Jason Statham, professional movie badass, has officially joined the upcoming sequel to the 2004 film, Layer Cake. Deadline has reported that Viva La Madness is currently in the works and that Statham has taken on the nameless lead role that was originally played by Daniel Craig in the first film.
Layer Cake and its sequel, Viva La Madness, were written by J.J. Connolly. “Layer Cake” was released in 200o while “Viva La Madness” hit shelves in 2011. The official description of the novel is as follows:
“From the many levels of the London underworld portrayed in ‘Layer Cake,’ ‘Viva la Madness’ moves to international crime with trans-Atlantic drug deals, money laundering and high-tech electronic fraud, portrayed with the same uncanny believability. The anonymous hero of ‘Layer Cake’ is pulled back into the drug game before he can escape to a sunny retirement: in an authentic but dazzling combination of London low-life, Caribbean high-life and Venezuelan drug cartels toting machine-guns in Mayfair. The brilliance and the madness is back: ‘Viva la madness!’
Statham will produce Viva La Madness alongside Steve Chasman through their SJ Pictures. There is no word on whether any of the original actors from the first film will return or if a whole new cast will be set.
