Gerard Butler plays a hitman in ‘Copshop’. Image via Instagram @mr.gerry_butler.
Trailer alert: Gerard Butler plays a hitman in action film ‘Copshop’ [watch]
Gerard Butler is back at it again! This time he joins Frank Grillo and Alexis Louder on action thriller ‘CopShop’. Watch the trailer here.
Gerard Butler plays a hitman in ‘Copshop’. Image via Instagram @mr.gerry_butler.
Scottish actor Gerard Butler is set to play a hitman named Bob Viddick in the action thriller Copshop releasing on 17 September.
Gerard Butler has been signing in for role after role. Starting from the announcement of another Fallen movie, to a Greenaland sequel, The Plane and now Copshop.
WHAT IS ‘COPSHOP’ ABOUT?
According to Urban Dictionary, a “copshop” is a slang term for a police station which is where the main characters of the film find themselves.
Copshop follows a sharp-witted con artist who is on the run from a lethal assassin. He then devises a scheme to hide out in a small town police station, where hitman – Bob Viddick, played by Gerard Butler turns up at the precinct and an unsuspecting rookie cop finds herself caught in the crosshairs.
“Screaming through the Nevada desert in a bullet-ridden Crown Vic, wily con artist Teddy Murretto (Frank Grillo) hatches a desperate plan to hide out from lethal hitman Bob Viddick (Gerard Butler): He sucker-punches rookie officer Valerie Young (Alexis Louder) to get himself arrested and locked up in a small-town police station,” reads the film’s synopsis according to Open Road Films.
“But jail can’t protect Murretto for long. Viddick schemes his own way into detention, biding his time in a nearby cell until he can complete his mission. When the arrival of a competing assassin (Toby Huss) ignites all-out mayhem, mounting threats force Viddick to get creative if he wants to finish the job and escape the explosive situation,” continues the synopsis.
BEHIND-THE-SCENE’S OF ‘COPSHOP’
According to Deadline, the script for Copshop was penned by Kurt McLeod and Joe Carnahan, who also serves as the director. Tom Ortenberg, Matthew Sidari, Scott Puttman, Robert Simonds, Adam Fogelson, and John Friedberg are executive producers while Carnahan and stars Grillo and Butler produced the film alongside Alan Siegel, Mark Williams, Tai Duncan, Warren Goz, Eric Gold, and James Masciello.
“Anticipating the resurgence of cinema going post-pandemic, we made Copshop with theatrical audiences specifically in mind, delivering a big-time event experience with an original bent,” said James Masciello to Deadline.
“Everyone is at the top of their game in Copshop and we can’t wait for audiences to strap in, and experience this ride for themselves,” he added.
“Continuing to build off our successful pandemic era theatrical slate with Liam Neeson’s Honest Thief and The Marksman, all of us at Open Road Films are excited to continue bringing thrilling action films to theatres on the big screen, now with Copshop, starring Gerard Butler and Frank Grillo,” said Tom Ortenberg to Deadline.
