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Yara Shahidi has boarded the cast of The Beekeeper 2 alongside Jason Statham.<\/p>\n
The Grown-ish and Black-ish star, 25, has signed on for the sequel to the 2024 sleeper hit The Beekeeper, Variety reports.<\/p>\n
Statham, 58, will return as Adam Clay, a former operative of a covert organisation known as The Beekeepers, unleashing vengeance against a corrupt tech company.<\/p>\n
The sequel, currently in pre-production, promises to expand the film\u2019s universe with new characters and high-stakes missions.<\/p>\n
Details about Shahidi\u2019s role are yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n
Former child star Shahidi played her first adult lead role in the 2019 drama film, The Sun Is Also a Star. In 2023, she played Tinker Bell in the fantasy adventure film Peter Pan and Wendy, and executive produced and starred in the romantic comedy-drama film, Sitting in Bars with Cake.<\/p>\n
According to the outlet, Nobody 2 helmer Timo Tjahjanto will direct from a script by returning scribe Kurt Wimmer, meaning the director of the first film, David Ayer, is not returning.<\/p>\n
Statham will once again produce under his s Punch Palace Productions banner.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Irons, 77, is also said to be reprising his role as Wallace Westwyld, the former CIA Director, now head of security for Danforth Enterprises.<\/p>\n
The Beekeeper 2 is being produced by Miramax, with filming slated to begin later this year.<\/p>\n
The original film grossed over $150 million worldwide and earned praise for its stylised combat and Statham\u2019s signature intensity.<\/p>\n
Statham previously hinted at a sequel, noting there is a “whole world that we can dive into”.<\/p>\n
He previously told Variety: \u201cThe whole movie escalates in terms of the action. And it goes through an incredible, great crescendo.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe whole world [of the film] has a mythology of the \u2018beekeeping\u2019 world. If we were fortunate enough to make a sequel, we have a whole world that we can dive into.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.movies.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yara Shahidi has boarded the cast of The Beekeeper 2 alongside Jason Statham. The Grown-ish and Black-ish star, 25, has signed on for the sequel to the 2024 sleeper hit The Beekeeper, Variety reports. Statham, 58, will return as Adam Clay, a former operative of a covert organisation known as The Beekeepers, unleashing vengeance against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2051559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[381042,344756,324709,381041],"class_list":["post-2051558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-adam-clay","tag-david-ayer","tag-jason-statham","tag-yara-shahidi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Yara-Shahidi-boards-The-Beekeeper-2.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}