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.
Gillespie reveals he is also working for Botha and attacks Sawyer for the tablet, ending with Gillespie’s death.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. 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 (1,060 meter), 225 floor tower, "The Pearl", for owner Zhao Long Ji. Will Sawyer, a Marine veteran turned FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader, 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 and script as clichéd, and too similar to The Towering Inferno and Die Hard. The film premiered in Beijing, on Jand was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on July 13, 2018, in 2D and RealD 3D formats, and grossed over $304 million worldwide against its production budget of $125 million, making it a box-office bomb. Filming began in September 2017 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 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. Johnson portrays a former FBI agent who 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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