{"id":29490,"date":"2021-02-15T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=29490"},"modified":"2021-02-16T08:17:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T08:17:33","slug":"want-to-produce-films-to-have-some-control-says-gerard-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=29490","title":{"rendered":"Want to produce films to have some control, says Gerard Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hollywood star Gerard Butler says he enjoyed serving as a producer on the disaster action film &#8220;Greenland&#8221; as the stint allowed him to have control in shaping the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Butler also starred in the Ric Roman Waugh directorial alongside &#8220;Deadpool&#8221; star Morena Baccarin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Greenland&#8221;, which released last year, follows a family&#8217;s fight for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster. As the countdown to global apocalypse approaches zero, the family&#8217;s trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though he is known for big-budget studio tentpoles like &#8220;Gods of Egypt&#8221; and &#8220;Geostorm&#8221;, Butler said he would like to further lend support to independent films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a control freak! As an actor, when you&#8217;re coming up, you beg for roles, and you&#8217;re lucky to get one and then you suddenly find yourself in a position where movies are being made, because you&#8217;re involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So if that&#8217;s the case, you say, &#8216;I want to produce it, I want to have some control, I want to help shape this film.&#8217; Not the studio movies, like &#8216;Gods of Egypt&#8217; or &#8216;Geostorm&#8217;. But all the other ones, in the independent world,&#8221; Butler told Total Film magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris Sparling has penned the script for &#8220;Greenland&#8221;, produced by Thunder Road Films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I get a chance to develop, be involved with script, choose the director. It&#8217;s more responsibility, but you&#8217;re more involved in the process. And I love that,&#8221; Butler added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Greenland&#8221;, which hails from STX Films, was among the handful of movies that released in the US theatres after the coronavirus-forced shutdown ended.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood star Gerard Butler says he enjoyed serving as a producer on the disaster action film &#8220;Greenland&#8221; as the stint allowed him to have control in shaping the film. Butler also starred in the Ric Roman Waugh directorial alongside &#8220;Deadpool&#8221; star Morena Baccarin. &#8220;Greenland&#8221;, which released last year, follows a family&#8217;s fight for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster. As the countdown to global apocalypse approaches zero, the family&#8217;s trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven. Though he is known for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29492,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29490\/revisions\/29492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}