Sylvester Stallone Arnold Schwarzenegger Escape Plan

2013 American prison house action thriller film by Mikael Håfström

Escape Programme
Theatrical release poster
Directed past	Mikael Håfström
Screenplay past	Miles Chapman Arnell Jesko
Story by	Miles Chapman
Produced by	Mark County Randall Emmett Remington Chase Robbie Brenner Kevin King-Templeton Stepan Martirosyan Kelly Dennis Brandon Grimes
Starring	Sylvester Stallone Arnold Schwarzenegger Jim Caviezel Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson Vinnie Jones Vincent D'Onofrio Amy Ryan
Cinematography	Brendan Galvin
Edited by	Elliot Greenberg
Music by	Alex Heffes
Product companies	Summit Entertainment Atmosphere Amusement Emmett/Furla Films Envision Entertainment Boies/Schiller Pic Group
Distributed by	Lionsgate^[1]
Release dates	July xviii, 2013 (2013-07-18) (San Diego Comic-Con) Oct 18, 2013 (2013-10-18) (United states of america)
Running time	115 minutes^[2]
Country	U.s.a.
Linguistic communication	English
Budget	$54–seventy million^[3] ^[iv]
Box office	$137.three million^[1]

Escape Plan is a 2013 American prison house action thriller film starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and co-starring Jim Caviezel, fifty Cent, Vinnie Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio and Amy Ryan.^[5] It was directed by Swedish filmmaker Mikael Håfström, and written past Miles Chapman and Jason Keller (nether the anagram pen-name 'Arnell Jesko').^[vi] The kickoff film to pair up Stallone and Schwarzenegger as co-leads,^[seven] it follows Stallone'southward character Ray Breslin, a lawyer turned prison house security tester who is incarcerated in the world'southward most underground and secure prison house, and recruits fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer, portrayed by Schwarzenegger, to stage a breakout. The picture show is the kickoff installment of the Escape Plan motion-picture show series.

The movie was released in the United States on Oct xviii, 2013, received mixed reviews and grossed $137 one thousand thousand worldwide against a $54 1000000 budget.

Plot [edit]

Former prosecutor Ray Breslin is the founder and co-owner of Breslin-Clark, a security business firm specializing in testing the security measures of supermax prisons. Posing as an inmate to study facilities from within and exploit their weaknesses to escape, Breslin is driven past the murders of his married woman and child by an escaped captive he had successfully prosecuted, and has garnered a reputation every bit the man who can escape any prison house.

Breslin and his business partner, Lester Clark, receive a multimillion-dollar deal from CIA operative Jessica Miller to exam a new, top cloak-and-dagger prison for disappeared persons on the condition that Ray and his team cannot know the prison house's true location. Although this violates his principles, Breslin agrees, assuasive himself to exist captured under the identity of a terrorist-for-rent. The plan goes awry when his captors remove a tracking microchip he had implanted in his arm and drug him, preventing his colleagues from knowing where he has been taken.

Breslin wakes upward inside the prison house and realizes that the warden, Hobbes, is not the aforementioned warden who was supposed to release him in an emergency. He befriends another inmate, Emil Rottmayer, who claims to be a security skilful for Victor Mannheim, a faceless Robin Hood-type figure who steals from the wealthy. In order to be intentionally subjected to lonely confinement, Breslin and Rottmayer stage a fight. Breslin rapidly learns the cell in question is intended to disorient and dehydrate prisoners with high-powered lights. Realizing the cell floors take rivets of steel instead of more secure aluminium, Breslin has Rottmayer acquire a metallic plate from Hobbes'due south office floor, before they and an inmate named Javed are again thrown into solitary.

Using the metal plate, Breslin focuses the reflection from the lights onto the steel rivets, heating them so that they loosen when the steel expands. Following a passageway below the floor, he discovers the prison is inside a massive cargo ship somewhere in the middle of an ocean. Breslin and Rottmayer continue to study the circuitous and learn the guards' routines. However, Hobbes then reveals to Breslin that he is aware of his true identity, has assigned his head of security Drake to monitor him at all times, and will ensure Breslin spends the rest of his life in the prison. Breslin offers Hobbes information on Mannheim from Rottmayer in exchange for his release; Hobbes agrees.

While Breslin feeds Hobbes false information about Mannheim, his colleagues, Abigail Ross and Hush, grow suspicious of Clark when Breslin'due south paycheck for the task is frozen. Hush discovers that the prison, codenamed "The Tomb," is owned by a for-profit organization linked to a notorious private security contractor. Clark is as well revealed to exist in contact with Hobbes nigh Breslin's imprisonment.

Rottmayer has Javed convince Hobbes that he is double-crossing them, and Javed is rewarded by being allowed to go above deck for his nightly prayer; this allows him to use a makeshift sextant to decide the ship's breadth. From this, Breslin and Rottmayer deduce they are somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean near Morocco. Breslin convinces the prison physician, Dr. Kyrie (who is also a prisoner), to help him and Rottmayer escape by sending an email to Mannheim, and transmits a false tap code message from his cell, convincing Hobbes that a riot volition occur in Prison cell Block C. All the same, Javed instigates another riot at Cell Cake A, assuasive him, Breslin, and Rottmayer to run toward the elevation deck while a lockdown is initiated. Breslin kills Drake when he tries to cease them, simply Javed is gunned downwardly by Hobbes and his men. Breslin goes to the engine room to close down the Tomb's electrical grid, giving Rottmayer time to open up the deck hatch while a helicopter sent by Mannheim engages in a gunfight with the guards. Rottmayer boards the helicopter while Breslin is flushed to the bottom of the ship past the automatic water system after Hobbes reboots the grid. Reaching the helicopter every bit Hobbes fires at him, Breslin shoots several leaking oil barrels, killing Hobbes in the explosion.

The helicopter lands on a Moroccan embankment, where Rottmayer reveals he is actually Mannheim and "Jessica Miller" is in fact his girl, who actually hired Breslin to mastermind her father's escape. Later, Ross informs Breslin that they discovered Clark was offered a $5 one thousand thousand bacon to become CEO of the Tomb's security company, should Breslin'due south imprisonment testify the ship was escape-proof. Hush explains that he tracked Clark to Miami and locked him in a machine, which is in turn placed within a shipping container bound for an unknown destination.

Cast [edit]

Sylvester Stallone as Ray Breslin / Anthony Portos, a sometime prosecutor, businessman and skilled structural engineer who is best known for beingness the earth's all-time escape artist.
Arnold Schwarzenegger equally Emil Rottmayer / Victor Ten. Mannheim, an inmate who befriends Ray.
Jim Caviezel as Warden Hobbes, the malicious owner of the Tomb prison facility.
Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson as "Hush", Ray's best friend who is working as his ain technical expert.
Sam Neill every bit Dr. Kyrie, the physician of the Tomb prison house facility.
Vinnie Jones as Drake, Hobbes' sadistic and violent personal assistant and bodyguard besides as the leader of the Tomb prison facility's security array.
Faran Tahir as Javed Afridi, a Muslim criminal and an inmate of the Tomb who allies with Breslin and Mannheim.
Vincent D'Onofrio as Lester Clark, Ray'southward business partner who arranges the various escape jobs, subsequently revealed to accept betrayed Ray all along.
Amy Ryan equally Abigail Ross, a senior member of Breslin-Clark and another friend of Ray.
Graham Beckel equally Brims
Matt Gerald as Roag
Caitriona Balfe equally Jessica Miller, a CIA operative who hires Breslin. She is after revealed to be Mannheim's daughter who helped her male parent and Breslin.
Lydia Hull as Jules, a receptionist

Production [edit]

The spec script was initially called The Tomb. When Summit first purchased the script, Jeff Wadlow was attached to directly and Jason Keller was hired to do rewrites.^[viii]

Early reports in 2010 speculated that Bruce Willis was bandage as Ray Breslin and Antoine Fuqua was attached to directly.^[ix] ^[10] ^[xi] It was revealed by producer Mark Canton on The Matthew Aaron Evidence that Jim Caviezel had signed on to the film, playing the prison warden Hobbes.^[12]

British actor Vinnie Jones signed on to co-star every bit Drake, the ruthless prison guard.^[13]

Variety and other media in the news stated that Amy Ryan, Vincent D'Onofrio, and l Cent had joined the bandage of Escape Program.^[14] ^[15] It was confirmed in mid-April that l Cent would play the estimator adept who was one time incarcerated for cyber crimes helping Breslin's character escape, D'Onofrio would play the deputy director of the loftier-tech prison, and Ryan would play Stallone'due south business partner and his potential love interest.^[sixteen]

In an interview with the British newspaper The Sun, Vinnie Jones stated that the film was to shoot April 16 to June 23 in New Orleans.^[17] Shooting for Escape Plan was too confirmed to accept place in Louisiana in the spring of 2012. In August 2012, at The Expendables ii conference, Arnold Schwarzenegger commented on the picture and stated that filming had finished.^[18] The engine room fight scene between Breslin and Drake was filmed onboard the bulk carrier RICAN, the giveaway is IMO NO 7621932 seen in several scenes.

Release [edit]

On Apr 9, 2013, it was officially appear that the flick had been pushed dorsum to a September xiii, 2013 release and the flick'southward title had been changed from The Tomb to Escape Plan.^[19] On July eighteen, 2013, a fan screening was held at the Reading Cinemas Gaslamp 15 at San Diego Comic-Con, which Stallone and Schwarzenegger attended.^[xx] The film was theatrically released in the United states of america on October eighteen, 2013.

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

The motion-picture show underperformed at the U.S. box office, debuting at number four on the box office chart with $9.89 million from 2,883 theaters and ultimately grossing only $25.one one thousand thousand domestically. Nonetheless, Escape Programme was an international box-part success, debuting at first place in several Asian and European markets, with the total international gross more than doubling its $50 million budget at $112.2 meg, totaling upwardly to a worldwide gross of $137.3 million.^[one]

Critical response [edit]

Escape Plan was met with mixed reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the picture a rating of l%, based on reviews from 107 critics, with an average score of 5.4/10. The site'due south critical consensus states: "As much fun as it is to see Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger squad upwardly onscreen, Escape Plan fails to offer much more than than a pale simulated of 1980s popcorn thrills."^[21] Metacritic gives the movie a score of 49 out of 100, based on 33 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[22] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B+".^[23]

Tom Huddleston of Fourth dimension Out London gave the film two out of 5 stars, commenting that the film "would have fabricated a perfect vehicle for, say, a Chuck Norris or even a Jean-Claude Van Damme. But these 2 redoubtable, enormously watchable quondam-schoolhouse heroes deserve meliorate."^[24] Ben Rawson-Jones of Digital Spy gave the film four out of five stars, commenting that it "defies those who wrote off the abilities of its stars to cut the muscular mustard in today'due south youth-orientated cultural climate. These supposedly one-time dogs accept plenty of life—but their effectiveness relies on the foundation of a smart script that plays to their strengths and the audience'southward perception of their star personas."^[25] Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times said in his review: "Mikael Håfstrom, the managing director, pushes the suspense buttons efficiently, and the plot twists are disguised well plenty for the non-very-demanding crowd this film will draw. The scenes with Mr. Stallone and Mr. Schwarzenegger are a little disappointing — it's their first pairing as summit-billed co-stars, even so the script never gives them the kind of memorable exchange that makes fans howl with delight. But all in all, Escape Plan does what it sets out to do."^[26]

Sequels [edit]

In February 2017, information technology was announced that a sequel was then in development with Stallone confirmed to reprise his role as Ray Breslin. In the same report information technology was revealed that Steven C. Miller would direct the moving-picture show, with Miles Chapman returning as screenwriter.^[27] Dave Bautista, 50 Cent, and Jaime King were cast in the picture.^[28] In March 2017, the official title was announced as Escape Plan two: Hades. The moving picture was released direct-to-video on June 29, 2018.

In April 2017, a third film entered the early on stages of development with Stallone over again signed on to reprise his function equally Ray Breslin.^[29] The film, Escape Plan: The Extractors, ^[30] was released straight-to-video on July 2, 2019.

Come across as well [edit]

List of American films of 2013
Arnold Schwarzenegger filmography
Sylvester Stallone filmography
Lock Upward, another Sylvester Stallone movie set in a prison

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