"Connolly never names his chief protagonist anti-hero, but Statham will play the same nameless character we last saw trying to survive a gunshot wound in Layer Cake," reports Deadline. "It took Connolly more than a decade to follow that tale. Here, his protagonist is looking for a beach to land on in retirement, but instead he gets involved with trans-Atlantic drug deals, money laundering, high-tech electronic fraud, London lowlifes and Venezuelan drug cartels."
The site claims Statham and his producing partner Steve Chasman "will test the idea that a protagonist can play the same character in different movies," citing Donald E. Westlake's Parker character (most recently played onscreen by Statham) as an example.