2004 film “Everthing in This Country Must” under his directorial belt.
Filming is scheduled to begin this autumn in London, Paris and Australia.
Statham is currently working on the Sylvester Stallone directed actioner “The Expendables.”
this movie will rock
Dear Sirs,
It is unfortunate that more protest was not made by the Special Forces Community about the Feathermen when it was first released in 1991.
Clearly the author is attempting to re-write SAS History and uses a brave soldier who cannot answer back for financial reward.
Mike Kealy should be remembered for his courageous action during the Battle for Mirbat in 1972 and his sad death in the Brecon Beacons from exposure in appaling conditions and not at the hands of a fiction writer.
We must let the public know that Mike Kealy and others did not die at the hands of some hit squad. The Adoo in Dhofar, Oman were beaten fairly and squarely and most of them eventually surrendered and worked in Firqat Forces for the Sultan.
The author , film crew, actors and the ex SAS advisors to this film should be ashamed that they are denigrating a real soldier whilst they hide behind a fictional world and have no care or consideration for the relatives grief.
Mike Colton
– Mike Colton – Allied Special Forces Association, Hereford UK, 17/7/2010 08:48
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