EXCLUSIVE : Mission Impossible and Captain America star Hayley Atwell is joining Gerard Butler in hostage crisis action-thriller Empire City , which is due to begin filming this month.

Michael Matthews ( Love & Monsters ) is newly aboard to direct the pic scripted by Brian Tucker and S. Craig Zahler. We first told you about the movie last Cannes. The story has slightly tweaked since then.

In Empire City , when a hostage crisis erupts inside New York’s landmark Clybourn Building, firefighter Rhett (Butler), his squad, and his NYPD wife Dani (Atwell) must fight and navigate their way through the building to rescue the captives.

The project reunites Butler and his G-BASE partner Alan Siegel with fellow Plane producer Marc Butan from MadRiver Pictures. Paul Currie will

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