Michael Imperioli, Danny Huston, Paul Ben-Victor, and Evan Handler have joined the cast of Gerard Butler's action-thriller Empire City, which has wrapped in Australia. The film follows a hostage crisis at New York's Clybourn Building, where former Navy SEAL turned firefighter Rhett (Butler), his squad, and his NYPD wife Dani (Hayley Atwell) must rescue the captives. Other cast members include Omari Hardwick as the villain. The movie is directed by Michael Matthews and written by Brian Tucker and S. Craig Zahler.