Olympus Has Fallen was a big, chubby hit last year. The movie was directed by Antoine Fuqua who falls in the director A-List. But when the time came to put together a sequel Fuqua got busy. He is currently busy in the direction of the upcoming The Equalizer with Southpaw. Because of this, the director’s chair got open for the upcoming sequel, London Has Fallen. And now it has been filled.
The Hollywood Reporter is saying that filmmaker Fredrik Bond will be directing London Has Fallen. The film will feature the continuing adventures of Agent Mike Banning. Gerard Butler return to treatise the Banning role. He will be joined by President Asher played by Aaron Eckhart and Speaker Trumbull played by Morgan Freeman aka the toughest Oval Office in the history of movies.
Now there is another synopsis for London Has Fallen, it involves another disaster that strikes while the aforementioned trio are in London at the funeral of the recently-deceased Prime Minister. No other details have yet been revealed about London Has Fallen.
Fredrik Bond has been mentioned as a contender for jobs as diverse as Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and this blockbuster sequel. Bond made his debut with Charlie Countryman, the 2013 romantic thriller starring Shia LaBeouf.
London Has Fallen starts filming this October for an October 2, 2015 release date. That’s a busy date: Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk shares real estate on that weekend, as does Daniel Radcliffe’s Frankenstein. Will one of those movies balk? Do the other two fear the fury of Mike Banning? We’ll see soon.