A Working Man (2025)

[BluBonnet]

Amazon MGM Lands Jason Statham Action-Thriller ‘Levon’s Trade’ With David Ayer Directing Sylvester Stallone Script; Wide Theatrical Release Lined Up In U.S.

In a lucrative pact, Amazon MGM Studios has landed U.S. theatrical rights to Levon’s Trade, with Prime Video taking streaming rights in a slew of major international territories, we can reveal.

As we told you last year, the David Ayer (Suicide Squad)-helmed film will star Jason Statham (Fast & Furious franchise) and hail from producers Black Bear and BlockFilm. The screenplay was adapted by Sylvester Stallone (Creed), with revisions by Ayer, and is based on prolific comic author Chuck Dixon’s first novel in the ‘Levon’ series.

Amazon MGM has signed a deal for a wide theatrical release in the U.S. Outside of the Prime Video international territories (where the film may conceivably go online only), Black Bear has sold the film independently to theatrical distributors in multiple overseas markets.

The movie will chart how Levon Cade (Statham) left his “profession” behind him to go ‘straight’ and work in construction. He wants to live a simple life and be a good father to his daughter. But when his boss’s teenage daughter Jenny vanishes, he’s called upon to re-employ the skills that made him a legendary figure in the shadowy world of black ops. His hunt for the missing college student takes him deep into the heart of a sinister criminal conspiracy creating a chain reaction that will threaten his new way of life.

The team is on course for to start filming in London this spring.

This is the second project we’ve revealed in consecutive days that Amazon MGM is expected to give a wide theatrical platform (after Chris Pratt movie Mercy), following the bombshell column on Deadline from filmmaker Doug Liman in which he criticized the studio for not releasing Road House theatrically.

David Ayer and Chris Long will produce Levon’s Trade for Cedar Park Entertainment, with Statham for Punch Palace Productions (The Beekeeper), Stallone for Balboa Productions, John Friedberg (Ferrari, The Covenant) for Black Bear, and Bill Block (David Gordon Green’s Halloween franchise) for BlockFilm.

Statham, Ayer, Chris Long, and Bill Block recently teamed with Amazon MGM Studios on the action-thriller The Beekeeper. The film has brought in more than $78M at the worldwide box office.

Jason Statham is represented by Patrick Knapp at GGSSC. David Ayer is represented by WME and attorney David Weber. Sylvester Stallone is represented by UTA and attorney Robert Lange.

[BluBonnet]

This is now called A Working Man

[BluBonnet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=zTbgNC42Ops

[HipsterTrash]

So game for this. It's like a great companion film to Ayer-Statham's The Beekeeper.

[cheez avenger]

Yeah, I'd say companion to Homefront, as well, since Stallone also wrote that one.

[formula_nebula]

Looks really good.

[maverick22]

I’m in, even if it does feel very similar to Beekeeper and Homefront.

[BluBonnet]

Anything with Statham is going to feel similar, no matter what he's playing imho

[Samus Aran]

Statham's movie titles are starting to sound like Seagal's movie titles. But at least we don't have to worry about Statham sitting for half his screen time or his action scenes consisting of flailing his arms around.

[Creed]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

Statham's movie titles are starting to sound like Seagal's movie titles. But at least we don't have to worry about Statham sitting for half his screen time or his action scenes consisting of flailing his arms around.

Or getting his voice dubbed, or hooking up with women less than half his age, or being the best at goddamn everything....

[Damon1281]

Some actors, like Statham, you watch for the fight choreography. Steven Seagal lost the ability to make it look believable by gaining an enormous amount of weight and going to low budget DTV. He could barely move in his last 20 abysmal movies and sped up the film (poorly) to try and make it look like he could.

[johnlennon696]

Ayer and our Jase again? I'm in.

[Mikezilla3k]

Modern Chuck Dixon adapted in big 2025........oh my.

[Mosley likes BFDI]

Hopefully we will get a 4K Blu-ray release of this film since The Beekeeper got one, and I'm hoping Black Bear can release it in the UK.

[HipsterTrash]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eZqkaP37po

[drb999]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

Anything with Statham is going to feel similar, no matter what he's playing imho

He always plays the same guy pretty much but his fans don’t seem to mind.

[Tony208]

YouTube comments are glorious.

Statham just working a different menial job in all of these movies before he reverts to a special forces type to enact revenge.

[Gretiem]

Looks good. I'm in.

[Pieter V]

1 HR 56 MIN
R
March 28, 2025
Action

https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/a-working-man-76168

[John1701D]

Saw the trailer for this earlier. I think at this point Statham and Liam Neeson are interchangeable. Both of their output is so formulaic.