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Reuniting after their sleeper hit The Beekeeper, director David Ayer and action star Jason Statham are back with A Working Man. The Amazon MGM Studios release, which opens in theaters on March 28, is an adaptation of Chuck Dixon’s book Levon’s Trade.

Statham portrays Levon Cade, a decorated military black ops soldier who now lives quietly as a construction worker. That is until his boss’s (Michael Peña) daughter is kidnapped by human traffickers. Now Levon is going to call upon his old skill set to bring her home while uncovering a vast network of corruption.

As part of this week’s IGN Fan Fest, David Ayer shared an exclusive clip from A Working Man with us, which you can watch via the player above or the embed below. In it, Levon confronts some bad guys and, well, what the hell do you think happens when a bunch of goons get on the wrong side of The Stath?!

Ayer was also generous enough to answer some of our questions about A Working Man via e-mail while shooting his next project overseas.

IGN: What makes Jason Statham such a relatable everyman (despite his characters always possessing a badass skill set precious few could)?

David Ayer: Jason is a guy that has worked his way up in life, started humbly-so he has that working man mindset. He is that man next door-incredibly gracious and respectful of everyone-there’s a truth to what the audience sees.

IGN: Sylvester Stallone shares screenplay credit on A Working Man. What can you say about his involvement in the development and writing of the script?

David Ayer: Sly (Stallone) gave me an amazing starting point and was incredibly collaborative. He managed to find a cinematic arc within Chuck Dixon’s book. It was a pleasure to collaborate with such a lauded writer.

IGN: How faithful is the script to Chuck Dixon’s source material Levon’s Trade?

David Ayer: The character Levon is ripped directly from the novel. The circumstances are similar but we wanted to have some fun with Jenny’s character.

IGN: You’ve worked with Michael Peña a few times now. Would you say that he’s your lucky charm?

David Ayer: He’s definitely my lucky charm, he brings a truth to every role he plays, in this case the family that Levon is a part of. Every time I work with Michael I’m surprised by his depth and range.

In addition to Jason Statham and Michael Peña, the cast of A Working Man includes David Harbour, Jason Flemyng, Merab Ninidze, Maximilian Osinski, Cokey Falkow, Noemi Gonzalez, Arianna Rivas, Emmett J. Scanlan, and Eve Mauro.

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True Keanu Reeves fans know that The Matrix and Cyberpunk 2077 star is a man of many talents, and his latest project sees him co-hosting a show about human creativity with Gard Hollinger, his cofounder in the company ARCH Motorcycle. The pair spoke at IGN Fan Fest 2025 to take viewers behind the scenes of their new docuseries and to explain that Visionaries, a new series airing on Roku in March, isn’t just about their passion for creating bikes.

“We’re two people that are curious, that are interested in storytelling and creating and so this is not a motorcycle show,” says Reeves.

“If you see a cooking show and you have someone who loves food and they go to meet great chefs of the world, we love creativity and people who are creating and innovating. And so we’re your hosts to this meal of innovation and creativity.”

Along with giving an inside look of their new show to IGN Fan Fest, Reeves and Hollinger also provided an exclusive clip from the upcoming series.

“I think the show really takes us on this hopefully inspiring journey of the intimate and the grand, the way it kind of grows out,” Reeves says of the show’s exploration of creativity.

“Here’s someone thinking personally about creativity and what they create and how that turns into a collaborative act and how it touches other people.”

Reeves picked out flying and arriving at the Roden Crater, the remains of an extinct volcano, as one of his favorite moments of the series, while Hollinger highlighted meeting Mattie Rodrigue, the head of Science Operations at oceanic exploration initiative OceanX.

“This realization that there’s this whole huge world that we take for granted and don’t know about when we’re so focused on what’s up there,” Hollinger says of OceanX’s deep sea missions.

Asked what they’d like to tackle for a second season of Visionaries, Reeves and Hollinger suggested AI, music, more form the world of art, and even medicine.

“We’d like to see who’s on the forefront of what will eventually impact and change our lives,” says Reeves.

Visionaries is just one part of IGN Fan Fest, and if you’ve missed any of it you can catch up with

All the Biggest Announcements From Fan Fest So Far.

Yesterday’s Pokémon Legends: Z-A gameplay reveal flooded us with new information about the upcoming Pokémon games set in a futuristic Lumiose City, including looks at dozens of Pokémon we should expect to see there. But one trio of monsters that fans were really hoping to see did NOT appear: the elemental monkeys Panpour, Pansage, and Pansear.

Why are fans so hung up on the monkey trio? It’s a bit complicated. The three monkeys and their evolutions have been a part of an increasingly shrinking list of Pokémon that are currently unavailable in any Nintendo Switch game. If you want to truly catch ’em all, you still can, by transferring them from other Pokémon games pre-Switch to Pokémon Home. But at the moment, the following Pokémon are unavailable for capture natively in any Nintendo Switch Pokémon game:

• Panpour
• Pansage
• Pansear
• Simipour
• Simisage
• Simisear
• Patrat
• Watchog
• Furfrou

This list used to be much longer, but Game Freak added a ton of new Pokémon in the DLC for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet that culled the list down to these nine. What’s more, the trailer we saw yesterday showed both Patrat and Furfrou, confirming these two at least will be available in Legends: Arceus. And since Watchog evolves from Patrat, it’s a safe bet it will be in the game too. So that just leaves the three monkeys.

The elemental monkey trio was first introduced in Pokémon Black and White, and are somewhat beloved by fans due to the unique way the player obtains them. In Black and White, the first Gym the player encounters will use a typing that the player’s starter Pokémon is weak against. However, if the player visits a certain person in the Dreamyard, they’ll receive the monkey that has an advantage against that Gym, making it easier to tackle. Their designs are also memorable for being based on the “Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” wise monkeys of Japanese folklore.

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