Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie’s new movie, Viva La Madness, gets an official update and takes a major step toward the big screen.
If there's one actor and director pairing that's guaranteed to get dads into the multiplex, it's Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie. Sure, they've not worked together for a little while, but their shared history is dynamite and you know you're getting a good two hours of Cockney wit and bone crunching action.
Statham broke out in Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, then followed it up with Snatch, and since then, both have build massive careers for themselves. But fans have been waiting a heck of a long time for them to properly reunite on something that feels like it lives up to their previous work. Thankfully, their next movie has taken a major leap forward. Viva La Madness, the new action thriller from the duo, has officially wrapped production.
The movie was first announced in October 2025, but things have clearly moved quickly behind the scenes. Ritchie opened up to Collider's Steve Weintraub about the movie while promoting In the Grey, confirming that production had already finished: “I think we finished that about a month ago. ” He also made it clear that the project has been a long time coming for both him and Statham. Ritchie added, “It was a great pleasure working with Jason.
It’s true to its title. By the way, Jason and I have been trying to make that for about 10 years or more, so it was a catharsis making it. It should be great. We’re only a month or so into the editing, but it’s pretty great fun.
I’m not sure when we wrap that up, when that comes out, but great fun, and I had a wonderful time making it. ” COLLIDER Collider · Quiz Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames.
Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you'd actually make it out of alive. 💊The Matrix 🔥Mad Max 🌧️Blade Runner 🏜️Dune 🚀Star Wars TEST YOUR SURVIVAL → QUESTION 1 / 8INSTINCT 01 You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do?
The first instinct is often the truest one. APull on every thread until I understand the system — then figure out how to break it. BStop asking questions and start stockpiling — food, fuel, weapons. Questions don't keep you alive.
CKeep my head down, observe carefully, and trust no one until I know who's pulling the strings. DStudy the patterns. Every system has a rhythm — learn it, and you learn how to survive it. EFind the people fighting back and join them.
You can't fix a broken galaxy alone. NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 2 / 8RESOURCE 02 In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires. AKnowledge.
If you understand the system, you don't need resources — you can generate them. BFuel. Everything else — movement, power, escape — runs on it. CTrust.
In a world of fakes and informants, a truly reliable ally is rarer than any commodity. DWater. And after water, information — the two things empires are truly built on. EShips and credits.
The galaxy is big — you survive it by being able to move through it freely. NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 3 / 8THREAT 03 What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you're honest about what you're actually afraid of. AThat reality itself is a lie — that everything I experience has been constructed to keep me compliant.
BA raid. No warning, no mercy — just the roar of engines and then nothing left. CBeing identified. Once someone with power decides you're a problem, you're already out of time.
DBeing outmanoeuvred — losing a political game I didn't even know I was playing. EThe Empire tightening its grip until there's nowhere left to run.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 4 / 8AUTHORITY 04 How do you deal with authority you don't trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything. ASubvert it from the inside — learn its rules well enough to weaponise them against it.
BIgnore it and stay out of its reach. The further from any power structure, the better. CAppear to comply while doing exactly what I need to do. Visibility is the enemy.
DManoeuvre within it carefully. You can't beat a system you refuse to understand. EResist openly when I have to. Some things are worth the risk of being seen.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 5 / 8ENVIRONMENT 05 Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn't just tactical — it's physical, psychological, and very much about where you are. AUnderground bunkers and server rooms — cramped, artificial, but with access to everything that matters. BOpen wasteland — brutal sun, no shelter, constant movement.
At least the threat is honest. CA dense, rain-soaked city where you can disappear into the crowd and nobody asks questions. DMerciless desert — extreme heat, no water, and something enormous living beneath the sand. EThe fringe — backwater planets and busy spaceports where the Empire's attention rarely reaches.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 6 / 8ALLIANCE 06 Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are. AA tight crew of believers who've seen behind the curtain and have nothing left to lose. BOne or two people I'd trust with my life.
Any more than that and someone talks. CNobody, ideally. Alliances are liabilities. I work alone unless I have no choice.
DA community bound by shared hardship and mutual survival — people who need each other to last. EA ragtag team with wildly different skills and total commitment when it counts.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 7 / 8MORALITY 07 Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they're actually made of. AI won't harm the innocent — even the ones who'd report me without hesitation. BI do what I have to to protect the people I've chosen.
Everything else is negotiable. CThe line shifts depending on who's asking and what's at stake. DI draw a long-term line — nothing that compromises my people's future, even if it'd help now. ESome lines, once crossed, can't be uncrossed.
I know which ones they are. NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 8 / 8PURPOSE 08 What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
AWaking others up — dismantling the illusion so no one else has to live inside it. BFinding somewhere — or someone — worth protecting. A reason to keep moving. CAnswers.
Understanding what I am, what any of this means, before time runs out. DLegacy — shaping the future in a way that outlasts me by generations. EFreedom — for myself, for others, for every world still living under someone else's boot. REVEAL MY WORLD → Your Fate Has Been Calculated You'd Survive In… Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for.
This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for. The Resistance, Zion The Matrix You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You're a systems thinker who can't help but notice the seams in things. The Wasteland Mad Max The wasteland doesn't reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break.
That's you. Los Angeles, 2049 Blade Runner You'd survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely. Arrakis Dune Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards. A Galaxy Far, Far Away Star Wars The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn't have it any other way.
↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ What's 'Viva La Madness' About? Ritchie and Statham have worked together several times over the years, including Revolver, Wrath of Man, and Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre but this feels like a proper reunion between the duo because it's not just another Statham action movie, it feels like a proper Ritchie gangster movie again. Viva La Madness is based on the book by J.J.
Connolly, which serves as the literary sequel to Layer Cake, but this film is very much not a sequel, so it's a bit confusing. Layer Cake, directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring Daniel Craig, was based on Connolly’s 2000 novel. Connolly later wrote Viva La Madness as a follow-up novel in 2011, and now Ritchie and Statham are bringing that book to the screen. But again, not as a sequel to that movie.
Keeping up? Good stuff. It won't matter when we see it. Ritchie teased that the film will lean into the madness promised by the title: “It’s based on the book, and so for anyone familiar with the book, it’s a great, fun book.
So, that’s the world, and it is mad. So, as I said, the clue’s in the title, in Viva la Madness. So, it should be great fun. I think it is.
” There’s no confirmed release date yet for Viva La Madness. Layer Cake Like Follow Followed R Drama Thriller Crime Release Date September 30, 2004 Runtime 105 minutes Director Matthew Vaughn Writers J.J. Connolly Producers Adam Bohling, David Reid, Matthew Vaughn Cast See All Powered by Expand Collapse
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