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Jason Statham has acquired the rights to J.J. Connolly's novel Viva La Madness, which is a sequel to the author's 2000 novel, Layer Cake. Statham will also take on the role of the main, nameless character, who was previously played by Daniel Craig in the 2004 film. Connolly will also write the script for the film, and here's the description of the story from the book,
"From the many levels of the London underworld portrayed in 'Layer Cake,' 'Viva la Madness' moves to international crime with trans-Atlantic drug deals, money laundering and high-tech electronic fraud, portrayed with the same uncanny believability. The anonymous hero of 'Layer Cake' is pulled back into the drug game before he can escape to a sunny retirement: in an authentic but dazzling combination of London low-life, Caribbean high-life and Venezuelan drug cartels toting machine-guns in Mayfair. The brilliance and the madness is back: ‘Viva la madness!’
Statham will next be seen later this month in the action thriller Homefront. He's currently shooting James Wan's Fast & Furious 7 and will star in a film called Heat before taking on The Expendables 3.
