Gerard Butler Returning for 'London Has Fallen'

The plot synopsis says that Banning, the U.S. president, and a British MI6 agent will foil the plot. So there's some level playing field there, although I'm sure Gerard's Banning will bail everyone's butts out this time too.

I haven't read anything about a MI6 agent helping out.
 
Irony is a harsh mistress. :o
 
If anyone has noticed, there are many reasons why LONDON, or even England in general, is more common in big tentpoles these days.

1.) Variety other than LA, or New York..OR America. It shows how international we have grown in the past decade due to the internet. Which is something to celebrate about.

2.) TAX BREAKS GALORE!
 
Plus, London makes for some gorgeous cinematography. Skyfall showed that extremely well.
 
I really enjoyed Olympus Has Fallen, but c'mon. I don't think this is a good idea. But whatever, I'll watch it anyway :D .
 
If anyone has noticed, there are many reasons why LONDON, or even England in general, is more common in big tentpoles these days.

Tax breaks, London Olympics buzz, experienced film crews and studio facilities (Pinewood, Shepperton & Leavesden) I think are the main reasons.
 
I guess for Americans, and even any non-Europeans, London is a cool foreign metropolitan setting, but one where the American hero doesn't have to either have to miraculously know another language or have to coincidentally only run into people who speak perfect but accented English.
 
Most of the time when people say they want an original franchise they want something that won't feel convoluted as a franchise which this does. It's also not too original. It's Die Hard: Presidential Edition.

I have an idea for a game... You go first. :cwink: j/k

There's not really many original plots that haven't been covered before. And really Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Under Siege, Predator, etc where NOT organic franchise staring points, but they all gave us entertaining entries.
 
So, lets see.
Under Siege-Die Hard on a boat.
Under Siege 2-Die Hard on a train.
Air Force One-Die Hard on a plane.
Speed-Die Hard on a bus.
That one Van Damme movie-Die Hard in a Hockey Stadium.
Olympus Has Fallen-Die Hard in the White House.
London Has Fallen-Die Hard in the UK.

Did I miss anything?
 
Passenger 57 and that one with Anna Nicole Smith in the skyscraper.
 
It's just like Aliens and space marines. You make one movie that's popular and accidently spawn an entire subgenre of movies.

The reason I call it Die Hard though is it's essentially one man alone doing this against terrorists.

I was referring to the very specific circumstances of WHD compared to Die Hard. A single man going into a situation where he's alone in the heroics of saving everyone. No back up, only some communication with the outside (they even tell him not to do anything) and he manages to kill an entire building of terrorists single-handedly. There are more parallels but you should get the point.

Die Hard has stretched its own luck going into so many sequels (who thought the last two were good?). So to do a very specific iteration, secret service agent saves the day for world leaders over and over is going to be even harder to accept.

Under Siege and its sequel actually are rip offs of Die Hard.
Air Force One wasn't one man in the right place at the right time, it was the President, on his own plane. But you can see a similarity there if you remove the right time part and convolute a few other details.
Speed was Keanu getting onto the bus after it was hijacked/rigged, by one mad bomber, not a group of terrorists. Doesn't fit.
Van Damme movies are always Van Damme doing some Van Damme stuff, doesn't count.
 
The one man army is a staple of action entertainment. Movies do it , video games are pretty much known for it.
 
That it is but Die Hard much like Aliens with space marines (as opposed to regular marines), made the one man army against a building of terrorists popular. In Die Hard he was a normal guy. A cop but nothing impressive outside of that. Nothing he did was really extraordinary outside of that. It's grown since then of course and in WHDOHF the man was a secret service agent so he had some extra skills to complete the job but it still was a more paralleled take than anything Clint Eastwood or Charles Bronson ever did.

And I just realized I used WHD instead of OHF... ironically identical movies with the difference that WHD isn't the lone hero movie. :o
 
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James Cameron took alot of his ideas for Aliens from the Starship Troopers book which he originally wanted to make a movie of but didn't have the rights.

The terms "the drop" and "bug hunt", as well as the cargo-loader exoskeleton were all taken from Starship Troopers. The actors playing the Colonial Marines were also required to read Starship Troopers as part of their preparation prior to filming of Aliens.
 
I know, but prior to Cameron that wasn't a movie trope. I'm not saying Aliens or Die Hard are original but they are the ones who originated the popularity of their tropes. Before them there were either no real formulated concepts of they weren't well known.

48 Hours is another good example. It made the black man and white man buddy movie popular (or revitalized) then Lethal Weapon made the black man and white man buddy cop movie even more popular (in effect, a subgenre of a subgenre). There are plenty of prior examples to both but none of those were the hit they were and they didn't spawn imitations, clones and inspiration.
 
Saw this on a flight over the weekend. Butler was all kinds of awesome.

Favorite scene was the interrogation with the two captured terrorists.
 
You're spoiling the movie, time traveling poster from the future!

This is the sequel thread to Olympus Has Fallen.
 
RIP Focus Films. Since they ousted the former CEO, I'm not too sure what they're doing with it.
 
Not sure if this can work. I liked Taken, but Taken 2 was weak. Not sure a sequel can work for this film.
 
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