Having been expendable, Jason Statham is now set to star in the upcoming $40 million action thriller The Killer Elite.

The film is based on Ranulph Fiennes’ best-selling novel “The Featherman” which tells the story of a group of former British Special Forces members who are being hunted by assassins.

Statham is set to play a former Navy Seal who is forced out of retirement to save his closest friend. Sounds generic, I know, but that’s the story!

Helmed by Gary McKendry, the film is set to start shooting this fall in London, Paris and Australia.