London Has Fallen is getting a sequel, another thing is going to fall
Gerard Butler will return as Secret Service agent Mike Banning for a sequel to this year's London Has Fallen
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Your support makes all the difference.Gerard Butler's Secret Service agent Mike Banning is maybe the unluckiest Secret Service agent around; charged with keeping safe the American president in a universe where terrorist assassination runs as common as running out of milk in the White House fridge.
Now that Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen; it looks as if Banning has yet to consider a quiet retirement, with sequel Angel Has Fallen now in the works (via Deadline).
Butler will indeed return as Banning, who himself is now the target; with attackers attempting to destroy all of Washington D.C. in the process and put in risk the President, whose official plane Air Force One is code-named Angel.
Franchise creators Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt will return to pen the script, though no director has been attached to the project; there's also no word on whether Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman will return in their respective roles as President Benjamin Asher and Vice President Allan Trumbull.
Olympus Has Fallen may have taken in $161 million worldwide, with London Has Fallen landing a huge $205 million worldwide, but the franchise will have a hard time playing down the controversy surrounding the last film; having been widely accused of serving as a racist "terrorsploitation” fantasy designed to spread fear after the Paris attacks.
Production is set to start on Angel Has Fallen in the first half of 2017.
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