A recovering gambler whose addiction has led him to the streets of Las Vegas, Nick Wild (Jason Statham) takes odd jobs providing security to support his addiction.
There’s a new Jason Statham movie coming, and in the first look at the picture, you’ll find that the star looks so much like… Jason Statham. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” must be the mantra of everyone involved with any film starring the guy. So for the film Wild
Card, we see Statham appearing, more or less, as himself. The trick this time is that the movie is a remake of a film called Heat - not the Michael Mann movie, but a mid-’80s Burt Reynolds movie scripted by William Goldman (The Princess Bride, All the President’s Men, Marathon Man) based on Goldman’s own novel about a bodyguard and gambler who gets into bad stuff with the mob.
In an interesting twist, this film also uses the ’80s-era Goldman script, as the author never thought the original turned out all that well. (He’s right.) So this is a remake, but one that ditches the typical modern remake playbook.
In an interesting twist, this film also uses the ’80s-era Goldman script, as the author never thought the original turned out all that well. (He’s right.) So this is a remake, but one that ditches the typical modern remake playbook.
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