ODEON Magazine Issue 105 - July/August 2018 | Page 7

The Rock’s work-out sessions were notoriously intense Watch the trailer Skyscraper TBC It’s The Rock versus a towering inferno in this blisteringly fun action thriller DIRECTOR Rawson Marshall Thurber starring Dwayne Johnson, Pablo Schreiber, Neve Campbell There’s no escaping Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson at the moment – but then, why would you want to? The guy is a bone fide legend and we hope he continues with his current quick-fire approach to movie-making, because we’re absolutely loving it. Hot on the heels of last December’s phenomenally successful Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (still going strong at the global box office with $960 million) and April’s epic monster mash-up Rampage, comes this gripping, high- stakes actioner. And when we say high, we mean high! 12 JUL DWAYNE JOHNSON BY NUMBERS Johnson’s height in centimetres, making him a towering 6ft 5in The number of kids he has. His most recent – Tiana Gia – was born in April this year The number of times The Rock has been crowned WWF/WWE Champion! Reteaming the larger- than-life star with director Rawson Marshall Thurber (the pair worked together on 2016’s brilliant buddy comedy Central Intelligence), Skyscraper sees Johnson playing Will Sawyer, a former FBI hostage rescue team leader turned “glorified security guard”, who’s brought in to assess the safety of the world’s tallest building in China. He takes his wife (Neve Campbell) and two kids along to enjoy the view, but then the 242-storey ‘Pearl’ catches fire and he’s framed for it. Can Will clear his name, find the real baddies and save his trapped loved ones (who are above the fire line)? You know what to do to find out... odeon.co.uk 7 July