Jason Statham Leaves ‘The Man From Toronto’ Weeks Before Production Begins
By Ethan Anderton/March 4, 2020 10:30 am EST
Statham must have felt pretty passionately about these creative differences, because Deadline says it looks like he didn’t reach the point where his pay or play deal would have been activated, which would have given him a paycheck even if he didn’t star in the movie. Furthermore, shortly after Statham left the project, the actor also parted ways with WME agency. Perhaps his agents didn’t do enough to get him what he wanted on The Man from Toronto and he chose to leave everyone out in the wind.
This sounds like your standard two-hander, and not remarkably different from something like Central Intelligence, which Kevin Hart starred in with Dwayne Johnson. What other action stars could Kevin Hart team up with for maximum laughs? Many of the bigger action stars are busy right now on other projects, but apparently Sony is already out to an unnamed star to replace Jason Statham to keep the film on track. We’ll let you know once the studio figures everything out.
