‘Big meets bigger’
Rampage is a 2018 American action monster film directed by Brad Peyton from a screenplay by Ryan Engle. It is based on the 1980’s arcade video game of the same name by Midway Games.
The film stars Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Åkerman, Joe Manganiello, Jake Lacy, Marley Shelton, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Primatologist Davis Okoye, a man who keeps people at a distance, shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, albino silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth.
However, a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals.
As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend…
New Line Cinema will release Rampage on April 20, 2018 in RealD 3D and IMAX.
Main cast:
- Dwayne Johnson as Davis Okoye, a primatologist and head of an anti-poaching unit out of Rwanda.
- Naomie Harris as Dr. Kate Caldwell, a discredited genetic engineer who teams up with Okoye.
- Malin Åkerman as Claire Wyden, the villainess who infects a gorilla, alligator and wolf with a serum that will cause rapid growth and induced rage.
- Joe Manganiello as Burke, the leader of a private military group
- Jake Lacy
- Marley Shelton as a scientist and astronaut
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Agent Russell, a government agent with attitude who works for an agency called OGA.
- P. J. Byrne as a scientist
- Jack Quaid
- Matt Gerald
- Breanne Hill as Amy
- Urijah Faber
Filming locations:
Principal photography began on April 17, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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