Skyscraper‘s Production Designer Elevates the Mythic Subtext to Insane Heights

Production designer Jim Bissell faced a 226-story challenge when Skyscraper writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber enlisted him to create Hong Kong high rise “The Pearl.” Oscar-nominated for his work on Good Night, and Good Luck and experienced in the ways of architecture-driven action through his contributions to Tom Cruise’s dizzying skyscraper stunts in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Bissell needed to come up with a tower every bit as dramatic as the movie’s human star Dwayne Johnson.

Stomach-Churning New Skyscraper Trailer Will Leave You Reeling

On a sleepy Monday morning, Universal Pictures has one-upped your latte with an adrenaline shot that is sure to get your blood going.

With less than two weeks until Skyscraper drops and The Rock tries not to, the studio is teasing even more footage of its upcoming blockbuster, which also stars Neve Campbell and Pablo Schreiber. “Don’t look down,” the trailer tells us. But then, of course,

Skyscraper‘s Byron Mann Talks Dwayne Johnson, Action Pics and TV

Byron Mann is a remarkably versatile actor who appears opposite Dwayne Johnson in the upcoming action thriller Skyscraper, which looks like a combination of Die Hard and Towering Inferno. In an interview, the star of Arrow, The Big Short, Hell on Wheels, and Street Fighter, talks about the challenges of the green screen, getting fit for shirts-off action scenes,

Dwayne Johnson Shares a 3,000 Foot View of Skyscraper

Costars Dwayne Johnson and Neve Campbell, along with director Rawson Marshall Thurber, dish on how their upcoming blockbuster Skyscraper is changing the game in this new featurette.

“Will Sawyer is a special character because when we meet him, he’s an amputee, and he’s just trying to put his life back together, and the guy’s struggling,” Johnson says about his upcoming role. The actor has publicly shown how seriously he is taking playing an amputee,

Dwayne Johnson Leaps From A Very Tall Building in new Skyscraper Trailer

Fight Jurassic-sized crocodiles and flying wolves? Check. Next up for the indefatigable, indestructible Dwayne Johnson is director Rawson Marshall Thurber’s Skyscraper, which sees the Rock one-upping Bruce Willis from his Die Hard days with an epic actioner set a mile in the sky. The second trailer for Skyscraper pits Johnson against the tallest building in the world, and both of them are smouldering.

Dwayne Johnson Isn’t the Only Thing Smoldering in a New Digital Skyscraper Poster

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson may be the hero we truly deserve. His latest film, Rampage, enjoyed a successful opening weekend, as our favorite be-muscled hero saved Chicago—and by extension the world—from mutated creatures. Yet when you’ve got charisma and pecs to spare, your work is never done. To wit: Johnson is off to China to save the day (again) when a Skyscraper goes up in flames in, wait for it,

The World’s Tallest Building is in Flames and Only Dwayne Johnson Can Save the Day in Skyscraper Trailer

Dwayne Johnson tried to warn everyone the skyscraper wasn’t safe, but would they listen? Of course not. And as a result, a 3500-foot building goes up in flames, and he’s the only one who can save the day. After watching this trailer, we’re going to ask for a lower room when we check into hotels.

Johnson plays former FBI-agent turned security expert, Will Ford, in Skyscraper. When a company hires him to assess the security of The Pearl,