If a third Crank movie is ever made, actor Jason Statham tells PC Gamer that he's «both pumped and a bit wary» to find out what absurd new premise will keep Chev alive for the duration of the film.
The actor also gave us an off-hand idea of his own for what Crank 3 could be about—given that he's promoting an appearance in World of Tanks, it unsurprisingly had to do with tanks, but I'd watch it.
Statham is the celebrity star of this year's World of Tanks Holiday Ops event, and Wargaming offered us the opportunity to ask the actor a handful of questions by email, mediated by the developer.
We slipped in a few non-tank-related inquiries, and along with telling us whether he could beat Santa in a fight (he thinks he could), Statham answered a couple questions about the Crank movies, which to my mind are the most memorable films he's appeared in—and to draw an admittedly loose connection to PC gaming, pretty videogame-like (you even used to be able to buy Crank 2 on Steam).
The first Crank, released in 2006, casts the action star as a hitman named Chev who has to give himself a constant adrenaline rush or die by synthetic poison.