![]() That height differential alone is larger than New York's Met Life Tower, which was at one time the tallest building in the world. In the movie, The Pearl is 3,500 feet, which would make it the tallest building in the world by a whopping 783 feet over the actual world's tallest building, the 2,717-foot Burj Khalifa in Dubai. There's also an Olympic-sized swimming pool, gyms, basketball courts, a driving range, a movie theater, and a six-story shopping mall - in addition to luxury apartments and hotels. Adding to its greenness is a giant, 30-story botanical garden located on the 100th floor. Between floors 200 and 230 is a giant wind turbine located within the building, generating its own power and allowing The Pearl to run on green energy. Rising 240 stories above Hong Kong, the building features a spherical glass observation deck at the top - that's where the name The Pearl comes from. ![]() The film's marketing department has gone all out to convince fans it is, though, including creating a viral marketing website touting the building's unique features. But you don't have to worry about that, because The Pearl from Skyscraper is not a real building. Things of course don't go according to plan, and that may give you pause about visiting The Pearl in real life. His newest assignment is The Pearl, the world's tallest and most advanced building, located in Hong Kong. In it, Johnson stars as a war veteran and former FBI hostage rescuer who now assesses security for skyscrapers. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is looking to continue his stellar year at the box office with Skyscraper, an old school action movie meant as an homage to classics of the genre like Die Hard and The Towering Inferno.
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