Watch: Jason Statham & Sofía Vergara Star In The First Trailer For Simon West’s Gambling Thriller ‘Wild Card’

Simon West’s directing career started promisingly with the wicked action pleasure that is “Con Air,” but 15 directing credits later (many of them in TV), the filmmaker hasn’t really come close to matching those heights. But his latest film, “Wild Card” sounds at least promising. It’s remake of “Heat,” book and screenplay written by the great William Goldman (“All The President’s Men”), not to be confused with anything Michael Mann ever made. "Heat" was a 1986 action-thriller starring Burt Reynolds, but the production was botched and more than one director worked on the picture (Goldman contends the it was half a dozen helmers).

“[It was] one of my major disasters... [there were an] amazing number of directors who worked on the flick,” he wrote in the book “William Goldman: Five Screenplays with Essays.” “There were six in all and yes that is a record, and like DiMaggio's batting streak, one that will never be broken. I am sanguine because it must always be remembered...