Crime Spree Cinema is reporting that Jason Statham has signed to play a "rather crude, un-pc, borderline sociopath of a cop" in a British production of the Ken Bruen novel "Blitz". Statham would play Brant, a homophobic London cop who must work with an openly gay sergeant in order to catch a serial killer nicknamed "The Blitz". The Brant character is the star of a series of books by Bruen so Statham