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- Gerard Butler in motion thriller defending iconic NYC skyscraper from destruction. The movie mixes motion with relationship drama.
- The Empire State Constructing, an NYC landmark in movies like King Kong & Independence Day, is central to the brand new Butler challenge.
- The movie’s script was co-written by S. Craig Zahler, to be produced by Butler and GBase accomplice Alan Siegel amongst others. Will probably be shopped at Cannes.
Gerard Butler is in talks to reunite with Den of Thieves director Christian Gudegast for a brand new motion thriller. Empire State would see Butler defend New York Metropolis’s most iconic skyscraper from destruction. Deadline reports that the movie might be shopped at this month’s Cannes Movie Pageant.
Butler would star as Navy SEAL-turned-FDNY firefighter Rhett, who has to work with NYPD tactical officer Dani to cease a vengeance-seeking navy contractor from destroying the Empire State Constructing. The complication is that Rhett and Dani are relationship, and must work via their relationship points as they battle to avoid wasting the tower and everybody in it. Will probably be the most recent challenge from Butler and Gudegast, who’ve had a fruitful sequence of collaborations. Gudegast wrote London Has Fallen, the Butler-starring motion sequel that grossed $205 million USD in 2016, and subsequently made his directorial debut with their heist thriller Den of Thieves. A sequel, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, is at the moment in post-production, and is slated to be launched later this yr.
What’s the Empire State Constructing?
Accomplished in 1931, the Empire State Constructing stands at 1454 toes tall, and was New York Metropolis’s tallest constructing for many years, though it has since been surpassed by One World Commerce Heart, amongst others. Its Artwork Deco aesthetics and scenic statement decks make it a well-liked vacationer vacation spot. As one in every of New York Metropolis’s most iconic landmarks, it has made a variety of memorable appearances on display. Most famously, the titular ape in 1933’s King Kong climbs the tower with Fay Wray in tow earlier than plummeting to his loss of life underneath a hail of gunfire from a squad of biplanes; the 2005 remake additionally options the Empire State Constructing, though the 1976 movie changed it with the then-new World Commerce Heart. It is destroyed by a flying saucer in Independence Day, serves because the assembly place for Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in Sleepless in Seattle, homes James Caan‘s Greenway Publishing in Elf, and lies in ruins within the Tom Cruise science fiction thriller Oblivion. It was additionally the topic of Andy Warhol‘s well-known artwork movie Empire, which consists of eight hours of slow-motion black-and-white footage of the Empire State Constructing.
Empire State‘s script was co-written by writer-director S. Craig Zahler, whose newest movie, The Bookie and the Bruiser, is being shopped at Cannes, and Secret Invasion scribe Brian Tucker. Butler would additionally produce together with his GBase accomplice Alan Siegel in addition to Plane producer Marc Butan through MadRiver. Leonine Studio’s Quirin Berg and Alexander Janssen will govt produce.
Empire State is being shopped on the Cannes Movie Pageant; no launch date has but been set. Keep tuned to Collider for future updates.
