Skyscraper

Skyscraper

2018 film by Rawson Marshall Thurber
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Skyscraper is a 2018 American action thriller film written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. 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. 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. The first non-comedy of Thurber's career, it also marks his second collaboration with Johnson, following Central Intelligence (2016).

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  • July 1, 2018 (2018-07-01) (Beijing)
  • July 13, 2018 (2018-07-13) (United States)
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102 minutes
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United States
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$125-129 million
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$304.9 million

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(first lines) Attention all units, attention all units, probable of domestic situation with hostage situation. 10-24, officer down. Perp is a caucasian male, no known priors. Considered extremely dangerous. Proceed with caution.: (over the radio) Attention all units, attention all units, probable of domestic situation with hostage situation. 10-24, officer down. Perp is a caucasian male, no known priors. Considered extremely dangerous. Proceed with caution.
  • The prologue's location is near Duluth, Minnesota. A Duluth Police squad car and a Minnesota State Trooper squad car are parked near each other and are briefly seen before Will Sawyer is first shown.
  • Closely related to The Towering Inferno - Movies are both about the tallest building in the world. Both buildings have a business lower half and a residential upper half. Upper half of each building is destroyed by fire. Helicopters explode on or near the roof.
  • Paul McGillion: As the director of operations in the prologue.
  • The prologue's location is near Duluth, MN. A Duluth Police squad car and a Minnesota State Trooper squad car are parked near each other and are briefly seen before we meet Dwayne Johnson's character.
  • When Will asks Zhao in the helicopter what he plans to do he says "rebuild ". This is exactly what Dwayne Johnson's character says when asked a similar question at the end of San Andreas

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