Sawyer finds Georgia, but they are captured by Botha, who demands Zhao in return for Georgia. Sawyer has Sarah and Henry ride through the fire barrier in a free-fall elevator before applying the emergency brakes, letting them escape safely Sarah immediately explains the situation to Wu and that Botha's men will likely escape via parachute to a nearby landing zone. He kills Pierce before Pierce can kill his family, though Georgia is separated from the others. Sawyer evades them and makes his way into the Pearl above the fire barrier using a crane from an adjacent building. HKPF Inspector Wu and his team attempt to secure the Pearl and capture Sawyer, who is believed to be behind the incidents. Urged on by Pierce, Zhao orders the remaining personnel to evacuate via helicopter, but Pierce reveals he is also an agent for Botha, killing all but Zhao, who escapes into his penthouse apartment and subsequently locks it down from any intrusion. Zhao and Okeke send security guards to rescue Sawyer's family, but the guards are killed by an explosion and the family is believed dead. They then use the tablet to disable the fire-extinguishing systems in the Pearl and activate the air vents to spread the fire to the upper floors. Xia and her agents take the tablet and kill everyone at the offsite facility. Sawyer tries to return to the Pearl, but is attacked by Xia, one of Botha's associates. Botha 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.
Gillespie reveals he is also working for Botha and attacks Sawyer for the tablet, but the confrontation concludes with Gillespie dying. Sawyer and Gillespie head to the offsite facility, but a thief hired by international terrorist Kores Botha attempts to steal the tablet. Zhao provides Sawyer with a tablet that gives him 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 Henry and Georgia, 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 is recommended by Gillespie to review the 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 clichéd story and deemed 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 and start a new one with Warner Bros. Skyscraper premiered in Beijing on Jand was released in the United States on July 13, 2018. 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 was 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 and Universal Pictures 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 Flynn Picture Company, the film stars Dwayne Johnson in the lead role, with Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller, Noah Taylor, Byron Mann, Pablo Schreiber, and Hannah Quinlivan in supporting roles. Skyscraper is a 2018 American action thriller film written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber.
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