London Has Fallen is an upcoming 2016 American action thriller film directed by Babak Najafi and written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, Chad St. John, and Christian Gudegast. It is a sequel to Antoine Fuqua's 2013 film Olympus Has Fallen and stars Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman, with Alon Moni Aboutboul, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Melissa Leo, and Radha Mitchell in supporting roles.
Filming began on October 24, 2014, in London, a Christmas break started in November with filming resuming in February 2015. London Has Fallen is set to be released on March 4, 2016 by Focus Features under their recently revived Gramercy Pictures label.
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In London, the British Prime Minister
has died under mysterious circumstances and his funeral is a
must-attend event for leaders of the Western world. What starts out as
the most protected event on Earth turns into a deadly plot to kill the
world's most powerful leaders and unleash a terrifying vision of the
future. The only hope of stopping it rests on the shoulders of the U.S. President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart), his formidable US Secret Service lead agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), Vice President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman), and a British MI6 agent (Charlotte Riley) who rightly trusts no one.[
Filming began on October 24, 2014, in London, a Christmas break started in November with filming resuming in February 2015. London Has Fallen is set to be released on March 4, 2016 by Focus Features under their recently revived Gramercy Pictures label.
Official web site
Plot
In London, the British Prime Minister
has died under mysterious circumstances and his funeral is a
must-attend event for leaders of the Western world. What starts out as
the most protected event on Earth turns into a deadly plot to kill the
world's most powerful leaders and unleash a terrifying vision of the
future. The only hope of stopping it rests on the shoulders of the U.S. President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart), his formidable US Secret Service lead agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), Vice President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman), and a British MI6 agent (Charlotte Riley) who rightly trusts no one.[Cast
- Gerard Butler as Mike Banning, a Secret Service agent and Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protection Division.[6]
- Aaron Eckhart as Benjamin Asher, the President of the United States.[6]
- Morgan Freeman as Allan Trumbull, the former Speaker of the House who was sworn in as the Vice President of the United States following the death of Charlie Rodriguez.[7]
- Alon Moni Aboutboul as Aamir Barkawi, a terrorist mastermind who is #6 on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.[8]
- Angela Bassett as Lynne Jacobs, the Director of the United States Secret Service[6]
- Robert Forster as US Army General Edward Clegg[8]
- Melissa Leo as Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan[9]
- Radha Mitchell as Leah Banning, Mike's wife and a nurse[6]
- Charlotte Riley as the British MI6 agent[10]
- Jackie Earle Haley as Chief of Staff Mason[11]
- Sean O'Bryan as Ray Monroe, the Deputy Director of the National Security Agency[8]
- Mehdi Dehbi as Sultan Mansoor, the youngest of three brothers whose life has been forever changed after a drone strike.[12]
- Waleed Zuaiter as Kamran, Barkawi's henchman[8
