London Has Fallen(Olympus Has Fallen Sequel)

[blu-mike]

There are (many) movies that, when you see them, or even just hear about them, you figure, "they want to franchise that." Then, there are movies that seem pretty clearly to be "onesies." Of course, such guesses can eventually be proven very wrong (for example, John Carter in the first case, and The Godfather in the second). When our year of White House invasion movies started with Olympus Has Fallen, this writer thought it was probably just a one time story. This writer was wrong. Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett and Radha Mitchell will reprise their roles in the sequel London Has Fallen. This time, the President of the United States (Eckhart) travels to London for the funeral of a prime minister, where he teams up with the head of the Secret Service (Butler) and an MI6 agent (to be cast) to fight the latest wave of evil terrorists. The scenario is ridiculous (you think?) but it does raise the question of whether world leaders would decline visits from the POTUS, or welcome him, in the hopes that while he's there, he can fight off their local villains. Filming of London Has Fallen will start in London on May 5, 2014. The screenwriters of Olympus Has Fallen (Katrin Benedikt and Creighton Rothenberger) are currently working on London Has Fallen (and also worked together on the upcoming The Expendables 3). Worldwide, Olympus Has Fallen has earned a box office total of $160 million from a filming budget of $70 million, and a RT Tomatometer "Rotten" score of 48%.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/olym...gets_a_sequel/

[Tony208]

I'll see it

[Petra_Kalbrain]

A thread already exists. I knew about this around a week ago from this forum.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...don+has+fallen

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[WhySoCereal]

I'll definitely see this. The first film was a highlight of the year for me.

[EricJ]

That's strange, studios usually move the sequel location to Paris, for the traditional "Extended foreign-market sequel"...
Sheesh, even Smurfs 2 did it.