Night Has Fallen Should Make Gerard Butler's Banning The Next President
Night Has Fallen should take the next logical step in the franchise and make Gerard Butler's Mike Banning the actual President of the United States. Every once in a while in Hollywood, two movies with virtually identical concepts will go head to head in the same year. For example, 1997 saw the arrival of Volcano and Dante's Peak, with both being disaster movies where long-dormant volcanos suddenly erupt and wreak havoc. One of the most recent examples of this thread was in 2013 when Roland Emmerich's White House Down and Antoine Fuqua's Olympus Has Fallen battled it out at the box office.
Both were Die Hard-inspired action thrillers that saw terrorists take over the White House, with only one man being capable of stopping them. Olympus Has Fallen beat White House Down to the screen by a few months and ultimately proved to be the winner. Despite its R rating and mixed reviews, it turned a tidy profit, while White House Down was a financial disappointment. Olympus Has Fallen also gave lead Gerard Butler a surprise franchise, with both the movie and character aping '80s action movies.
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Butler and co-stars Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman and Angela Bassett all returned for 2016'sLondon Has Fallen, where Butler's Secret Service Agent Mike Banning had to save Eckhart's President Asher during an attack on London. The most recent outing was 2019's Angel Has Fallen, where Banning is framed for an assassination attempt on Freeman's President Trumbull and must clear his name and uncover a conspiracy. The Has Fallen movies have all been successful, and a fourth entry dubbed Night Has Fallen is in development with Butler returning; a spin-off TV series is also in the works. Butler's Banning
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