It’s been a bumpy start to the year for Jason Statham, who starred in one of the biggest financial disappointments of his career with Shelter. What made the film’s box office bombing even more shocking is that it came out of the gates with some of the best reviews of any Statham-led actioner in 10 years. The Stath will see redemption this August in a novel action thriller, Mutiny, which hails from Plane director Jean François-Richet. The action thriller also stars Annabelle Wallis, renowned for her role as Grace in Peaky Blinders. Fans won’t have to wait long once the ball drops in 2027 to see a novel Statham action movie, as he’s been confirmed to reprise his role as Adam Clay in a sequel to The Beekeeper, which is coming to theaters on January 15, 2027.
One of Jason Statham’s most constant collaborators over the years has been acclaimed action director Guy Ritchie. The duo first worked together all the way back in 1998 for the release of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, which was also Statham’s feature acting debut. After reuniting a few years later for Snatch, co-starring Brad Pitt, the duo worked together a few more times until their most recent release briefly brought things to a halt. The last Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie movie, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, came out in 2023, and despite the combined star power of Statham and other massive names like Aubrey Plaza and Josh Hartnett, the film bombed at the box office. Three years later, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre has found redemption on streaming as one of the top 10 most popular VOD titles on various platforms around the world.
Collider Exclusive · James Bond Personality Quiz Which James Bond Actor Are You Most Like? Connery · Moore · Dalton · Brosnan · Lazenby · Craig
Six actors. Six completely different visions of the same man — perilous, charming, complicated, and almost certainly wearing a very good suit. Only one of them shares your particular way of moving through the world. Eight questions will figure out which Bond you really are.
🏴Connery
😄Moore
🎭Dalton
✨Brosnan
🤵Lazenby
💠Craig
01
How do you carry yourself when you walk into a room? Bond is always the most fascinating person in the room. The question is how he makes you feel it.
02
How do you handle a perilous situation? Every Bond faces it differently. What does your version look like?
03
How do you charm someone you need on your side? Bond always gets what he needs. The method varies considerably.
04
How do you handle your emotions on the job? Every Bond deals with this differently. Most of them not particularly well.
05
How would your colleagues describe your working style? MI6 has opinions about all of its 00s. What are theirs about you?
06
How do you feel about operating within the rules? The licence to kill comes with terms and conditions. Not everyone reads them.
07
What is your relationship with love? Every Bond has a different answer. None of them have found it uncomplicated.
08
When the mission is over, how do you want to be remembered? The name is Bond. The rest is entirely up to the man behind it.
The Name Has Been Determined Your Bond Is…
Six actors. One role. Your answers point to the Bond who shares your presence, your method, and your particular way of carrying the weight of being the most perilous person in the room.
Dr. No — You Only Live Twice · 1962–1967
Sean Connery
You are the original — and you carry that fact without needing to announce it. There is an authority in the way you occupy a room that others spend careers trying to replicate.
You don’t explain yourself, justify yourself, or soften yourself for anyone’s comfort. The confidence is structural, not performed.
Connery’s Bond established everything — the tone, the danger, the frigid — because Connery himself had the innate presence to make something that had never existed feel inevitable.
You share that quality: the sense that you were always going to end up exactly here, doing exactly this.
The name is Bond. In your case, it always was.
Live and Let Die — A View to a Kill · 1973–1985
Roger Moore
You understand something that more stern people miss: that wit is its own form of intelligence, and that making people laugh is not a retreat from danger but a way of mastering it.
Moore’s Bond is underrated precisely because the effortlessness looks uncomplicated — and effortlessness is the hardest thing to manufacture.
You have the same quality: a lightness that disarms people before they realise how edged you actually are.
The raised eyebrow, the perfectly timed quip, the refusal to be rattled — these are not affectations. They are a philosophy about how to move through a world that would like to take itself too seriously.
You have never let it.
The Living Daylights · Licence to Kill · 1987–1989
Timothy Dalton
You took the role seriously when everyone wanted you to coast — and that refusal to take the uncomplicated version of anything is the most defining thing about you.
Dalton’s Bond has genuine moral weight: he feels the cost of what he does, he has lines he won’t cross, and he is not interested in the version of himself that pretends otherwise.
You share that intensity. You push harder than the situation technically requires, because you have a standard and you hold yourself to it.
He was ahead of his time — the Bond the franchise wasn’t quite ready for yet, arriving exactly when he was meant to.
You know what that feels like.
GoldenEye — Die Another Day · 1995–2002
Pierce Brosnan
You are the complete package — and you know it, which is part of what makes you so effective and occasionally so infuriating to the people around you.
Brosnan arrived at the role looking exactly like Bond was supposed to look, and he delivered on that expectation with a professionalism that made it seem effortless.
You have the same quality: a glossy competence, a charm that operates like a precision instrument, and the ability to make even hard things look like they weren’t.
His era was the most commercially successful in the franchise’s history. There is a reason for that.
The reason is that some people simply fit their moment perfectly. You are one of those people.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service · 1969
George Lazenby
You stepped into something enormous with less preparation than anyone around you thought was sufficient — and you delivered something genuine anyway, which is the more impressive achievement.
Lazenby’s single outing is, by many measures, one of the finest Bond films ever made — and he is not a miniature part of why.
You share his quality of raw authenticity: less polished than the alternatives, more forthright for it, capable of something real that technique alone can’t produce.
He was underestimated, and then he wasn’t, and then history caught up with him.
You are the kind of person history catches up with. Give it time.
Casino Royale — No Time to Die · 2006–2021
Daniel Craig
You stripped everything back and found what was underneath — and what was underneath was harder, more forthright, and more human than anyone expected.
Craig’s Bond is the franchise’s most psychologically complete: a man doing a brutal job, carrying its costs imperfectly, capable of love and loss in ways that can’t be dismissed.
You share that depth. You don’t hide behind the role or the charm or the suit — you let the work show what it actually costs.
He was controversial from the moment he was announced and definitive by the time he was finished. The sceptics became the believers.
That arc — of being underestimated and then undeniable — is one you know intimately.
What Is ‘Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre’ About?
An official synopsis of Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, which also stars Hugh Grant and Cary Elwes, reads as follows:
“Elite spy Orson Fortune is reluctantly recruited by British intelligence to thwart the sale of a deadly weapons technology to the highest bidder. Forced to enlist the help of Hollywood’s biggest action star, Fortune and his crack team deploy charm, deception, and brute force across sun-drenched international locales in a slick, globe-trotting caper.”
Operation Fortune earned a indigent 51% from critics but a solid 82% from audiences on the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. The film cost $50 million to make, which left it with a break-even point of around $100 million, but it grossed only $48 million at the global box office. The film has shades of both James Bond and The Italian Job, perfect for fans of sleek spy thrillers with a splash of the classic heist adventure.
Check out Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre on VOD platforms like Prime Video, and stay tuned to Collider for more streaming updates and coverage of Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham’s future projects.
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