In the 2011 remake of the '70's genre classic, Professione: assassino (1972), audiences were reintroduced to the consummate assassin, tasked with reluctantly training a hothead protégé while also trying to find the person responsible for killing his mentor. While there was an ample amount of action throughout, the film was more intimate and character-driven, a showcase as much for the acting chops of Charles Bronson four decades earlier and later Jason Statham, who put his own personal imprint on hit man Arthur Bishop. The result, in both cases, was an unqualified success. For Bishop's follow-up adventure, Mechanic: Resurrection (2016), the decision was made to broaden the scope of the series, taking its tough, ethical hit man "to the next level," as co-screenwriter Philip Shelby said. That meant a more expansive view of the sense of danger and a better understanding of who the mechanic is. "It was an opportunity to put Bishop on an international stage, to have him do far more dangerous and exotic stunts and put him in far more interesting situations."

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