Scottish action hero Gerard Butler is set to star in the global action-thriller “Remote Control” for STX.
“Gladiator,” “Logan” and “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” cinematographer John Mathieson will direct the project from a script by Mark Burnell adapting his own novel.
Butler will play Michael Rafter, a former war correspondent turned corporate security consultant whose life is overturned when he receives a mysterious phone call from an unknown source.
Rafter uncovers the threads of a global conspiracy, finding himself drawn into a fight for his life and pursued by the 212, a powerful shadow organization who has erased his identity and framed him as the notorious international assassin Julian Irving.
Rafter must turn to the only person he can trust – his former lover, Tracy, who is also implicated in the conspiracy. The pair must stay ahead of the 212, the CIA and a team of professional assassins and unravel the mystery.
Butler, Alan Siegel and Ashok Amritraj will produce while Bond franchise duo Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli will executive produce.
This marks Butler’s third picture with STX following “Den of Thieves” and Ric Roman Waugh’s natural disaster feature “Greenland” which has yet to be released.
Butler is also slated to return for a “Den of Thieves” sequel and is readying the real-time action-thriller “The Plane” in which he plays a pilot trying to land a storm-damaged aircraft in a war zone.
Source: Collider
