London Has Fallen is a 2016 action thriller film directed by Babak Najafi and produced by Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel, Mark Gill, John Thompson, Matt O’Toole and Les Weldon. The screenplay was written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, Christian Gudegast and Chad St. John based on a story and characters by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt. The film stars Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Alon Moni Aboutboul, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Jackie Earle Haley, Melissa Leo, Radha Mitchell, Sean O’Bryan, Waleed Zuaiter and Charlotte Riley. London Has Fallen is a sequel to Antoine Fuqua’s 2013 film Olympus Has Fallen and the second installment in the Fallen film series.
The storyline is based after the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances, all leaders of the Western world must attend his funeral. But 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 President of the United States, his formidable secret service head and a British MI-6 agent who trusts no one are the only people that have any hope of stopping it.
In London Has Fallen Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Robert Forster, Melissa Leo and Radha Mitchell all reprised their roles from original film, Olympus Has Fallen. The director for Olympus Has Fallen, Antoine Fuqua, was scheduled to return however he couldnt due to his commitments with the film The Equalizer. Principal photography began on 24th October 2014, in and around London, United Kingdom with the actors also seen filming in Somerset House. Gerard Butler stated in an interview that the movie was also filmed in India and Bulgaria.
When London Has Fallen was released it received negative reviews from the critics. On Rotten Tomatoes it currently holds a rating of 28% with the general consensus being, “London Has Fallen traps a talented cast — and all who dare to see it — in a mid-1990s basic-cable nightmare of a film loaded with xenophobia and threadbare action-thriller clichés”.
It also drew its own controversy, with Variety describing it as “effortlessly racist” invoking “familiar Islamophobia”, a “terrorsploitation” fantasy designed to spread fear after the November 2015 Paris attacks, and “ugly, reactionary fear-mongering”. The film was also called “extremely insensitive” by families of the victims of the 7/7 bombings after an early trailer was released ahead of the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
Despite the negative reviews from the critics and controversy, London Has Fallen was commercially successful. It was made with an esitmated production budget of $60 million and in its opening weekend it acheived $21,635,601 in US box office reciepts and went on to gross $62.7 million in the US. Internationally, London Has Fallen acheived $143,230,187 in box office receipts giving it worldwide box office receipts of $205,754,447. This figure beat its predecessor’s worldwide box office receipts total of $170 million.
In October 2016, it was announced that a sequel called Angel Has Fallen was in development and Gerard Butler would be reprising his role, as well as once again producing the film. Angel Has Fallen was released on 23rd August 2019.
Film Details
Title
London Has Fallen
Year of Film
2016
Director
Babak Najafi
Starring
Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Alan Moni Aboutboul, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Jackie Earle Haley, Melissa Leo, Radha Mitchell, Sean O’Bryan, Waleed Zuaiter
Origin of Film
USA
Genre(s) of Film
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Box Office
Budget: $60,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $21,635,601 (USA)
Gross: $62,401,264 (USA)
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