'Transporter 4': Meet The New Frank Martin

Back in October 2013, we've talked about the plans being made to produce Transporter 4, along with many speculations we were suggesting on many cases, whether Jason Statham was coming back or not, and who was going to take on the role next. Reportedly, Jason Statham isn't coming back for Transporter 4, but recently Variety reported that he's going to be replaced by Game of Thornes actor, Ed Skrein.

Ed Skrein is a British actor and apparently a musician, who has recently become interested in acting, having in appeared in films such as Piggy, and most notably the British crime drama Ill Manors written and directed by a fellow artist Ben Drew, also knows as Plan B, whom Skrein worked with in his musical career, as well. Then, he came to appear in the third season of Game of Thornes, and currently performing his duties as a recurring character in the British/French television series known as The Tunnel.

Ed Skrein is the next Frank Martin.

Skrein will be the third actor to have portrayed Frank Martin, with the first one being Jason Statham in the first three films, and Chris Vance succeeding him in the television series, which is in talks for renewal, and now, Skrein will be joining these hard men as the next Frank Martin. “We searched everywhere to find a fresh face who had the potential to become an action movie star and we’ve found the right match with Ed Skrein, who’s not only a great actor but also has enough charisma and physical stamina to play Frank Martin with brio,” EuropaCorp (the production company behind the franchise) CEO Christophe Lambert tells the publication.

 

The previous two incarnations of Frank Martin; Jason Statham on the left, and Chris Vance on the right.

The plot details, however, are kept quiet, but Lambert says, the first entry in this rebooted series will have the crew returned to the French Riviera, the site of the original film back in 2002, and give more depth to the main character, including his exploration of the relationship with his father, a role promised to be filled by a prominent actor. It's previously said that Transporter 4 was going to take place in China, so that is another clue we have collected before. What we don't know is that whether the film is going to be called Transporter 4 or just have an original title or a sub-title attached to the eponymous franchise name itself.

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