Universal has released a new Skyscraper trailer for the upcoming actioner. The film is based on an original idea by writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber and stars Dwayne Johnson as a former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader who now assesses security for skyscrapers. While assessing the tallest building in the world in China, the thing goes up in flames and he’s being framed for the crime. In a race against time, Johnson must save his family and clear his name.
This is the third official trailer for the film, so this is an extra marketing push a couple weeks out from release. The trailer opens with an extended action sequence in which Johnson jumps out a window, leaps through a fan that’s on fire, and then nearly falls off. There’s clearly a lot of action that’s oriented around the titular skyscraper.
Skyscraper is Dwayne Johnson’s second big release of 2018, the other one being the high-octane action adventure Rampage, a movie based on a video game. The actor is also coming off the widely successful Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which will be getting a sequel in 2019. In addition to those projects, Johnson also has Disney’s Jungle Cruise, the Hobbs and Shaw Fast and Furious spinoff and a Black Adam-oriented movie in the works. All in all, over the next few years, we should all be smelling what The Rock is cooking.
Skyscraper officially hits theaters on July 13 and also stars Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Noah Taylor, Roland Møller, Byron Mann, Pablo Schreiber, and Hannah Quinlivan.
