No, the title of this article is not a reference to the main role of Jason Statham in the round film by Uwe Boll “in the name of the king: a tale of Dungeon seat”, one of the most derived video game adaptations. Instead, it refers to vocal work he did at the start of his career. It seems that Statham played a minor vocal role in the very first video game “Call of Duty” in 2003. “Call of Duty” was a military shooting game during the Second World War, released on the PC, and finally for the Xbox 360, and the PlayStation 3. It was a great success in the early 2000s, and falsified a massive franchise that takes place to this day. There are five games in the original continuity of the Second World War, eight games in the spin-off series “Modern Warfare” (taking place in the present), seven games in the “Black Ops” spin-off and three autonomous spin-off games. And it’s just the “main” series. There are also many online versions of the game, some titles only on the console and several autonomous games “Call of Duty” for portable devices. Heck, some of them even have zombies.

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Statham was not a major element of the mythology of “Call of Duty”, and he did not play a notable real character (how passionate it would have to learn that he played Winston Churchill?). Instead, Statham played a British officer by the name of Sergeant Waters who joined the player’s character, Jack Evans, during the British game campaign segment (“Call of Duty” also owned an American campaign and a Russian campaign).

Statham’s involvement in “Call of Duty” means that it is now associated with two of the largest silver entertainment franchises of all time. He also played The murderer who became Deckard Shaw In six films “Fast & Furious”. This is added to playing the Christmas of Lee hard as the four “Expendable” films.

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When Statham appeared in “Call of Duty”, he was already a recognizable star. The actor made his debut in a professional role with director Guy Ritchie, appearing in his success in 1998 “Lock, Stock and two smokers”. He returned for the follow -up of Richie in 2000 “Snatch”, before being recognized by John Carpenter and included in the Western Science Fiction “Mars” ghosts. In 2002, he won his leading leading role in “The Transporter”, to activate him on a low budget of Luc Besson co-produced by Louis Leterrer and Corey Yuen. “The Transporter” was only a modest success in theaters, winning around $ 44 million, but it became strongly regarded on home video, finally causing two Statham star suites in 2005 and 2008 (the 2015 film “The Transporter Réduadeled” was a restart carried out without the involvement of Statham).

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The seriously delivery of the voice and the hard line of the actor would have been recognizable by video game enthusiasts playing “Call of Duty” in 2003. It was only another concert for Statham, who also provided his voice for the video game “Red Faction II”, playing a named character, uh, Mandril Shrike. By 2015, Statham would be a sufficient household name to be the argument for the sale of video games. That year, he expressed a digital version of himself for a mobile game called “Sniper X with Jason Statham”. Of course, by 2015, it would have already exploded in popularity with the films “Expendables” and “Fast & Furious”, not to mention the two films “CRANK”.

At the last measure, the series of games “Call of Duty” collected $ 11 billion (with a “B”) in income. The “Fast & Furious” films, in the meantime, have collectively won $ 7 billionAnd the “Expendable” films have won around $ 840 million. This statham guy could have a good eye for successful projects.

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