![]() ![]() He has crack comic timing, a preposterous amount of screen presence, acting chops – see: Pain and Gain (2013) – and a body that suggests he may have spent some time inside a gym. (Things he has not saved: the reputation of plaster casts as a durable item and that Baywatch flick.) An informal list of people, places and other miscellany that the man still known by many as “The Rock” has protected, defended and/or rescued: a young Polynesian woman, part of the Egyptian empire, ancient Greece, San Francisco, fellow video-game avatars, the World Wrestling Federation, the professional secrets of tooth fairies, a gang of internationally wanted outlaw street racers, Kevin Hart (numerous times), an albino gorilla, humanity, several franchises, the concept of the action hero specifically and movie stardom in general. It’s sort of his signature thing, really. I don't know, I guess it's my love letter to those movies.Dwayne Johnson saves. Skyscraper is like the kind of movie I grew up watching: Die Hard, Towering Inferno, The Fugitive. ![]() And they don't really make these movies any more. And we're the only picture that doesn't really have a superhero at its center, when you talk about these big tentpoles. We have sequels on either side of us - we have 11 sequels in sort of a five-week corridor - and we're the only original picture there. But I think that's what's so interesting about Skyscraper, is that it isn't about a superhero. It's clearly a good year for superheroes. On Skyscraper's place among this year's big movie releases, and if it's a good year for heroes And I think the film is so tense, and people are gripping their chairs and kind of watching it through their fingers, that you want those moments of relief so people can kind of shake the tension out and laugh and then buckle up again. Now certainly, Skyscraper isn't quite as funny as Die Hard, but we found the moments - the moments of levity. ![]() But that movie is about three jokes shy of a straight-up comedy. It's on the Mount Rushmore of action pictures. You know, Die Hard is one of my all-time favorite films. On building moments of humor into a high-tension movie What does his family mean to him? What is he willing to sacrifice? What is he willing to risk? And it turns out: He's willing to risk everything. And then the sort of beats that you talk about, where Dwayne's character Will Sawyer first attempts to use the crane hook to get in, and then that goes wrong, and then he doubles back and is going to try another way but he can't and he's cut off, and he's forced to make this leap of faith - you know, this is all stuff that you learn from Spielberg, I suppose, in the escalation of tension, the escalation of problem that pushes you toward character, toward revealing character. So how do you do it, right? So first I faced myself with that puzzle, and then there's that lightbulb moment, and I remember it distinctly, and I got really excited 'cause I'd never seen anything like it, and it seemed appropriately over-the-top for this kind of picture. The first is: How do you get into a burning building when your family's trapped above the fire line, 100 stories in the air? 'Cause you can't go in through the bottom and climb your way up. On coming up with the stunt where Dwayne Johnson jumps across a gap from a crane into the burning building. Maybe I should have made Ranch House or something." Yeah, I guess maybe I made the wrong movie. "My mom's scared of heights I'm scared of heights. He's speaking from the 116th floor of a hotel in Hong Kong, avoiding the windows. "I am scared of heights," Thurber says in an interview. The director, Rawson Marshall Thurber, is writing and making his second film with Johnson. There are lots of scary moments, lots of tension, and - if you are afraid of heights - lots more tension. The world's tallest building! On fire! With thousands of people inside! Including the hero's beautiful family! Johnson is of course the hero, a one-legged war veteran who must save the day. military veteran framed for setting the world's tallest building on fire - while his family is trapped in it - in the new movie Skyscraper.Ī new movie is coming from Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson - former pro wrestler, current action movie superstar. ![]()
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