Having successfully become one of the breakout comedy stars of the year, Jason Statham has left The Transporter series behind. But fear not, devotees to the bone-crunching chaos, as Ed Skrein steps into the role of Frank Martin. the world’s best transporter. The Transporter Refueled is directed by Camille Delamarre and co-written by Transporter creator Luc Besson. Delamarre has been the editor on many of Besson’s recent productions, so that doesn’t necessarily indicate that The Transporter Refueled will feature visually coherent action. However, Besson’s involvement does promise the film will feature a certain level of insanity — that could go either way depending on your own affection or distaste for Besson’s absurd tendencies. Old franchises die hard when The Transporter Refueled opens on September 4th, 2015.
The official synopsis for The Transporter Refueled:
The producers of Lucy and the Taken trilogy bring you the next adrenaline-fueled installment of The Transporter series, THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED, starring newcomer Ed Skrein as Frank Martin, the most highly-skilled transporter money can buy. The stakes are greater and technology better, but the same three simple rules apply: never change the deal, no names and never open the package.
When Frank is hired by cunning femme fatale Anna and her three stunning sidekicks, he quickly discovers he’s been played. Anna and her cohorts have kidnapped his father (Ray Stevenson) in order to coerce Frank into helping them take down a ruthless group of Russian human traffickers. Fueled by revenge, he will break all his rules and stop at nothing to rescue his father in this action-packed thrill ride across the French Riviera.
