‘Plane 2’ No Longer In Development At Lionsgate
Plane 2 has crashed ahead of production following lead actor Gerard Butler abandoning the shoot. Read our Plane 2 article.
Just three years following the huge success of Plane, its sequel, Plane 2, is no more. The reason? Lead star Gerard Butler inexplicably dropped out of the film just two weeks before production, leaving the film to slowly dissolve.
The news came from Mike Colter, the other lead of the film, who shared the news in an interview with entertainment outlet The Direct, stating:
“It just, last-minute, Gerard [Butler] decided he didn’t want to go forward with it and there wasn’t a lot of discussion about it. He just… two weeks out, he pulled out and we were sort of left trying to figure out what to do. And eventually, that dissolved.”
The news is eerily similar to what Joaquin Phoenix pulled before the production start of De Noche, where he would have starred alongside Danny Ramirez in a queer-romance, directed by Todd Haynes. Phoenix was widely criticised for the move, and one must wonder why Butler isn’t receiving the same treatment, or if the two situations aren’t alike at all.
Plane 2 would have followed how Captain Brodie Torrance (Butler) and Louis Gaspare got off the island where the plane crashlanded in the first film, making it a direct continuation. While this film won’t be moving forward, the spin-off sequel, following Mike Colter’s Louis Gaspare on a boat, titled Ship, will seemingly continue development.
Plane was released in 2023 to massive box office success. The film followed a plane pilot (Butler) who is forced to protect his passengers and find a way off an island occupied by opposing forces. To do this, he must team up with an alleged murderer (Colter). The film was directed by Jean-François Richet, and distributed by Lionsgate.
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