“The Transporter Refueled” is crass and nonsensical, but it is hard to hate a movie in which a medical anesthetic is administered with a nightclub fog machine, the weapons include a ringed life preserver, an escape from a moving plane continues by car onto a jetway and the touch-screen banking software appears expressly designed for double-crossing. (Their use of blond wigs for capers seems patterned after Brian De Palma films.) Sold into prostitution when she was 12, Anna now vamps about with former co-workers on a revenge quest inspired by the Three Musketeers.
Comic relief has been delegated to a new character, his dad (Ray Stevenson), a retired spy, who addresses his son as “junior,” a dynamic borrowed from “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.”įrank’s latest client is Anna (Loan Chabanol), who hires him for a robbery in Monte Carlo.
The new Frank is played by the reedy and humorless Ed Skrein, who substitutes smarm for Mr. The car, viewers of the three previous movies may recall, belongs to Frank Martin, an ex-military operative who rakes in euros helping criminals with getaways and other high-stakes errands.Īs previously embodied by Jason Statham, Frank was an ace driver and brawler always annoyed at having to ruffle one of his perfectly pressed shirts. On April 1, 2015, EuropaCorp again moved the film back to a Septemdate.In “ The Transporter Refueled,” a reboot of the French producer Luc Besson’s action series, the main returning cast member is a souped-up Audi. On November 5, 2014, EuropaCorp moved the film for a Jrelease. The film was previously set to be released on March 6, 2015. Principal photography of the film began on August 1, 2014, in Paris, France. In March 2015, the title was changed from The Transporter Legacy to The Transporter: Refueled. English actor Ed Skrein will replace Jason Statham as Frank Martin in the fourth installment of the series. Loaded with nonstop action and excitement, The Transporter Refueled is a turbo-charged thrill ride full of hairpin twists and dangerous curves Bonus Features: Theatrical Feature Frank Martin: The. Luc Besson will co-finance, distribute, produce and write all the films. But when his father (Ray Stevenson) is kidnapped by a gorgeous gang of thieves, Frank must shift his skills into overdrive to rescue him. The films will likely be budgeted between $30 million and $40 million each and at least one will be shot in China. At the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, a new trilogy was announced with EuropaCorp and China's Fundamental Films co-producing and distributing the titles.
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