![]() ![]() In the trailer for the movie, which opens July 13, the star performs a number of death-defying feats, but there’s one particularly eye-popping moment: when he hangs by his prosthetic foot from a rope on the side of the building. Drama in the action-adventure film released in the US tomorrow, 13 July 2018 revolves around an imaginary 240-storey skyscraper in Hong Kong, called The Pearl, which catches on fire. Playing a disabled war veteran who now assesses security for skyscrapers, Dwayne Johnson springs to the rescue when the Pearl comes under attack. Stunt: Leave it to one of the world’s biggest action stars to take on one of the world’s biggest buildings. Here, from the highest high-rise to the (relatively) lowest, is a look at how Hollywood has scaled action heights.īuilding: The (fictional) Pearl, Hong Kong Updated Feb 20, 2018, 8:30am MST A proposal for the tallest skyscraper in Colorado has inched forward with the filing of concept documents for an 81-story hotel and residential building. This summer, Dwayne Johnson will find himself atop the world’s tallest in the appropriately titled “Skyscraper,” and it’s not even his first go-round with a movie tower this year. Dwayne Johnson attempts a death-defying rescue when his family becomes trapped within a burning skyscraper. And the buildings, along with studio ambitions, keep getting higher. Since King Kong climbed to the top of the Empire State Building in 1933, the movies have often relied on skyscrapers as a tense setting for action thrills.
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