Berlin buyers love a clean, loud pitch: a star whose name travels, a director with a reliable action grammar, and a title that basically writes the one-sheet for you. That’s the lane “Jason Statham Stole My Bike” is trying to own as it lands at the European Film Market as a big-ticket action-comedy, with Black Bear on sales and domestic, and David Leitch set to direct.
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The headline here is the reunion. Leitch and Jason Statham last teamed on “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw,” the 2019 spinoff that scaled Leitch’s stunt-world precision up to franchise size and reminded the industry that “two-hour global crowd-pleaser” can still be a craft problem, not just a marketing one. This new package is being positioned for commercially oriented buyers at EFM—i.e., the kind of film designed to sell on a name, a tone, and an engine, long before anyone debates prestige.
And while the name alone flirts with a self-referential “Being John Malkovich” kind of meta-gag, that’s purely us reading the tea leaves of the hook—what’s being sold here, for now, is a Berlin-ready Leitch/Statham package built to travel.
Details beyond the packaging are being kept close. What’s public, per the reporting, is the framework: Statham starring, Leitch directing, and Leitch producing alongside Kelly McCormick. That pairing has become its own mini-brand in the last decade—projects that treat fights and gags as part of the same choreography, where the punchline is often the punch.
And Leitch is an especially tidy fit for a title like this because his action work is already proven across “Deadpool 2,” “Bullet Train,” and the four-quadrant crowd-pleaser “The Fall Guy,” a run that’s basically a résumé for turning star charisma, clean choreography, and broad comedy into something that plays in any room.
No release date has been set yet. More when we get it.
