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Dwayne Johnson Stars in First SAN ANDREAS Trailer
Warner Bros. Pictures has released the brand new trailer for next summer’s disaster-suspense film SAN ANDREAS.
The film stars Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Ioan Gruffudd, Archie Panjabi, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Art Parkinson and Paul Giamatti.
Shot on location in The Gold Coast and Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and in Los Angeles and San Francisco, SAN ANDREAS is slated to open in theatres in both 3D and 2D format on Friday, May 29, 2015.
This isn’t the first film where Southern California has been destroyed on the silver screen. SAN FRANCISCO (1936) is based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Directed by Woody Van Dyke, the drama stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy.
AIRPORT originated the 1970s disaster film genre and audiences were deluged with a series of movies including the original EARTHQUAKE (1974). These films always included a huge cast, where many of the actors usually perished by the climax.
Featuring a star-studded cast including Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Roundtree, Marjoe Gortner, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Victoria Principal, and Walter Matthau, EARTHQUAKE was released by Universal Pictures on November 15, 1974.
Budgeted at $7,000,000, EARTHQUAKE found itself in a race against the clock with the bigger-budgeted disaster film, THE TOWERING INFERNO, which was being financed by two studios (20th Century Fox and Warner Bros., a motion picture first) and produced by Irwin Allen (THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE).
It is was also known for the collapse of Mulholland Dam – and the subsequent deluge – at the end of the movie, and a sound effect called Sensurround which created the sense of actually experiencing an earthquake in theatres.
In SAN ANDREAS:
After the infamous San Andreas Fault finally gives, triggering a magnitude 9 earthquake in California, a search and rescue helicopter pilot (Dwayne Johnson) and his estranged wife make their way together from Los Angeles to San Francisco to save their only daughter.
But their treacherous journey north is only the beginning. And when they think the worst may be over…it’s just getting started.
This latest action thriller reunites Dwayne Johnson with director Brad Peyton and producer Beau Flynn, following their collaboration on JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND.
SAN ANDREAS is produced by Beau Flynn (“Hercules,” “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island”). Tripp Vinson (“Red Dawn”) also serves as producer. Richard Brener, Samuel J. Brown, Michael Disco, Rob Cowan, and Bruce Berman are the executive producers, and Hiram Garcia is co-producer. The screenplay is by Carlton Cuse, story by Andre Fabrizio & Jeremy Passmore.
The creative filmmaking team includes director of photography Steve Yedlin (“Looper”), production designer Barry Chusid (“The Day After Tomorrow”), editor Bob Ducsay (upcoming “Godzilla”), VFX producer Randall Starr (upcoming “Into the Storm”), VFX supervisor Colin Strause (“The Avengers”), and costume designer Wendy Chuck (“Twilight”).
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