April 4, 2018 (Microsoft Theater)
April 13, 2018 (United States)
Rampage is a 2018 American science fiction monster film directed by Brad Peyton and written by Ryan Engle, Carlton Cuse, Ryan J. Condal, and Adam Sztykiel, loosely based on the video game series. The film stars Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jake Lacy, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. In the film, a primatologist and his leucistic gorilla friend, George, team-up to stop a pair of other animals that, along with George, have been mutated into raging beasts with fluctuating enhancements thanks to a gene-manipulating pathogen.
The film is the third collaboration between Peyton and Johnson, following Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) and San Andreas (2015).
Principal photography began in April 2017 in Chicago. The film was released in the United States on April 13, 2018, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $428 million on a $120–140 million budget.
Storyline
Athena-1, a space station owned by nefarious gene-manipulation company Energyne, is destroyed after a laboratory rat mutates and wreaks havoc. Kerry Atkins, the lone surviving crew member, manages to escape in the escape pod when the station implodes, along with a trio of pathogen canisters that Energyne CEO Claire Wyden ordered her to retrieve, but the pod disintegrates upon re-entry, killing Atkins. One canister is swallowed by an American crocodile in the Everglades, and another lands in a Wyoming forest where a wolf is exposed to the pathogen.
Primatologist Davis Okoye, a former Special Forces soldier and member of an anti-poaching unit, works at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. He is friends with a rare leucistic western lowland gorilla named George that he saved from poachers who murdered his mother and communicates with him via sign language. The third Energyne canister crash-lands in George's habitat, and he is exposed to the pathogen.
As George grows considerably larger and becomes more aggressive, Davis is contacted by genetic engineer Doctor Kate Caldwell, who explains that the pathogen was developed by Energyne to rewrite genes on a massive scale. She had hoped to advance research on CRISPR as a potential cure for diseases, but discovered Energyne's plans to use it as a biological weapon and was falsely incarcerated, during which her terminally ill brother died. George escapes from captivity and runs amok at the preserve. George calms down, but is soon captured by a government team led by Agent Harvey Russell and put on a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III airplane. Meanwhile, Claire and her brother Brett oversee a mercenary team's attempt to capture the mutated wolf, Ralph, which goes awry as the entire team is killed.
Claire, resolving to capture Ralph and use George to cover up her plot, uses a massive transmitter atop the Willis Tower to lure the animals – engineered to respond aggressively to a certain radio frequency – to Chicago, unconcerned about the massive risk to civilian lives this poses. George reacts violently to the sound and crashes the plane, though Davis, Kate and Russell parachute to safety. George survives the crash and joins Ralph as they make their way to Chicago, while Davis and Kate are aided by Russell in stealing a UH-60 Black Hawk military helicopter in pursuit.
They arrive to find George and Ralph tearing through the city as the military struggles to stop them. The crisis worsens when the mutated crocodile, Lizzie, joins the duo. Planning to steal an antidote to turn the animals back to normal, Davis and Kate infiltrate Energyne's base of operations at the tower and take several vials of it, but are caught by the Wydens as Claire reveals that the antidote only eliminates the animals' enhanced aggressiveness rather than reversing the pathogen's effects altogether and shoots Davis, but he survives. When George climbs to the top of the tower, Claire orders Davis to distract him while she attempts to escape with Kate at gunpoint. Kate slips a vial into Claire's handbag and pushes her toward George, who swallows her whole along with the vial, returning him to his former personality. Down below, Russell takes incriminating evidence from Brett and allows him to escape, only for Brett to be crushed to death by falling debris upon exiting the building. As the damaged tower topples, Davis and Kate survive by crash-landing a helicopter on the Federal Plaza.
Davis stays to help George defeat the other animals, while Kate and Russell rush to prevent the military from deploying a GBU-43/B MOAB against them. As George battles Ralph and Lizzie, Davis tricks Ralph into advancing towards Lizzie, who kills Ralph by biting off his head. Lizzie overpowers George, but Davis use grenades and the machine gun and missiles of a downed AH-64 Apache helicopter on her in an attempt to injure her, which leaves her unscathed. Lizzie destroys the helicopter and corners Davis, but is stabbed in the eye by George with a rebar that nearly impaled him, killing her. With the threat neutralized, the airstrike is aborted, as Davis is joined by his allies to help rescue civilians.
Movie Trailer
- Rampage (2018) (Trailers)
Sound Effects Used
- Hollywoodedge, Bullet Impact Sweete PE115201
- Hollywoodedge, Lion Roar Snarl Growl AT013601
- Hollywoodedge, Object Being Squashe PE105201
- Hollywoodedge, Warning Buzzer Space PE194501
- Jurassic Park, T-Rex - Attack Roar (One of the variants heard in The Lost World: Jurassic Park is used twice for Lizzie.)
- SKYWALKER, ROAR - CARNOTAURUS ROAR (Used for Lizzie.)
- SoundDogs, Animals, Wild, Elephants - Elephant Roar
- SoundDogs, Monsters, Gorilla - Roar Combine Long Single Gorilla Vocal (Used for George)
- Sound Ideas, ANIMAL, SCREAM - INTENSE, STRAINED, COMPLEX SCREAM: BATTLING DINOSAUR 01 (Heard twice in low pitched)
- Sound Ideas, ANIMAL, SCREAM - INTENSE, STRAINED, COMPLEX SCREAM: BATTLING DINOSAUR 04 (low pitched)
- Sound Ideas, Gorilla Roars and Breaths 02 - Series of gorilla snarls, breaths and roars (the 2nd roar is used twice for George during the plane attack scene.)
- Sound Ideas, WATER, SPLASH - ROCK THROWN IN WATER, BIG SPLASH, DIGIFFECTS