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Gerard Butler as ‘Big Nick’ O’Brien in ‘Den of Thieves 2: Pantera’. Photo Credit: Rico Torres for Lionsgate.
Preview:
- Gerard Butler will star in new thriller ‘The Nest’.
- He’ll play a sniper racing to stop a threat at the soccer World Cup.
- Aaron Benjamin wrote the script.
The Cannes Film Festival is underway and with it the Cannes Film Market, where distribution rights new potential movies are up for sale. Which means, of course, that a thriller starring Gerard Butler is surely available.
Indeed, one is! Deadline reports that ‘The Nest’, which has a typically compelling ticking-clock concept (more on that below), is available from Black Bear.
Our only issue? Given the huge number of movies (and TV shows) already using that title, the film will surely change its name on the way to screens.
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What’s the story of ‘The Nest’?
(L to R) Maurice Compte and Gerard Butler in ‘Den of Thieves’. Photo: STXfilms.
Aaron Benjamin wrote the script based on real-life operatives, and it’ll follow a sniper (Butler) who receives an anonymous threat over the radio and must race against a ticking clock in order to save his family and 70,000 fans at the biggest sporting event on the globe – the World Cup.
No director is aboard yet, but the plan is to kick off filming early next year.
Where else can we see Gerard Butler?
Most recently on screens in ‘Greenland 2: Migration’, Butler will next be seen in movies including ‘Empire City’, the second live-action ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ and a third ‘Den of Thieves’ outing.
Gerard Butler as John Garrity in ‘Greenland 2: Migration’. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate.
