Guy Ritchie, Vinnie Jones and Jason Statham will reunite once more for their new gangster movie, Viva La Madness.
After starring together in director Guy’s 2000 film snatch, the former footballer, 60, and Hollywood heavyweight, 58, are back together.
Filming is to start in the next few weeks, with Vinnie the latest star to join the cast, according to reports.
Jason will take on the part made famous by Daniel Craig in Matthew Vaughn’s 2004 cult hit, Layer Cake.
Now writer JJ Connolly is adapting his second novel, for film.
‘Viva La Madness is writer J.J. Connolly’s sequel to Layer Cake but the film is going to be a standalone production,’ a source told The Sun.
Guy Ritchie, Vinnie Jones and Jason Stathamwill reunite once more for their new gangster movie, Viva La Madness
Filming is to start in the next few weeks, with Vinnie the latest star to join the cast, according to reports
‘Guy is thrilled to be back at the helm. And to have Jason on board, as well as Vinnie, is going to make for cinematic gold.
‘This project feels so brilliantly British. It’s going to be loud, fast and unapologetically patriotic. Jason and Vinnie are so brilliant together on screen and everyone working on the film was thrilled to hear that Vinnie had signed up.’
Daily Mail has contacted Vinnie’s representatives for comment.
The plot of Viva La Madness is yet to be confirmed, but its source material continues the story of an anonymous London-based dealer X (Jason).
X has put his criminal activities behind him and moved to the Caribbean – only for two British gangsters to stir up trouble when they arrive on the island.
Vinnie has appeared in nearly 100 films since his mate Guy cast him as a brutal debt collector in Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels in 1998.
The former footballer’s latest string of success and fame comes after he rebuilt his troubled life, after battling cancer, alcoholism and grief after losing childhood sweetheart Tanya, who died in 2019 after 25 years of marriage.
After starring together in director Guy’s 2000 film snatch, the former footballer, 60, and Hollywood heavyweight, 58, are back together
Vinnie has appeared in nearly 100 films since his mate Guy cast him as a brutal debt collector in Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels in 1998
nnie has since made a return to the screen as part of The Gentlemen’s main cast. Commissioned by Netflix, the actor has been busy filming series two
Vinnie’s latest string of success and fame comes after he rebuilt his troubled life, after losing childhood sweetheart Tanya, who died in 2019 after 25 years of marriage (pictured 2013)
‘Losing Tanya has been the worst thing that’s ever happened to me and her family and friends, but I don’t want her loss to be in vain’, he said previously.
In the year’s following his wife’s death he did not appear in any films or scripts.
But Vinnie has since made a return to the screen as part of The Gentlemen’s main cast.
Commissioned by Netflix, it is a spin-off of the 2019 Guy Ritchie film of the same name, and is also directed by the British filmmaker.
The series also stars Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, and comedian Peter Serafinowicz.
Vinnie was spotted on set back in September, filming the second series as Geoffrey Seacombe, the long-serving gamekeeper of Halstead Manor.
