Three buildings, several movies

Published by Kostas Stergiou on

Kuala Lumpur

There are several tall buildings in the modern capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. However, three are among the most iconic ones:

  • Merdeka 118 (2023, 678.9 m)
  • Petronas Twin Towers (1998, 451.9 m)
  • Kuala Lumpur Tower (1996, 412 m).

 

 

 

 

Merdeka 118 is the newest building. It opened in 2023. Thus, naturally did not had the opportunity to appear in any movie so far.

However, the other two buildings do make appearances in various movies.

Petronas Twin Towers

 

 

As soon as Petronas Twin Towers were opened to the public they made their appearance, in the classic adventure Entrapment (1999, directed by Jon Amiel).

The movie has an excellent cast: the protagonists Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Will Patton, Ving Rhames and Maury Chaykin. 

 

 

 

The Kuala Lumpur Tower

The Kuala Lumpur Tower appears in the opening scene (at 1:48 minutes) of the classic action spy film Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nations (2015, directed by Christopher McQuarrie), the fifth movie of the Mission: Impossible film series.

The cast is superb: Tom Cruise is the main protagonist. The remaining cast includes Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris and Alec Baldwin. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Kostas Stergiou

Kostas Stergiou is a Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was the former Director of the Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters of HCMR (2013-2021).He has research interests on fish and fisheries ecology, modeling and forecasting, ecosystem management, and bibliometrics. He has contributed more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and several other publications (see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=k8hb4pIAAAAJ).Since 2008 and 2015 he developed the home cinema and smart home hobbies and has installed different home cinema setups in two different houses which have lately been transformed to smart ones.

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