(Left) Hayley Atwell stars in ‘Mission: Inconceivable Useless Reckoning – Half One’. (Proper) Gerard Butler stars in ‘Airplane.’
Preview:
- Hayley Atwell and Gerard Butler are aboard ‘Empire Metropolis.’
- It’s a brand new hostage thriller set in New York.
- Michael Matthews will direct the film.
It’s at all times good when tasks you suppose may need vanished into the event ether pop again up once more with individuals hooked up.
On this case, hostage thriller ‘Empire Metropolis,’ whose rights have been up on the market at Cannes final yr, now has two leads –– that might be Hayley Atwell and Gerard Butler –– on board, and a director in ‘Love & Monsters’ Michael Matthews.
In line with Deadline, the script has been by some tweaks (extra on the story under) and is now aiming to kick off capturing this month.
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What’s the story of ‘Empire Metropolis’?
(L to R) Maurice Compte and Gerard Butler in ‘Den of Thieves’. Picture: STXfilms.
The story kicks off when a hostage disaster erupts inside New York’s landmark Cleburne Constructing, firefighter Rhett (Butler), his squad, and his NYPD spouse Dani (Atwell) should battle and navigate their method by the constructing to rescue the captives.
Particular shades of ‘Die Onerous’, then, however the script comes from S. Craig Zahler (‘Bone Tomahawk’) and Brian Tucker (‘Damaged Metropolis’) so that they’ve hopefully added some recent twists.
The place else can we see Hayley Atwell and Gerard Butler?
Hayley Atwell performs Grace in ‘Mission: Inconceivable – The Ultimate Reckoning’ from Paramount Photos and Skydance. Picture: Paramount Photos.
Atwell was most not too long ago seen reprising the position of pickpocket Grace in ‘Mission: Inconceivable – The Ultimate Reckoning’ and has a voice within the English dub of recent animated film ‘Grand Prix of Europe.’
Alongside ‘Empire Metropolis,’ she’s a part of the forged for director Duncan Jones’ adaptation of ‘Rogue Trooper’ and also will present up within the second season of TV drama ‘Rivals.’
As for Butler, he was again this yr in two memorable roles: he performed the live-action model of his Stoick character within the new adaptation of ‘How one can Practice Your Dragon’ and returned as Nicholas “Huge Nick” O’Brien for ‘Den of Thieves 2: Pantera.’
Developing, he has catastrophe sequel ‘Greenland 2: Migration’ and a 3rd ‘Den of Thieves’ film is within the works.
When will ‘Empire Metropolis’ be in theaters?
Even with worldwide distribution rights already bought to finance manufacturing, this one continues to be on the gross sales stage for the U.S., so we’ll have to attend and the place it lands.
And who doesn’t wish to see Agent Carter and Huge Nick group as much as take down baddies?
Gerard Butler as ‘Huge Nick’ O’Brien in ‘Den of Thieves 2: Pantera’. Picture Credit score: Rico Torres for Lionsgate.