The sequel to Jason Statham's near-perfect action thriller is destined to be the best movie of 2027

We don't even have a trailer yet, and I'm already pumped for The Beekeeper 2. In 2024, The Beekeeper combined Jason Statham's unhinged action-star energy with director David Ayer's visual flair to score an unexpected hit. Propelled by explosive combat, John Wick-adjacent worldbuilding, and an unprecedented number of bee puns, The Beekeeper achieved buzzy blockbuster status, raking in $162 million on a budget of $40 million. A sequel seemed inevitable, and The Beekeeper 2 was announced a year later in early 2025. A year after that, Amazon MGM Studios hasn't officially released a single frame of footage, but at CinemaCon this week, attendees got a first look at The Beekeeper 2. The response so far has been overwhelmingly positive, eschewing any concern that the sequel might fail to live up to the first film without its original director Ayer or screenwriter Kurt Wimmer. (They're replaced by the relatively unknown director Timo Tjahjanto and writer Umair Aleem.) The trailer, as described by various attendees, expands the world of The Beekeeper, which established a secret military society that operates beyond the chain of command to "protect the hive" (aka human society). In that movie