Jason Statham & Guy Ritchie Are Action Movie Rivals In 2025 After 27 Years Of Working Together

Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie have an extensive working relationship from making movies together, but 2025 will make them action movie rivals for the first time. The partnership between the two British gentlemen goes back to 1998 when Statham played a role in Ritchie’s directorial debut Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. The success of the film brought the two men back together several times, as there are five Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham movies to date. While they took a significant break from each other during the 2010s, they’ve reunited twice in the 2020s for entertaining action movies.

The continued favor that Statham and Ritchie’s movies receive when they work together has made them a dynamic and reliable duo. It helps that both have found great success away from each other, ranging from major franchises to standalone stories. However, they’ve never been direct competitors before, even when they were not working on the same movies and as Ritchie has replaced Statham twice. That all changes in 2025, as Statham and Ritchie are slated to be part of an epic action movie showdown.