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Olympus Has Fallen For Gerard Butler

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Gerard Butler seems to love signing up for action movies that sound like they’re a little over the top, but might be good fun.That’s certainly true of Olympus Has Fallen, which despite the title won’t take him back into the Greek mythology world of 300, but will have him battling terrorists!

Variety reports that Butler has signed up to playa down-on-his-luck ex-Secret Service agent who ends up having to save the White House from a group of terrorists. The screenplay comes from first-timers Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt.

The film is being sold as being in the same vein as Die Hard, which kinda makes sense, as you do get the impression Butler would really love to be an 80s action star, but was born a couple decades too late. Filming is set to begin this September.

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Gerard Butler Wants To Be Brilliant

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It’s getting to the point where Gerard Butler signing on for a project should make us all wary, but the actor has boarded Lakeshore Entertainment’s diamond-heist thriller, Brilliant, taking over a role that was originally set for Eric Bana (but who has since moved on).

The movie reunites the actor with Robert Luketic, after they previously worked together on The Ugly Truth. Gillian Gorfil’s script for Brilliant follows a group of seasoned thieves who recruit a small-time criminal for a specialist job as they prepare for the biggest diamond heist of all time.

The movie is now busy trying to land a female lead before shooting starts this May in Boston.

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Michael Apted Taking Over Mavericks

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Normally when a director gets replaced on a project it’s because the studio doesn’t like the direction a film is going or because there have been major disagreements going on. It’s always far more unfortunate when it has to happen due to illness.

Curtis Hanson (LA Confidential) has been shooting Of Men and Mavericks in Northern California, and while it’s scheduled to wrap production early next month, a new director will be at the helm. Michael Apted is filling in for director Curtis Hanson for the last 15 days of principal photography, starting on Monday.

According to Deadline, Hanson recently experienced complications from a heart surgery, which leaves him incapable of finishing the production. It isn’t known if Michael Apted will oversee post-production as well, or when Curtis Hanson is expected to fully recover.

Of Men and Mavericks stars newcomer Jonny Weston as surfing legend Jay Moriarty, who conquered the treacherous Northern California waves known as the ‘Mavericks’. Gerard Butler is Rick ‘Frosty’ Hesson, Moriarty’s mentor, who taught him how to ride the formidable waves. The film is due out next autumn, so hopefully Hanson will recover soon and be able to have plenty of input before it gets to cinemas.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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Gerard Butler Turning Mercenary

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Both Ridley Scott and Gerard Butler love lining up endless projects that they put into development and wait to percolate, and now they’ve got one they want to make together, although it’s unlikely to be the next project for either. According to Deadline, Scott and Butler are tempting studios with a pitch they’re both on-board for, about mercenary Simon Mann.

Mann is ‘A former British army officer who in 2004 put together a band of mercenaries to attempt a coup against the president of Equatorial Guinea. The coup attempt was thwarted in Zimbabwe, where Mann went to pick up weapons. He spent five years in a harsh prison there before being taken to Equatorial Guinea where he was sentenced to 34 years–but spared that sentence when he received a presidential pardon in 2009.. His backers – Mann said one was Mark Thatcher, son of Margaret Thatcher – disavowed involvement with Mann after the coup failed.’

Mann himself is involved with the film and he and his wife Amanda have been making the rounds at the studios, making a pitch for the movie. Insiders say there are high hopes this will end in a deal – and with Scott and Butler attached, it almost certainly will.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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Butler,Worthington and McConaughey Take Thunder Run

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You can understand why motion-capture is a great technology to use in sci-fi and fantasy movies, but could it also be the future of war films? It appears Freedom Films thinks so, as THR reports they’re putting together Thunder Run, an all CG 3D action thriller, using their proprietary facial capture technology and the motion capture technology utilised in Avatar.

It appears they’ve also got a good cast together who’ve agreed to get in the morion capture suits, as it’s been announced Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington (who, of course, is a mo-cap veteran thanks to Avatar) and Matthew McConaughey will star, while Simon West will direct.

Thunder Run is based on the novel ‘Thunder Run – The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad’, by Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent David Zucchino, with the screenplay being handled by Academy Award-winner Robert David Port and Ken Nolan, screenwriter of Black Hawk Down.

It tells the story of the dangerous and bloody capture of Baghdad by American Forces at the onset of the Iraq War. In April 2003, three battalions and fewer than a thousand men launched a violent thrust of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles into the heart of a city of five million, igniting a three-day blitzkrieg, which military professionals often refer to as a lightning strike, or “thunder run.”

It’s certainly an intriguing idea, although it’s very uncertain whether audiences with buy into a war movie where everything is CG. The idea is to be able to tell the story on a huge scale (without it being prohibitively expensive to make) and to capture the feel of Call Of Duty on film, but we’ll have to wait and see if it actually works.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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Gerard Buter Is A Hunter Killer

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When Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) signs up to direct a movie, it’s very different to saying he will actually end up helming it, as he does have a tendency to jump from project to project. However, he’s now started casting Huter Killer, so it looks like he might actually make the action-thriller. Variety reports that Gerard Butler is in talks to star in the movie, with Sam Worthington being sought for another role.

The project is based on George Wallace and Don Keith’s upcoming novel, which follows an inexperienced US submarine captain who teams up with a Navy SEAL unit on a mission to rescue an overthrown Russian president. They must also stop a rogue Russian general from igniting World War III. Yep, it’s a plot from a movie of the early 90s, but we’re getting it in the 2010s instead!

Gerard Butler is in discussions to play the submarine captain, Joe Glass, while Sam Worthington is being considered to play Bill Beaman, the Navy SEAL team leader (although it’s not known if Worthington is interested).

Antoine Fuqua is directing Hunter Killer from a screenplay by Jamie Moss, Arne Schmidt, and John Kolvenbach, with shooting scheduled to start this winter.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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