Shelter Director Reveals Movie’s First Trailer and Why Jason Statham Is the Best “Dance Partner”

Shelter - the upcoming enactment movie starring Jason Statham, Naomi Ackie, and Bill Nighy - conscionable dropped its archetypal trailer, which you tin presumption successful the subordinate above. Now the manager is revealing caller details astir the film. I spoke exclusively with Ric Roman Waugh astir however Shelter showcases “Jason Statham astatine his best” and wherefore the movie volition marque radical privation to enactment their “ass successful a theater” erstwhile it releases aboriginal adjacent year.

“(Statham’s quality is) this mysterious feline that’s been surviving successful this abandoned lighthouse for implicit 10 years alone, isolated connected this island,” Waugh says. “A young miss and her uncle support bringing him supplies. He won't springiness them the clip of time until 1 time helium has to prevention her life, and present is stuck with her. He gets exposed to the world, and you recognize that helium has this mysterious past that has haunted him and he's present a wanted antheral that's connected the hunt. It becomes a large movie astir our ain morality contiguous and astir a feline that was wrongfully accused and tried to bash the close things. What you get is this large large enactment thrust with 2 mislaid souls that find each different and go family.”

Waugh says the cardinal to Shelter’s communicative is the narration betwixt Statham’s character, Mason, and a miss named Jessie, played by Hamnet's Bodhi Rae Breathnach. “When we did the chemistry test, she was the archetypal young miss that came in. Jason and I looked afterwards and we were like, what bash we bash now? Because we cognize that's her. The bosom of it became astir the mode that you're looking for Natalie Portman successful The Professional (or) Dakota Fanning successful Man connected Fire. Who's going to bring it?

“It's a movie that determination were scenes directing it wherever it's a spot of a tear-jerker astir 2 mislaid souls trying who find household and don't privation to suffer it; a antheral trying to bash the close happening by this young miss and dealing with the acheronian unreality down them.”

Rounding retired the all-star formed are Bill Nighy (Pirates of the Caribbean), Naomi Ackie (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), and Daniel Mays (Rogue One). But the bosom of the movie lies with Statham.

“This is Jason Statham astatine his best,” Waugh says. "This is Jason Statham the enactment star, and this is the feline that volition amusement you and beryllium again what an astonishing histrion helium is. He gives a show that conscionable volition stroke your caput and volition triumph your bosom over. It's the afloat package. (He) knows the communicative wrong out, (he’s) prepared and (is) some going to situation the process successful a mode of being respectful and wanting to rise the bar. You couldn't inquire for a amended creation partner.”

Shelter hits theaters January 30, 2026.

Michael Peyton is the Senior Editorial Director of Events & Entertainment astatine IGN, starring amusement contented and sum of tentpole events including IGN Live, San Diego Comic Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest. He's spent 20 years moving successful the games and amusement industry, and his adventures person taken him everyplace from the Oscars to Japan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Follow him connected Bluesky @MichaelPeyton