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Hayley Atwell Joins Gerard Butler In Hostage Crisis Action-Thriller ‘Empire City’ With Filming Due To Begin This Month

Empire City stars Gerard Butler and Hayley Atwell in a hostage rescue thriller set in New York’s Clybourn Building, beginning filming this November.

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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 Y…

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The British actress takes on a new leading role in the Empire City action thriller, where she plays a police officer who faces a hostage crisis alongside her husband, played by Gerard Butler.

"Captain America" and "Mission: Impossible" star Hayley Atwell has joined Gerard Butler in the hostage-taking action thriller Empire City, which is set to begin filming this month. The film follows a hostage crisis in an iconic New York building, where firefighter Rhett (Butler), his team, and the crew are forced to

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Deadline broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Thursday, November 6, 2025.
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