According to Variety, Guy Ritchie is writing, directing, and producing a seventh film with Jason Statham, "Dogfight," which Netflix has announced as a "stylish revenge actioner" set in the London criminal underworld. Production starts in the UK in early 2027, and no other plot details have been revealed.
The formula has been running since 1998: two men, one city, someone owes someone else, and the distance between the insult and the violence is measured in scenes. Lock, Stock ended the novelty, Snatch made it a brand, and now the seventh pass is less a movie than a renewal.
Netflix's description does the criticism's job for free. "Stylish revenge actioner" is not a synopsis, it is a SKU. Per Variety's own footnote, the plot is presumed to include guns and some mean-looking faces, and the algorithm has already picked its audience before a single frame is shot in 2027.
This is the Statham-Ritchie factory, and the assembly line is the franchise. Ritchie invented the machine around a stolen Ferrari, and now he works the line while Statham is the product, and the difference between each film is a licensing fee. Let them make it. By the eighth, the trailer is the movie.
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