Some pairings are just so awesome, it’s epic. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, Johnny Depp and Christian Bale… Neve Campbell and Denise Richards, well, that last one was for the obvious reasons of course. The man who would’ve been the perfect James Bond, and the man once rumored to someday play Daredevil are going to team up to kick some serious arse. The Playlist said Clive Owen and Jason Statham are going to collaborate for THE KILLER ELITE…
Statham was actually already attached to this project since last summer, shooting was supposed to start last fall.
It’s not a remake of the 1979 Sam Peckinpah-directed film, starring James Caan and Robert Duvall, also another example of awesome pairing.
Owen and Statham’s THE KILLER ELITE is based on a book titled THE FEATHER MEN by author Ranulph Fiennes
Production is expected to take place in Australia. In the movie, a group of former British special forces members are being hunted by assassins. Statham is set to play a former Navy Seal who is forced out of retirement to save his closest friend, which Owen might play.
Here’s the official synopsis of the book..
“Founded in England in the late 1960s, the so-called Committee, otherwise known as the Feather Men, was a vigilante group dedicated to solving crimes that the police could not. This absorbing book details their 14-year struggle to capture the Clinic, a band of contract killers who murdered four former British soldiers. The background was this: Amr bin Issa, sheikh of a tribe in Oman, had lost four sons in his country’s civil wars. Although tradition demanded that he avenge their deaths, he did nothing and was deposed as sheikh. Then he arranged with the Clinic to kill the servicemen believed responsible for the deaths of his sons. How the hired killers went about their task (making each murder look like an accident), how they were finally apprehended and how this case in 1990 also put an end to the Committee–or so Fiennes ( Hell on Ice ) contends its members have assured him–makes for a highly suspenseful tale. Readers will be given pause, however, by Fiennes’s wont to romanticize vigilante justice and his assertion that for 20 years the British “have had good reason to be grateful for the Feather Men’s protective presence.”
