First Stills From Indie Thriller ‘Empire State’

Whilst both Liam Hemsworth and Dwayne Johnson have seen their acting careers rise significantly over the last year with big-budget efforts THE HUNGER GAMES and FAST & FURIOUS 5 respectively, their first collaboration together will be the small indie thriller EMPIRE STATE. The film will portray real-life events of a robbery of an armoured car company by two best friends, during the 1980s.
Johnson has coincidentally just completed work a similar feature, Michael Bay’s PAIN OR GAIN, another fact-based heist-gone-wrong story from the ’80s. However, this time he’ll be playing a cop on the trail of the duo as opposed to a body-building crook, he will portray in Bay’s passion project.
EMPIRE STATE is being directed by Dito Montiel, whose last effort was the disappointing thriller THE SON OF NO ONE starring Channing Tatum, Al Pacino and Ray Liotta. The film will also star Emma Roberts, Jerry Ferrara, Michael Angarano, Nikki Reed and Chris Diamantopoulos.  Below we have the first stills from the film set for release next summer