Sawyer tries to return to the Pearl, but is attacked by Xia, one of Botha's associates. Gillespie reveals he is also working for Botha and attacks Sawyer for the tablet, but the confrontation concludes with Gillespie dying.īotha and a group of his men break into the Pearl and undermine the safety systems by using a water-reactive chemical to start a fire on the 96th floor, creating a barrier that renders it impossible to enter to or exit from the upper 130 floors. Sawyer and Gillespie head to the offsite facility, but a thief hired by international terrorist Kores Botha attempts to steal the tablet. Zhao provides him with a tablet that gives Sawyer complete control over the Pearl’s systems. Sawyer meets with Zhao, Gillespie, security director Okeke and head insurance underwriter Pierce, to report that the computerized fire and security systems have passed his tests, though he needs to inspect the offsite security center. Sawyer is joined by his wife, Sarah, and twin children, Georgia and Henry, staying with him on the not-yet-opened residential floors. 1,060-meter), 225-floor tower, "The Pearl", for owner Zhao Long Ji. Ten years later, Sawyer is a private security consultant who, on a recommendation from Gillespie, is hired to review security for the world’s tallest skyscraper, Hong Kong’s 3,500-feet (appx. Will Sawyer, a Marine veteran turned FBI Hostage Rescue Team commander, loses his left leg below the knee when he and HRT colleague Ben Gillespie encounter a hostage taker with a suicide bomb. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Johnson's performance and the film's suspenseful scenes, but criticized the story as clichéd and too similar to The Towering Inferno (1974) and Die Hard (1988). Skyscraper underperformed at the box office, grossing over $304 million worldwide against its production budget of $125 million and prompting Legendary to end its distribution deal with Universal. Skyscraper premiered in Beijing, on Jand was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on July 13, 2018, in 2D and RealD 3D formats. Additional photography and exteriors were filmed at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. Filming began in August 2017 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Apart from Johnson's casting, the casting call began from June to August 2017. Johnson were cast to play the lead, while Thurber was attached as the film's scriptwriter, director and producer, with Flynn producing the film through his Flynn Picture Company, alongside Johnson's Seven Bucks Productions, with Universal handling distribution rights. The first non-comedy of Thurber's career, it also marks his second collaboration with Johnson, following Central Intelligence (2016).ĭevelopment started in May 2016 when Legendary Entertainment won the bidding war for a Chinese-set action adventure film. In the film, Will Sawyer, a former FBI agent, must rescue his family from a newly built Hong Kong skyscraper, the tallest in the world, after terrorists set the building on fire in an attempt to extort the property developer. Produced by Legendary Pictures, Seven Bucks Productions and FlynnPictureCo., the film stars Dwayne Johnson in the lead role, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller, Noah Taylor, Byron Mann, Pablo Schreiber, and Hannah Quinlivan. Skyscraper is a 2018 American action thriller film written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber.
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