Guy Ritchie’s Next Jason Statham Movie Will Be on Netflix

There are certain British actors – Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, or the late Patrick Stewart – who are born to do Shakespeare, recite poetry, and bring emotional gravitas to blockbuster films.

Then there’s Jason Statham. The bald-headed British actor was born to play stoic, gravel-voiced anti-heroes in B-level action movies, crime capers, and ridiculously premised thrillers. Statham is the perfect character actor for Guy Ritchie’s stylized violence; casting him in the back-to-back hits Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch helped make both household names. All told, Statham has starred in six Ritchie action films, including Revolver, Wrath of Man, Operation Fortune: Rose de Guerre, and the upcoming Viva La Madness. Now the two are adding a seventh collaboration, this time as part of Ritchie’s deal with Netflix, with a feature film called Dogfight.

After a nearly 30-year career, Statham is very comfortable both in playing these roles straight (such as A Working Man, where he plays an assassin-turned-construction worker who saves girls from sex traffickers) and in a willingness to go sublimely surrealist, which is how he winds up in fare like The Beekeeper, in which he is an assassin-turned-beekeeper, and the bad guys he beats up are in the name of saving the bees.

It is unclear which category the Ritchie film will fall into. The logline currently states:

Dogfight is a stylish revenge actioner set in the London criminal underworld.

So this could be a serious revenge film where Statham finds himself in a dogfight for survival. Or he could be an assassin-turned-doggie daycare worker, and the bad guys he beats up are in the name of saving puppies. Imagine John Wick, but it’s Statham beating up people who are cruel to pit bulls. I’d watch.

At this point, Statham is the only actor currently set to star in the film, but with filming not getting underway until after the New Year, we expect further casting in due course.

As always, Ritchie will write and direct the film. Ritchie also executive produces through his own production company, Toff Guy Films (along with his usual producing partner, Ivan Atkinson), as does Statham through his production company, Punch Palace Productions. They team with John Friedberg, who executive produces for Black Bear Pictures, the studio that produced Ritchie’s most recent feature film, Wife & Dog.

Dogfight is slated to begin production in the U.K. in early 2027. It will most likely get a short theatrical run in late 2027 or early 2028 before streaming on Netflix.