Earlier this year, Jason Statham announced that filming on Viva La Madness would get underway next year, and now it has been has revealed that the adaptation of JJ Connelly’s Layer Cake follow-up is heading to the small screen, with Gaumont International Television announcing a TV drama series.
“Viva La Madness, with its riveting characters and twisting storyline, is a volatile cocktail of action and comedy that only J.J. Connolly can create,” states Gaumont CEO Katie O’Connell Marsh. “Jason Statham, known for his roles in the Transporter trilogy, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, The Bank Job, as well as the recent Furious 7 and Spy, brings such strength and credibility to his characters but also has an effortless shade of vulnerability that gives him so much dimension on screen.”
Viva la Madness follows on an anonymous hero who is stranded in the Caribbean itching for the criminal life he left behind — but who is still a wanted man back home. He soon joins forces with two robust London gangsters: the menacing Sonny King and his paranoid partner Roy “Twitchy” Burns.
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Originally published September 19, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
