Gerard Butler To Be THE BRICKLAYER in FBI Thriller?
Tonight I’m heading off to a charity football match (or soccer to our American friends)in Glasgow, a game of legends from Celtic and Manchester Utd plus a few hollywood celebs. One of the Hollywood celebs will be dawning the famous Hoops tonight to play for his boyhood heros plus he is also a fellow Paisley man Gerard Butler, whose next movie could see him ‘laying bricks’.
The Scottish actor according to THR will be taking lead role for Millennium Films in THE BRICKLAYER a movie to be based on Noah Boyd’s book of the same name, which will the actor play retired FBI Agent who is a Bricklayer in Chicago and is called back into duty after criminals gangs “demanding an escalating series of multi-million dollar ransom payments.” Hanna Weg will write the script with Butler producing the flick with Alan Siegel and Danielle Robinson.
Here is the Amazon synopsis:
The pseudonymous Boyd, a former FBI agent, fails to bring much convincing insider information to his debut, a routine thriller. FBI deputy assistant director Kate Bannon tracks down Steve Vail, a maverick FBI agent who left the bureau for a new life as a Chicago bricklayer, because she needs Vail’s help in apprehending a criminal gang, the Rubaco Pentad, with a grudge against the FBI. The Pentad follows up the murder of L.A. reporter Connie Lysander, who wrote a story critical of the FBI, with ever-increasing demands for money from the bureau to forestall future killings and the setting of sophisticated death traps. When an agent disappears while making a payoff to the gang, he becomes a prime suspect, despite Vail’s reservations. Predictable plot elements include the hero’s incredible escapes from peril and the growing romantic bond between the laconic Vail and the attractive Bannon. The identity of the person behind the Pentad will surprise few.
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