Gerard Butler as Brodie Torrance in ‘Plane.’ Photo Credit: Kenneth Rexach.
Gerard Butler is among the hottest actors working at this time.
He helped launch the profession of director Zack Snyder along with his work on ‘300,’ created well-liked franchises from movie’s like ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ and ‘How to Train Your Dragon,’ and is scheduled to shoot the upcoming sequels for fan-favorite films like ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ and ‘Den of Thieves.’
His newest film, the action-thriller ‘Plane’ co-starring Mike Colter, opens in theaters on Friday, January thirteenth.
In honor of the discharge of ‘Plane,’ Moviefone has compiled a listing of the 25 finest Gerard Butler films of all-time, together with ‘Plane.’
Let’s start!
Abraham Van Helsing (Christopher Plummer), who has tangled with Count Dracula (Butler) previously, works as an English antiques vendor. Simon (Jonny Lee Miller) is a vampire hunter in coaching below his apprenticeship.
Dracula 2000
“The Most Seductive Evil of All Time Has Now Been Unleashed in Ours.”
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1 hr 39 minDec twenty second, 2000
24. ‘Gamer‘ (2009)
Mind-control know-how has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line recreation known as “Slayers” permits gamers to regulate human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon (Logan Lerman) controls Kable (Butler), the net champion of the sport. Kable’s final problem turns into regaining his id and independence by defeating the sport’s mastermind (Michael C. Hall).
Gamer
“In the near future, you don’t live to play… you’ll play to live.”
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1 hr 35 minSep 4th, 2009
Captain Glass (Butler) of the USS Arkansas discovers {that a} coup d’état is going down in Russia, so he and his crew be part of an elite group engaged on the bottom to stop a struggle.
Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) ventures to an underwater temple in the hunt for the mythological Pandora’s Box however, after securing it, it’s promptly stolen by the villainous chief of a Chinese crime syndicate. Lara should get better the field earlier than the syndicate’s evil mastermind (Ciarán Hinds) makes use of it to assemble a weapon of catastrophic capabilities.
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer (Matthew McConaughey) and a British survivor (Christian Bale) staff as much as combat off a brood of fire-breathing dragons looking for to return to world dominance after centuries of relaxation underground. The Brit — main a clan of survivors to seek out the King of the Dragons — has a lot at stake: His mom was killed by a dragon, however his love (Izabella Scorupco) remains to be alive.
A bunch of archaeological college students (Butler, Paul Walker, and Frances O’Connor) turn out to be trapped previously after they go there to retrieve their professor (Billy Connolly). The group should survive in 14th century France lengthy sufficient to be rescued.
John Garrity (Butler), his estranged spouse (Morena Baccarin) and their younger son embark on a deadly journey to seek out sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles towards Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of cities getting leveled, the Garritys expertise the most effective and worst in humanity. As the countdown to the worldwide apocalypse approaches zero, their unbelievable trek culminates in a determined and last-minute flight to a attainable secure haven.
Deformed since beginning, a bitter man identified solely because the Phantom (Butler) lives within the sewers beneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure refrain singer Christine (Emmy Rossum), and privately tutors her whereas terrorizing the remainder of the opera home and demanding Christine be given lead roles. Things worsen when Christine meets again up together with her childhood acquaintance Raoul (Patrick Wilson) and the 2 fall in love.
The Phantom of the Opera
“The classic musical comes to the big screen for the first time.”
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2 hr 23 minDec twenty second, 2004
A revered bounty hunter’s (Butler) newest gig is moderately satisfying, as his bail-skipper is his ex-wife (Jennifer Aniston), who has no intention of getting nabbed and not using a combat.
The Bounty Hunter
“It’s a Job. It Isn’t Personal. Well, Maybe a Little…”
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1 hr 50 minMar nineteenth, 2010
Warner Bros. Pictures
After an unprecedented sequence of pure disasters threatened the planet, the world’s leaders got here collectively to create an intricate community of satellites to regulate the worldwide local weather and hold everybody secure. But now, one thing has gone incorrect: the system constructed to guard Earth is attacking it, and it turns into a race towards the clock to uncover the true risk earlier than a worldwide geostorm wipes out every thing and everybody together with it.
A younger widow (Hilary Swank) discovers that her late husband (Butler) has left her 10 messages meant to assist ease her ache and begin a brand new life.
The true story of Sam Childers (Butler), a former drug-dealing biker who finds God and have become a crusader for lots of of Sudanese kids who’ve been kidnapped and pressed into obligation as troopers.
After a treacherous assault, Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Butler) is charged with trying to assassinate President Trumbull (Morgan Freeman). Chased by his personal colleagues and the FBI (Jada Pinkett Smith), Banning begins a race towards the clock to clear his title.
On the run from a deadly murderer, a wily con artist (Frank Grillo) devises a scheme to cover out inside a small-town police station. However, when the hit man (Butler) turns up on the precinct, an unsuspecting rookie cop (Alexis Louder) finds herself caught within the crosshairs.
Five years have handed since Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and Toothless (Randy Thom) united the dragons and Vikings of Berk. Now, they spend their time charting unmapped territories. During one in all their adventures, the pair uncover a secret cave that homes lots of of untamed dragons — and a mysterious dragon rider who seems to be Hiccup’s mom, Valka (Cate Blanchett). Hiccup and Toothless then discover themselves on the middle of a battle to guard Berk from a power-hungry warrior named Drago (Djimon Hounsou).
Gramercy Pictures and Focus Features
In London for the Prime Minister’s funeral, Mike Banning (Butler) discovers a plot to assassinate all of the attending world leaders.
London Has Fallen
“The world’s leaders have assembled. So have their enemies.”
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1 hr 39 minMar 4th, 2016
Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes), is an conceited and fearsome normal who has constructed a profession on defending Rome from its enemies. Pushed by his bold mom (Vanessa Redgrave) to hunt the place of consul, Coriolanus is at odds with the plenty and unpopular with sure colleagues. When a riot leads to his expulsion from Rome, Coriolanus seeks out his sworn enemy, Tullus Aufidius (Butler). Together, the pair vow to destroy the good metropolis.
Surfer Jay Moriarity (Jonny Weston) units out to trip the Northern California break often called Mavericks.
When a Russian mobster (Karel Roden) units up an actual property rip-off that generates tens of millions of kilos, varied members of London’s felony underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, together with Mr One-Two (Butler), Stella the accountant (Thandiwe Newton), and Johnny Quid (Toby Kebbell), a druggie rock-star, attempt to declare their slice.
As the son of a Viking chief on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (Jay Baruchel) faces a ceremony of passage: he should kill a dragon to show his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he not needs to destroy it, and as an alternative befriends the beast – which he names Toothless (Randy Thom) – a lot to the chagrin of his warrior father (Butler).
5. ‘Plane‘ (2023)
(L to R) Daniella Pineda as Bonnie Lane, Gerard Butler as Brodie Torrance, and Yoson An as Samuel Dele in ‘Plane.’ Photo Credit: Kenneth Rexach.
After a heroic job of efficiently touchdown his storm-damaged plane in a struggle zone, a fearless pilot (Butler) finds himself between the agendas of a number of militias planning to take the airplane and its passengers hostage.
Plane
“Survive together or die alone.”
After a heroic job of efficiently touchdown his storm-damaged plane in a struggle zone, a fearless pilot finds himself between the agendas of a number of militias planning… Read the Plot
A pissed off man (Butler) decides to take justice into his personal arms after a plea cut price units one in all his household’s killers free. He targets not solely the killer but additionally the district lawyer (Jamie Foxx) and others concerned within the deal.
A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff’s Dept. and the state’s most profitable financial institution theft crew because the outlaws plan a seemingly inconceivable heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
When the White House (Secret Service Code: “Olympus”) is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President (Aaron Eckhart) is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning (Butler) finds himself trapped inside the constructing. As the nationwide safety staff scrambles to reply, they’re compelled to depend on Banning’s inside data to assist retake the White House, save the President and avert a good greater catastrophe.
1. ‘300‘ (2007)
Warner Bros. Pictures
Based on Frank Miller‘s graphic novel and directed by Zack Snyder, ‘300’ may be very loosely primarily based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, the place the King of Sparta (Butler) led his military towards the advancing Persians; the battle is claimed to have impressed all of Greece to band collectively towards the Persians, and helped usher on the earth’s first democracy.
