Mike Colter to lead Plane sequel, titled Ship

Mike Colter in Plane
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Mike Colterā€™s all-action former French Legionnaire will return for what must have been the easiest film to name, ever. Plane 2 is officially: Ship. Contains a mild spoiler for Plane. Plane is still playing in cinemas at the moment and is scoring all-round favourable reviews. Gerard Butler leads the film as the stoutly-named Captain Brodie Torrance, and heā€™s ably supported by Mike Colter, who brings no shortage of presence to the screen himself. Despite its laughably literal title, Plane comes loaded with a generous dollop of sincerity, for a fairly run-of-the-mill action flick at least. And yes, thereā€™s plenty of fun shooty-shooty stuff too. (You can catch our review here, if you havenā€™t already.) Audiences have responded positively to the film and thus, a sequel has been announced before Plane has even left cinemas. In what must have been the easiest brainstorming session ever, the sequel has been titled Ship.  Colterā€™s character, Louis Gaspare has been announced as the lead character in the sequel. For those of you worrying that this all sounds a little too much like the downfall of Speed 2: Cruise Control, another literal-titled action sequel that gave its secondary star top-billing whilst moving the action to sea, fear not. Unlike Speed 2: Cruise Control (and with the greatest respect to Sandra Bullock who is the best part of that film), as a former French Legionnaire and accused murderer, Gaspare seems like a natural narrative choice to go with here. Thereā€™s plenty of conflict left in his story left to work with, not to mention that his story arc in Plane is left somewhat unresolved. Plus, itā€™s Mike Colter whose unflappable cool always makes him very watchable indeed. In this sequel, ā€˜Gaspare hops onboard a cargo ship in East Asia to escape the Philippines. He soon discovers the vessel is being used as a ferry for a human trafficking ring and he ends up teaming up with the second mate/navigator to take down the ship’s corrupt captain and keeping its innocent passengers safe whilst trying to liberate its captives.ā€™ The same production companies who worked on Plane are involved, and original director Jean-François Richet will return as an executive producer. The film is expected to shoot later this year with a late 2024/early 2025 release date likely. Weā€™ll let you know more, including who will be directing the project as we hear it. The Hollywood Reporter ā€” Thank you for visiting! If youā€™d like to support our attempts to make a non-clickbaity movie website: Follow Film Stories on Twitter here, and on Facebook here. Buy our Film Stories and Film Junior print magazines here. Become a Patron here.
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