With Gerard Butler aboard to lead his new sci-fi thriller Geostorm, director Dean Devlin has been busy rounding up the rest of the cast. He now has Jim Sturgess, Abby Cornish, Ed Harris and Andy Garcia making deals to appear{
In the future-set story, Butler plays a charming but stubborn satellite designer called in to help when the orbiting devices that control the Earth’s weather start to go haywire, leading to fears that the worst storm humanity has ever known could soon befall us all.
Sturgess will be Butler’s estranged brother, with whom he’ll have to work if he’s to stop the meteorological apocalypse. But that’s not all: amid the mission to save the world, he also discovers that someone is plotting to assassinate the president. Never rains but it pours, eh? Probably literally in this case. Wait, is this like an Olympus Has Fallen meets The Day After Tomorrow mash-up?
Cornish will a Secret Service agent in a relationship with Sturgess, with Harris as the Secretary of State and Garcia sitting behind the big desk in the Oval Office. That cast list might immediately suggest to you a prime suspect in the assassination plot, but of course that would be wild speculation on your part that we could not condone.
Kieran and Michele Mulroney have worked on the script, originally written by the director, and Warner Bros. is looking to have shooting kick off this October in New Orleans.