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2026 has been something of a disappointing year for Jason Statham, who came into the year hot after a pair of hits in 2024 and 2025. Two years ago, Statham worked with director David Ayer on The Beekeeper, the smash-hit action thriller that grossed over $160 million at the global box office. The sequel to the film is coming to theaters in the first few weeks of 2027, but it will not be directed by David Ayer — Timo Tjahjanto has been tapped to direct The Beekeeper 2 after Ayer had to leave the project due to a scheduling conflict. Statham and Ayer also found moderate success with A Working Man in 2025, and after the film doubled its $40 million budget at the box office, it’s now been a streaming hit for a full year on Paramount Plus.
Just because Jason Statham has struggled at the box office this year, though, doesn’t mean that’s always been the cast. Statham has starred in some massive movies over the years, some of which belong to bigger franchises and other original hits. However, the biggest movie of his career came back in 2015 when he starred in Furious 7, which grossed a whopping $1.5 billion at the global box office. Only $350 million of this cumulative total came from American earnings, with over $1.1 billion coming from international territories, where the F&F franchise has become one of the biggest in the world. Furious 7 has been streaming on Netflix for a few months now, but the streamer recently announced that the last day to watch the movie on the platform would be at the end of this month, on October 31. The film holds solid scores of 81% from critics and 82% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes.
Collider Exclusive · Action Franchise Quiz What Action Series Would You Thrive In? Wick · Fast · Mission · Die Hard
Four franchises. Four completely different ideas of what a hero is: the assassin with a code, the family that never leaves anyone behind, the man who does his own stunts, and the guy who simply refuses to die. Only one of them runs on your particular brand of trouble. Eight questions will tell you which one you would survive.
🐕Wick
🏁Fast
🧨Mission
🎄Die Hard
01
How does a room know you’ve walked into it? Every action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive.
02
It turns physical. What does your fighting actually look like? Choreography is character. Yours says something about you.
03
Who is standing beside you when it starts? Some franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone.
04
It has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright? Act two exists to find out what you’re actually made of.
05
There’s a vehicle. What are you driving, and how? No action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours.
06
How do you feel about the people giving the orders? There is always an institution. There is rarely a good one.
07
Underneath all of it, what are you actually doing this for? The stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay.
08
When the credits roll, what do people say about you? Every franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching.
Casting Has Been Completed Your Franchise Is…
Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.
John Wick · Chapters 1–4 · 2014–2023
John Wick
You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.
The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
against him.
You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
then completely immovable past it.
Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
and turning it into technique rather than noise.
People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
work.
The Fast and the Furious · Fast X · 2001–2023
Fast & Furious
You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.
This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
defend it past the point of reason.
You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.
Mission: Impossible · The Final Reckoning · 1996–2025
Mission: Impossible
You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.
This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
administrative error.
You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.
Die Hard · A Good Day to Die Hard · 1988–2013
Die Hard
You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.
Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
and then it makes you unstoppable.
You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.
Is Jason Statham Returning for ‘Fast Forever’?
Jason Statham is expected to reprise his role as Deckard Shaw in Fast Forever, which is currently slated to release in theaters on March 17, 2028. Statham briefly returned as Deckard Shaw in 2023’s Fast X, which teased a much larger role for him in the eleventh and final movie of the franchise. Returning to star alongside him is Dwayne Johnson as Luke Hobbs, whose return was also teased in a post-credit scene. Fast Forever is expected to begin filming later this year.
Check out Furious 7 before it’s removed from Netflix at the end of this month and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Jason Statham’s future projects.
