Hollywood star Gerard Butler is currently in the negotiation phase to take the lead in Empire State, an adrenaline-pumping action film centered on an audacious attack on the Empire State Building in New York City.

Gerard Butler has almost single-handedly proved that there is still a huge interest in classic one-man army movies where a lone hero takes on huge numbers of enemies (and often some government conspiracy to boot), and triumphs.

Gerard Butler is in talks to star in Empire State, a new action thriller movie from Den of Thieves’ Christian Gudegast. Per Deadline, Butler is being eyed for the lead role in Empire State, a new movie helmed by Gudegast that’s headed to the Cannes Film Market later this month.

After performing epically in quite a few romantic comedies until 2010 and winning the hearts of fangirls worldwide, Gerard Butler seems to have switched lanes permanently into the action genre. Well,