Reviews are out for the Gerard Butler and Mike Colter-led action thriller “Plane” with the title clocking up a so-so 64% on Rotten Tomatoes from nearly 40 reviews so far.
The film is said to boast a more gritty realistic aesthetic than glossy studio action film spectacle, though you wouldn’t necessarily garner that from the film’s punchy, simplistic one-word title.
Turns out though, there was a push within the studio to change that name. Speaking with Kevin McCarthy TV, Butler revealed that several other titles were under consideration but he fought to keep the more direct title as he says it just works: “We had other titles, at one point ‘Mayday,’ and I was like no no, it’s Plane! It’s a plane!”
Separately speaking with Uproxx, Butler also revealed that “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr. is apparently a big fan of the Butler-led and Antoine Fuqua-directed 2013 action thriller “Olympus Has Fallen”.
Butler says Downey Jr. personally contacted Butler, saying:
“He wrote me the nicest email after ‘Olympus Has Fallen’. He’s like, ‘We need more of these movies.’ These are the movies when I was in New York as a kid, and people would shout at the screen and throw things and be like, ‘No!,’ and applaud and cheer… They’re fun. There are reasons that they’ve survived. There are reasons that audiences come out. It’s like you say, it’s a throwback to the 1990s movies where you’re just like, ‘Come on!'”
“Olympus Has Fallen” was the first in a trilogy (so far) of films in which Butler plays a secret service agent who fights terrorists in the White House and saves the president (Aaron Eckhart). The project grossed $170 million worldwide.
“Plane” opens in theaters tomorrow.
