Like the filmmaking equivalent of Buckaroo, Gerard Butler is apparently cramming as many acting jobs on to his schedule as he possibly can. He’s already got a few likely gigs stewing away, but is now in talks to star in yet another film, with director Breck Eisner courting him for Manhunt.
The thriller, written by Iron Man team Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, sees an FBI team scouring the North Carolina wilderness in search of one James Tollan, a domestic terrorist with a handy line in survivalist technique and no qualms about killing anyone who gets in his way.
Though the FBI bods recruit a local bear hunter to reluctantly help with the search, Tollan soon gets the better of them, turning the quest into a cat-and-mouse game of survival.
Deadline doesn’t make it clear whether Butler is lining up to play Tollan or the bear hunter, but either part sounds like something he could pull off. If we had to guess, we'd say that he already kinda did the terrorist thing (sort of) in Law Abiding Citizen, and we'd note that the words "bear hunter" and "Gerard Butler" just seem profoundly right together.
Since Eisner isn’t set to begin shooting until the end of the year, there’s time for the actor to squeeze in a couple of the other roles he’s been flirting with, i_ncluding Albert Hughes' **Motor City,_ diamond heist pic Brilliant, sci-fi thriller Afterburn and White House under siege thriller Olympus Has Fallen. Watch this space to see which ones he ends up doing.