Gerard Butlers latest action thriller Last Seen Alive has landed on Netflix where its been getting an interesting reception. While many Netflix subscribers have simply enjoyed Butler kicking butt and taking names like he has in other projects such as Olympus Has Fallen and 300 a lot of them are scratching their heads over the movie.
Theres a persistent idea that Last Seen Alive is a remake of another movie simply re and re packaged with Gerard in the lead. Its certainly a tried and true template with the actor playing another lone wolf hero out for justice at any cost. But is Last Seen Alive actually a remake? Is it based on a true story?
Heres the truth behind the rumor and an explanation of how the discussion got started in the first place. Last Seen Alive directed by Brian Goodman and written by Marc Frydman is not officially a remake. However its being confused for one because of how closely it resembles the 1993 psychological thriller The Vanishing, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Jeff Bridges Nancy Travis and Sandra Bullock.
In Last Seen Alive Will Spann played by Gerard goes on an obsessive hunt for his wife Lisa played by Jaimie Alexander after she goes missing at a gas station. In The Vanishing, Jeff Harriman Kiefer goes on an obsessive hunt for his girlfriend Diane Shaver Sandra after she goes missing at a gas station.Aside from the similar premises both movies focus on the hero becoming more and more unhinged as he searches and both have similar endings.
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