A major Marvel star has joined the cast of Gerard Butler's upcoming hostage thriller Empire City . Butler is best known for starring in films like 300 , Olympus Has Fallen , The Phantom of the Opera , Den of Thieves and How to Train Your Dragon .

His next project is a movie called Empire City , in which the actor plays Rhett, a firefighter who attempts to save several innocent lives amid a hostage crisis at the Clybourn Building in New York City.

Deadline is reporting that Hayley Atwell has signed on to co-star in Empire City as Rhett's wife, Dani, who's a member of the New York City Police Department and is tasked with rescuing the hostages alongside her husband.

The film is being directed by Love & Monsters ' Michael Matthews, with the script written by Brian T

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