Member AlbertV Posted May 20, 2013 Member Share Posted May 20, 2013 Dark Horizons: EuropaCorp and Fundamental Films are set to co-produce three more installments of the "Transporter" film franchise. The fourth, fifth and six films will be budgeted in the $30-40 million range each. One of the three installments will likely lense in China where Fundamental is based. EuropaCorp CEO Christophe Lambert says Fox will have a first-look and Lionsgate a second-look on the three films. No word as yet if Jason Statham will reprise his role as Frank Martin in the projects. No director is yet attached for the fourth film. Luc Besson and Mark Gao will produce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member newgen2005 Posted May 20, 2013 Member Share Posted May 20, 2013 Great news, wouldn't be the same without Jason Statham though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted May 21, 2013 Member Share Posted May 21, 2013 Hope JS does it, too. At least the 4th one so he can redeem himself for the atrocious fiasco the 3rd film was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ToryK Posted May 21, 2013 Member Share Posted May 21, 2013 This is how it goes in my dreams: Bring back Statham, Besson steps in as director, they bring over Jung Doo-hong for action choreography, cast Cyril as Statham's physical adversary. That would more than make up for the third one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Sevket Posted May 21, 2013 Member Share Posted May 21, 2013 I hope Statham returns for this one as Transporter is the film that made him a legit action star Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted May 21, 2013 Member Share Posted May 21, 2013 This is how it goes in my dreams: Bring back Statham, Besson steps in as director, they bring over Jung Doo-hong for action choreography, cast Cyril as Statham's physical adversary. That would more than make up for the third one. You....are....a.....GENIUS!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted February 7, 2014 Author Member Share Posted February 7, 2014 Hollywood Reporter has announced that Transporter 4 has been given the greenlight....that's the good news... now for the bad news...Jason Statham is NOT returning for the installments, but instead it will serve as a reboot/prequel, which will focus on how Frank Martin becomes The Transporter. If it does well, parts 5 & 6 will be official China co-productions, but it all depends on how #4 pans out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShaOW!linDude Posted February 7, 2014 Member Share Posted February 7, 2014 No Statham? My wife is NOT happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member massa_yoda Posted February 8, 2014 Member Share Posted February 8, 2014 now for the bad news...Jason Statham is NOT returning for the installments, but instead it will serve as a reboot/prequel, which will focus on how Frank Martin becomes The Transporter. Because, ya know, clearly this is a franchise crying for an origin-story reboot.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Secret Executioner Posted February 8, 2014 Member Share Posted February 8, 2014 They're "rebooting" it to have an "origin" story ? Jason Bourne anyone ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted February 9, 2014 Author Member Share Posted February 9, 2014 Meet the young Frank Martin... Former 'Game of Thrones' actor Ed Skrein will take over as the Transporter in the fourth installment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted August 4, 2014 Author Member Share Posted August 4, 2014 It is official: The next Transporter film will be hitting theaters on March 6, 2015. The title? The Transporter Legacy. Ed Skrein plays the young Frank Martin, the role made famous by Jason Statham in the original trilogy of films from 2002-2008. Here's the plot of the film: Frank crosses paths with Anna (Loan Chabanol), a crime boss who decides Frank is the man to take down a group of ruthless Russian human traffickers. Anna takes Frank's father (Ray Stevenson) as leverage to ensure his cooperation and both of them are forced to work with Anna to bring the villains to justice. Radivoje Bukvic, Gabriella Wright, Anatole Taubman and Tatiana Pajkovic also star. Bill Collage and Adam Cooper penned the script. BRICK MANSIONS director Camille Delamarre directed the film. This is the first of three new films that will serve as "prequels" to the original...I wonder where Luc Besson got that idea? (cough)Star Wars(cough) I will not be surprised if someone like Cyril Raffaelli will serve as action director since he is the action director on the TV series version with Chris Vance as Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted September 15, 2014 Author Member Share Posted September 15, 2014 The first photo of Ed Skrein is up...remember he's playing the younger version of Jason Statham's Frank Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Secret Executioner Posted September 15, 2014 Member Share Posted September 15, 2014 That car behind him looks way too current. Hell, I don't think it had started being produced when the last Transporter film came out - was the first trilogy set in the future ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ToryK Posted September 15, 2014 Member Share Posted September 15, 2014 That car behind him looks way too current. Hell, I don't think it had started being produced when the last Transporter film came out - was the first trilogy set in the future ? It's probably gonna be a Casino Royale-kinda gig. A prequel/reboot set in the present. Honestly, it never even crossed my mind that they'd set this thing in the 80's or whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted March 20, 2015 Author Member Share Posted March 20, 2015 I posted the teaser trailer on the main page...I'm not thrilled...looks like choppy editing and close ups extreme again...Besson needs to teach his proteges a thing or two about editing, seriously. The film's official release date is June 19 and the official title is: The Transporter Refueled (Changed title on thread already to reflect it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted April 5, 2015 Author Member Share Posted April 5, 2015 Jason Statham revealed that he was offered to return to the role of Frank Martin but revealed why he decided to turn down the offer: "It was obviously a great experience doing those films, and I would have loved to keep doing it. But they wanted me to sign on and do three more films without even seeing a script, and they offered me less money to do three than I'd get paid for one! So it was a business decision." This is why Besson has opted for a reboot/prequel and has cast Ed Skrein in the role of Frank Martin. The film will now be released in September rather than June 19. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted July 1, 2015 Author Member Share Posted July 1, 2015 Full trailer is out weqzAM5LCIY Still not thrilled about it, but I did like the action sweep cam at 2:22...I can actually see WTH is going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted October 3, 2015 Moderator Share Posted October 3, 2015 A glowing review from the guys over at Twitch - http://twitchfilm.com/2015/09/review-the-transporter-refueled-still-out-of-gas.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Hei Meigui Posted October 3, 2015 Member Share Posted October 3, 2015 Not surprised it didn't review well. It's hard when you have a franchise that has really been tied to one person. It's not even that I think Jason is such a great actor in the series but he's so good in the part (I'm not sure if that make sense!) It's kind of like the Bourne Identity really making you always think of Matt Damon.The only Franchise able to do it right has been all of the Bond films.Ahhhh The good old days!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nafEbgWGXdk I love the "stiff headed side look" he does!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Secret Executioner Posted October 3, 2015 Member Share Posted October 3, 2015 What f**kin' pile of crap !! This movie is just awful, maybe the worst I've seen this year (Jurassic World could be worse, but I haven't seen the actual thing) : the characters are uninteresting and very interchangeable (the girls are LITERALLY interchangeable since they dress up to look all the same, but they really have no distinct traits whatsoever), the story is confused and badly executed, the only remotely good stuff is the car chase in Monaco that you already have in the trailer (the French one does, not sure about foreign ones). And the best part: were there iPads and this car model in the movie timeframe ? Nope, the movie is set in 2010 but you have technology (like a model of smartphone from 2013) and cars from the past couple of years (the car is the 2014 model). FAIL, imagine if it had been set in Jason Statham's character's youth... I didn't know Luc Besson was involved until seeing his name in the end credits, but since I can't stomach him, it doesn't surprise me this film did little to nothing on me except annoy me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Hei Meigui Posted October 4, 2015 Member Share Posted October 4, 2015 What f**kin' pile of crap !! This movie is just awful, maybe the worst I've seen this year (Jurassic World could be worse, but I haven't seen the actual thing) : the characters are uninteresting and very interchangeable (the girls are LITERALLY interchangeable since they dress up to look all the same, but they really have no distinct traits whatsoever), the story is confused and badly executed, the only remotely good stuff is the car chase in Monaco that you already have in the trailer (the French one does, not sure about foreign ones). And the best part: were there iPads and this car model in the movie timeframe ? Nope, the movie is set in 2010 but you have technology (like a model of smartphone from 2013) and cars from the past couple of years (the car is the 2014 model). FAIL, imagine if it had been set in Jason Statham's character's youth... I didn't know Luc Besson was involved until seeing his name in the end credits, but since I can't stomach him, it doesn't surprise me this film did little to nothing on me except annoy me. SE you really need to work on expressing yourself better!! I'm really not sure how you felt about this movie!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member FilmMomatic Posted October 4, 2015 Member Share Posted October 4, 2015 What f**kin' pile of crap !! This movie is just awful, maybe the worst I've seen this year (Jurassic World could be worse, but I haven't seen the actual thing) : the characters are uninteresting and very interchangeable (the girls are LITERALLY interchangeable since they dress up to look all the same, but they really have no distinct traits whatsoever), the story is confused and badly executed, the only remotely good stuff is the car chase in Monaco that you already have in the trailer (the French one does, not sure about foreign ones). And the best part: were there iPads and this car model in the movie timeframe ? Nope, the movie is set in 2010 but you have technology (like a model of smartphone from 2013) and cars from the past couple of years (the car is the 2014 model). FAIL, imagine if it had been set in Jason Statham's character's youth... I didn't know Luc Besson was involved until seeing his name in the end credits, but since I can't stomach him, it doesn't surprise me this film did little to nothing on me except annoy me. I laughed from beginning to end when watching this movie. So I guess that's something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Secret Executioner Posted October 4, 2015 Member Share Posted October 4, 2015 SE you really need to work on expressing yourself better!! I'm really not sure how you felt about this movie!!Haven't been writing reviews in a couple of months, so I may have lost it a bit. Good thing I'm practicing a bit before posting my two reviews for the monthly review thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member KenHashibe Posted November 13, 2015 Member Share Posted November 13, 2015 I laughed from beginning to end when watching this movie. So I guess that's something.Same. I thought this movie was amazing. It's a terrible movie, but I still thought it was a lot of fun. Even though Ed Skrein was supposed to play the same character that Jason Statham played, I thought he looked/acted differently enough that he seems like his own character. I posted this mini-review a while back on the Chamber Discussion on the home page of SC36: "The Transporter Refueled is decent at best. I'd say there's enough fun, inventive, mindless, overthetop action for you to stomach the crappy story and dull/unlikable characters. In conclusion, The Transporter Refueled could've used more filing cabinets." Such a ridiculous movie, but fun as hell. I think I'd probably end up watching The Transporter Refueled three more times before I watch Spectre again. Spectre is a much better movie, but Transporter is much more fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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