Gerard Butler has actually come into his personal this previous decade as an motion star whose films are cannot miss thrillers that ship every thing they promise. Even when a variety of them do not essentially resonate with critics, followers cannot get sufficient of seeing the Scottish actor take down the unhealthy guys and save the day. Living proof: the 2022 motion thriller Final Seen Alive, which racked up an enormous 747 million minutes considered on Netflix throughout its first month on the streaming service three years in the past. Now, you solely have a short while left to see it, because it’s set to go away Netflix very quickly.
Starring Butler as Will Spann, Final Seen Alive focuses on a person whose spouse out of the blue vanishes at a fuel station, and his determined search to search out her. Happening a darkish path that forces him to run from the authorities and take the regulation into his personal fingers, he’ll cease at nothing to get again the love of his life, even when it means killing these in his means. Positive, it is your typical revenge fantasy plot that a variety of followers evaluate to Liam Neeson’s Taken, however with Butler within the lead, he elevates the film past shlock cinema, delivering a memorable and emotional efficiency alongside the best way.
Directed by Brian Goodman (What Would not Kill You) and written by Marc Frydman, Final Seen Alive wasn’t precisely a field workplace sensation when it was launched on June 3, 2022. Distributed by Voltage Photos, it acquired a really restricted theatrical run, and as such, earned simply $5.9 million. Hitting VOD a short while later, the movie finally made its solution to Netflix on Oct. 2022, the place it shortly grew to become the #1 film in america and different territories. Sadly, the film is ready to depart the streaming service on the finish of the month per What’s on Netflix, so subscribers higher hurry to see Butler do what he does finest.
What’s Subsequent for Gerard Butler?
Following a giant 2025 that noticed the discharge of such movies as Den of Thieves 2: Pantera and the live-action remake of How you can Prepare Your Dragon, Butler exhibits no indicators of slowing down anytime quickly. The 55-year-old has a minimum of 4 films on the go proper now, all of that are at present in numerous levels of improvement.
First up might be Greenland: Migration, a sequel to Butler’s 2020 post-apocalyptic survival thriller, Greenland. As soon as extra directed by Ric Roman Waugh and written by Chris Sparling, the movie will see the Garrity household depart the security of the Greenland bunker and embark on a deadly journey throughout the decimated wasteland of Europe to discover a new residence. At the moment in post-production, it is set to be launched on Jan. 9, 2026 by Lionsgate.
Butler can even be teaming up with O’Shea Jackson Jr. once more for an additional Den of Thieves film, which has formally been confirmed to be transferring ahead. The movie will see the 2 stars reprise their respective roles of Nicholas O’Brien and Donnie Wilson, and whereas it is but to be introduced if author/director Christian Gudegast can even come alongside for the journey, it is onerous to think about the collection with out him so we’re positive he’ll be concerned in some type or vogue.
As we await extra information on that one, you’ll want to take a look at Final Seen Alive earlier than it leaves Netflix on Oct. 1, 2025.
Final Seen Alive
- Launch Date
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Might 12, 2022
- Runtime
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95 minutes
- Director
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Brian Goodman
- Writers
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Marc Frydman