Jason Statham has been named to the role first played by Daniel Craig (in 2004's Layer Cake) in the film adaptation of Viva La Madness by J. J. Connolly. (More about the book, below.) As he did with Layer Cake, Connolly is writing the adapted screenplay.
Ten years passed between the publication of the two crime novels by Connolly, which share the same nameless character, which in this most recent outing seeking a place to retire only to get drawn back into the drug game.
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Viva La Madness
J. J. Connolly
A Crime Thriller
From the London underworld to international crime with trans-Atlantic drug deals, money laundering, and high-tech electronic fraud, the anonymous hero of Layer Cake is pulled back into the drug game before he can escape to a sunny retirement.
In a dazzling combination of London low-life, Caribbean high-life, and Venezuelan drug cartels toting machine-guns in Mayfair, our hero's voice and mission are authentic, thrilling, and whiplash-inducing in equal shares.
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