Jason Statham is in final negotiations to star in Blitz, a London-set thriller about a serial killer targeting police officers. He will play a tough, uncompromising cop assigned the task of tracking down the killer. Paddy Considine will play his partner. Elliott Lester will be directing from a screenplay by Nathan Parker. In an interesting turn of events, Lionsgate U.K. is fully financing the project, which is an adaptation of Ken Bruen's bestseller of the same name. The project begins lensing Aug. 10 in London. Statham Recently starred in Crank 2: High Voltage for Lionsgate, and also toplined the Transporter franchise.
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