Law Abiding Citizen 2 In Development With Gerard Butler Producing
The action movie sequel Law Abiding Citizen 2 has been given the greenlight, nearly a decade after the original film was released. Law Abiding Citizen, which was helmed by The Fate of the Furious and Set It Off director F. Gary Gray, originally came to theaters on October 16, 2009. Gerard Butler played engineer Clyde Shelton, whose wife and daughter are murdered in front of him. When the killer gets off on a plea bargain, he decides to take the law into his own hands and exact his revenge. The cast also included Viola Davis, Bruce McGill, Leslie Bibb, Regina Hall, and Jamie Foxx as Nick Rice, the attorney who makes the deal.
Since its release, Law Abiding Citizen has not made much of an impression on the cinema landscape. At the time, its reception was mixed to negative, and the film currently stands at 26% on Rotten Tomatoes, though it does boast a 75% audience score. Its box office performance was also decent, bringing back a $127.9 million international gross off a budget of $50 million. It did well, but not enough to provoke discussion of a Law Abiding Citizen sequel at the time. Just four years later, Butler would strike gold with the action hit Olympus Has Fallen, which spawned two sequels and an impending fourth film titled Night Has Fallen, so it seemed that Law Abiding Citizen had been well and truly left in the dust.
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Per Deadline, Law Abiding Citizen 2 is officially moving forward. Producers Lucas Foster and Alan Siegel are returning along with original star Gerard Butler and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer in producing capacities. Rivulet Films’ Rob Paris and Mike Witherill are also producing alongside Village Roadshow Pictures'
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