Dave McNary Film ReporterLionsgate has dropped out of distributing the Gerard Butler action movie “The Plane” because producers were unable to obtain production insurance that would cover a COVID-19 outbreak, Variety has confirmed.Lionsgate boarded “The Plane” a year ago at the American Film Market, announcing that it had bought the rights to the film for North America, Latin America, the U.K.
and India.Butler will portray a commercial pilot who, after a heroic job of successfully landing his storm-damaged aircraft in a war zone, finds himself caught between the agendas of multiple militias who are planning to take the plane and its passengers hostage.
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