SPOILER ALERT: Don't get stung — this article contains signposted spoilers for The Beekeeper.

Some buzzy news for your Friday morning! Following the global box office success of last year's David Ayer and Jason Statham action thriller The Beekeeper, The Stath's assassin-turned-apiarist-turned-assassin-again Adam Clay is set to make a busy (probably murderous) bee of himself once again in Miramax's The Beekeeper 2. And what's more, per Deadline's reporting, Indonesian action filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto (Nobody 2, The Shadow Strays) is making a beeline for the director's hotseat and will be the man calling the shots on the upcoming sequel.

We know vanishingly little about what The Beekeeper 2, penned by the first movie's scribe Kurt Wimmer, will entail at this point, but we do know that cameras are due to start rolling on the sequel — which is sure to have a, er, sting in its tale — before the year is through. And while Ayer won't be at the helm for the follow-up (his next team-up with Statham will be unofficial Worker Trilogy capper A Working Man, due out on 28 March), the action man is being eyed to serve as a producer on the film.

As fans of the burgeoning franchise will recall, The Beekeeper introduced us Statham's Adam Clay. A retired member of extrajudicial government agency 'Beekeepers', the movie started with Clay living the simple life 'disguised' as a humble, well, beekeeper. Soon enough though, the shocking death of a friend, caused by a scamming cabal, has Clay dropping the drone worker act and stinging unfortunate so-and-sos left, right, and centre as he unearths a government-entangled conspiracy that goes all the way to the top. By the end of the movie, Clay had bumped off wrong'un Josh Hutcherson, been let off by Emmy Raver-Lampman's Agent Verona Parker, and royally ticked off Jemma Redgrave's President Danforth. All of which is to say that there's plenty of avenues for the sequel to explore.