Miramax is re-teaming with director Guy Ritchie for the spy action thriller Five Eyes, to star Jason Statham. STXfilms has nabbed the worldwide distribution rights to the pic and will start shopping Five Eyes to buyers at the virtual Toronto Film Festival market.
The feature will see Statham play Orson Fortune, a MI6 guns-and-steel agent recruited by global intelligence alliance ‘Five Eyes’ to track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order.
Ritchie and Jason earlier worked together on Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. Production on the globe-trotting thriller Five Eyes will start in Europe in Oct.
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