Trailer Watch: Gerard Butler in “Chasing Mavericks”
300 star Gerard Butler is back in ab-tastic form in the his new surfer flick, <>Chasing Mavericks, where he plays a California surfing legend Frosty Hesson (based on the real life surfing legend, Jay Moriarty . . . whose name sounds like a villain in a Sherlock Holmes novel, right?). The movie tells the tale of how Hesson helps a 15-year-old surfer named Jay to conquer one of the world’s biggest waves known as the Mavericks surfer break. Like all movies, this too shall show that doing something great is never easy.
Also co-starring are Elisabeth Shue, Abigail Spencer, Taylor Handley, Scott Eastwood and Leven Rambin. Chasing Mavericks opens October 26.