Gerard Butler’s latest film, Plane, is conquering the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Gerard Butler is ready to reclaim his place as a big movie star with Plane, his latest action film that premiered this week and has everyone talking about it. Especially the audience, who seemed to be fascinated with the explosive story and Butler’s action-packed performance.
The action-survival thriller follows pilot Brodie Torrance, who saves his passengers from a thunderstorm by landing his plane on a remote and highly dangerous island. But that will be the beginning of an angry fight for survival since most travelers will be held hostage by an armed group. In such a situation, the only person Torrance can count on is a man named Louis Gaspar, who is accused of murder and transported by the FBI on the same flight. Each will need the other to survive this challenge.
After its debut, the movie is currently certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with 74% of positive reviews from the critics and 95% from the audience, which is the highest audience rating in his career. Besides its great reception, the movie is performing pretty well at the box office, just behind Avatar: The Way of Water and M3gan, which have dominated theaters in the past few weeks. Plane is expected to collect between $7 and $10 million in its first weekend, according to Deadline.
Gerard Butler’s Accident While Filming Plane
Butler has become a massive action star, starring in movies like 300 and London Has Fallen and occasionally acting in rom-coms such as The Ugly Truth or The Bounty Hunter.
But, as can often happen with actors who focus on the world of action, injuries can come with the role. In this case, a hazardous accident resulted in Butler burning himself with acid.
“No matter what I’m doing, I manage to hurt myself […] We’re also shooting in Puerto Rico, so I’m covered in sweat, and the adrenaline, and the nose is running and everything. And I guess especially with Covid, you realize why this thing spreads, right, because I’m rubbing my face, and suddenly it’s in my throat, it’s in my mouth, it’s up my nose, it’s in my eyes, it’s burning my face. And I mean burning. And it turns out this is essentially phosphoric acid.”
Right now, his next movie, Kandahar, is in post-production. The story follows Tom Harris, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in Afghanistan’s hostile territory. He must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all while avoiding the elite special forces tasked with hunting them down.
Plane is available in theaters now.
