The Mechanic [2011] Review Thread (Spoilers)

[WyldeMan45]

This is a horrible idea, so Statham is supposed to be the aging Hitman or the young apprentice!?!?!? Bronson was 51 when he played Bishop and Jan Michael was around 26 and Statham is around late 30's so wow they are really changing the ages here.


Simon West is in talks to direct Jason Statham in a reinvention of the 1972 Charles Bronson action classic The Mechanic, reports Production Weekly.

In the film, Bronson played Arthur Bishop, a mob hit man who operates in a world of his own an uncompromising world where conventional rules of morality don't apply and where one wrong move could cost him his life. He's always worked alone but, as age catches up with him, Bishop takes on a competent and ruthless apprentice (Jan-Michael Vincent) and teaches him everything he knows. Together they becomean unmatchable team of globetrotting killers until the pupil's ruthlessness puts him on a collision course with his teacher.

Michael Winner directed the original.