Between “Geostorm” and “Den of Thieves,” [Editor’s note: ‘Den of Thieves’ isn’t terrible. Honestly. I swear.] the recent track record of Gerard Butler hardly has us counting down the days until the “300” star’s next feature, but there’s always a chance that action-thriller “Hunter Killer” will at least serve as an amusing placeholder between “How to Train Your Dragon” sequels.
South African filmmaker Donovan Marsh even brings some noteworthy experience to the project, having directed the well-received 2010 comedy “Spud” and the 2013 action film “Avenged,” the latter of which has been tapped for a Hollywood remake.
Back in 2015, “Hunter Killer” was the subject of a legal dispute while in its development stages at a financially unstable Relativity Media. After the studio filed for bankruptcy, the film’s producer Neal Moritz and others associated with the film sued the company, accusing Relativity of fraudulently inducing them into a distribution deal while their company was “nothing more than a house of cards.” The project was later passed on to Millennium Films and picked up for distribution by Summit Entertainment.
And through all of that, somehow the film starring Butler, Gary Oldman, Common and Linda Cardellini has a release date!
“Hunter Killer” will hit theaters October 26.
Here are the synopsis and official trailer:
The USS Toledo—led by young, untested Captain Joe Glass—heads to the location where a new Russian sub sank in a thousand feet of freezing water under the polar ice cap, only to be followed by an American nuclear submarine.
Glass soon finds out the incident wasn’t an accident. He teams up with U.S. Navy Seals to find the Russian President, who is being held captive by a rogue general in an attempt to start World War III and reunite the Soviet Union. It’s up to Glass to rescue the president, avenge the deaths of the American sailors and avert another world war.
Based on the novel Firing Point by Don Keith and George Wallace.