Mike who sees what's happening from his office goes there and starts shooting at the attackers. Secret Service agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack and works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers. "[26] Metacritic assigns the film a weighted average score of 41 out of 100 based on 30 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Emmerich's similarly-themed White House Down with Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum opens June 28th while Olympus Has Fallen gets the first crack at … The main cause of his resignation was the demotion of Mike Banning from the head of the President's security detail. Trumbull comes into the Pentagon, where he is made acting president. Mike Banning is a Secret Service Agent who is assigned to the President and is close to him and his family. Banning escorts Asher out of the White House to receive medical attention. Authorized to proceed, Banning's first act is to save Connor, whom Kang plans to use to force Asher to reveal his Cerberus code. Banning pulls Asher from the vehicle, but fails to save Margaret as she falls to her death. During his presidency, Asher suffered the devastating loss of his wife and only 18 months later, the White House Siege occurred. Aided by rogue members of the prime minister's own detail, including former Secret Service agent-turned-private contractor Dave Forbes, they hold Asher and several top officials hostage in the PEOC. The central characters are Butler's Banning, Freeman's President Trumbull, and whoever the main antagonist is revealed to be. " Olympus Has Fallen " (opened March 22 throughout San Diego) serves up "Die … It earned $170 million against a $70 million production budget. Eighteen months later, Banning works at the Treasury Department, having been removed from the presidential detail. Yes, and they’d be 15 minutes late as the US Marine Corps has guards there 24/7. [33] However, the film's release was delayed to March 4, 2016. As such the idea of “any other day” fits the everyday man normally played by John McClane, but instead is played by Mike Banning. Mike, who's in the White House, eventually gets a special cellphone and calls them. [32], On May 1, 2014, it was announced that Focus Features had acquired distribution rights to the sequel and would release it on October 2, 2015, though this was later pushed back to January 22, 2016. Ruth McMillan is the Secretary of Defense to U.S. President Benjamin Asher who is among the hostages held in the White House by North Korean terrorist Kang Yeonsak and his group of terrorists in Olympus Has Fallen. He was a member of the Secret Service until his resignation on May 6, 2012. When the White House is under a terrorist attack, President Benjamin Asher is kidnapped by terrorist Kang and Banning breaks in the place. [4] The rest of the characters were cast throughout June and July. As in the 1988 hit, a man in a very small space has to eliminate the terrorists. On October 10, 2014, it was announced that Jackie Earle Haley would join London Has Fallen as a Deputy Chief Mason. In 2012, Millennium Films competed against Sony Pictures, which was producing White House Down (also about a takeover of the White House) to complete casting and to begin filming. Olympus Has Fallen is a 2013 American action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua from a screenplay written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt. Olympus Has Fallen is a 2013 American action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua from a screenplay written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt. Parents Guide. By: debbie lynn elias. Banning takes out most of the KUF as they retreat back to the bunker. [20], Olympus Has Fallen grossed $98.9 million in the U.S. and Canada and $71.3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $170.2 million against a budget of $70 million. Above: Aaron Eckhart plays a U.S. president who gets held hostage in "Olympus Has Fallen." Gerard Butler (Olympus Has Fallen) stars as a Secret Service agent who must rescue the president, played by Aaron Eckhart (Olympus Has Fallen), from North Korean terrorists. He seeks to detonate the American nuclear arsenal to turn the United States into an irradiated wasteland in revenge for his mother's death. But what can they do. Eventually it crashes at the White House, that's when some people in the crowd pull guns and shoot the secret service agents. "), and it actually has an R rating. Also on the President's security detail is Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler). To do this, he needs the access codes to the Cerberus system, held only by Asher, Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Joseph Hoenig, all of whom are inside the PEOC. Eckhart played President Benjamin Asher in both Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen. As Kang and his remaining KUF men attempt to escape, Banning ambushes and kills all of them except Kang. Emergency Alert System, and several cable companies were fined by the Federal Communications Commission for airing the ad. After Asher is shot, Banning confronts and engages in hand-to-hand combat with Kang. "Olympus Has Fallen" has a hundred times the carnage of "Die Hard," and a tenth the style. But everything changes when, during a horrific car accident, Banning is able to save the president but not the first lady (Ashley Judd), who plunges to her death. [21][22], The film was released to home video in the United States on DVD and Blu-ray formats on August 13, 2013. It is the first installment in the Has Fallen film series. Synopsis A sequel, titled London Has Fallen, was released on March 4, 2016, with the principal cast members reprising their roles. For example, computers were used to create nearly all of the opening sequence in which the First Lady is killed in a car accident, with chroma key greenscreen technology used to composite the actors into the computer-generated snowy scenery. President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) is preparing to attend a fundraiser with his wife Margaret Asher (Ashley Judd), and son Connor (Finley Jacobsen). However, the Antoine Fuqua film was shot in Louisiana, necessitating a major visual effects effort in order to create the capital, airplanes, helicopters and a fair amount of movie mayhem. "[30], Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett and Radha Mitchell returned for a sequel titled London Has Fallen revolving around a major terrorist strike on London during the funeral of the British Prime Minister. Banning sees through the ruse. After a car accident where the First Lady dies, Secret Service Special Agent Mike Banning is disgraced and transferred to the bureaucratic service. We won’t get a franchise out of his character, but in this case of Olympus Has Fallen versus White House Down. Banning joins the White House's defenders during KUF's initial assault. Benjamin "Ben" Asher (born February 2, 1963) was the 45th President of the United States. There … Olympus Has Fallen (2013) Director: Antoine Fuqua Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Finley Jacobsen, Rick Yune, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Dylan McDermott Genres: When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, former Presidential Secret Service Agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. Ominously, it is snowing. Olympus Has Fallen was directed by Antoine Fuqua, based on a script by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt in their first screenwriting effort. [38] The film was released on March 4, 2016. Find out if a dog dies in Olympus Has Fallen from over 10 other people who have already watched it. In Die Hard, it didn’t take much. The elevator pitch for Angel Has Fallen is that a hero is blamed for trying to kill the president and now must fight for his innocence. Asher witnessed the deaths of multiple American citizens, allies and friends before the attack was over and though he survived, he was wounded. Kang uses Asher's hostage status to force Trumbull to withdraw the Seventh Fleet and U.S. forces from the Korean Peninsula, thus removing American opposition to a third Korean War. It earned $38.2 million in video rental sales in the U.S.[23], A lawsuit was filed in 2013 by John S. Green against Rothenberger alleging Green was the source of the movie's characters and material. Asher orders McMillan and Hoenig to reveal their codes to save their lives, certain that he will not give up his own code. Agent David Forbes is a character in Olympus Has Fallen. Empty building except for the terrorists, hostages, and hero. With the KUF dwindling, Kang fakes his and Asher's death by sacrificing several of his commandos and the remaining hostages in a helicopter explosion. Olympus Has Fallen tells the story of a terrorist attack on the White House in Washington, D.C. Olympus Has Fallen is the kind of film that could probably stand to devote a bit more time to its characters, but not that much more, lest it lose its ability to keep the audience engaged, an audience that expects gun fights, punching and explosions over sensitive portrayals of a hostage President and a killing machine secret service agent. Banning finds Connor hiding in the building's walls and sneaks him to safety. He then goes to save the President. But it hits its marks. He falls back into the White House, disabling internal surveillance and gaining access to Asher's satellite earphone, which he uses to maintain contact with Jacobs and Speaker of the House Allan Trumbull, now acting president, in the Pentagon's emergency briefing room. Olympus Has Fallen (2013) Disgraced Secret Service agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack and works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers. [9] Because Olympus Has Fallen was filmed so far from its actual setting of Washington, D.C., the entire production relied heavily upon visual effects, particularly computer-generated imagery. [25], Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 49% based on 198 reviews and a weighted average rating of 5.40/10. The plot depicts a North Korean-led guerrilla assault on the White House, and focuses on disgraced United States Secret Ser… Olympus Has Fallen was one of two films released in 2013 that depicted a terrorist attack against the White House; the other was White House Down. Former U.S. Army Ranger Mike Banning is a Secret Service agent assigned to be the chief of the U.S. presidential detail, maintaining a personal, friendly relationship with President Benjamin Asher, First Lady Margaret, and their son Connor. He manages to kill one goon before getting killed himself. Movie review : Olympus Has Fallen If you can manage to forget the all time favorite ‘Die Hard Series’ before you enter the theater, Olympus Has Fallen does fall heavy on you. The President has a delegation from South Korea visiting. A year and a half later, Mike wants to come back but the President, though not holding a grudge, is not ready to have him back. Afterwards, Banning is reappointed to the head of the president's security detail as Asher speaks about the aftermath of the attack. The Army would probably turn up around the same time as reinforcements from the Marine Barracks down the road did. Olympus Has Fallen may seem far-fetched, but one Secret Service agent has insisted that that film portrays what White House security detail would do in the event of an attack and the president… The film was released in the United States on March 22, 2013, by FilmDistrict. And outside all the Secret Service agents are killed and the shooters take over the White House. On August 18, 2014, it was announced that Charlie Countryman director Fredrik Bond would take over direction from Fuqua,[34] but Bond left the film on September 18, just six weeks before shooting was set to begin. The record was released on March 15, 2013 via Relativity Music Group label. During Asher's meeting with South Korean Prime Minister Lee Tae-Woo at the White House, the Koreans for United Freedom (KUF), a North Korean terrorist group led by Kang Yeonsak, mounts an air attack (with an AC-130 gunship) and hundreds of ground assault mercenaries to capture the building and kill most of the White House defense force. [37] Filming for the sequel began on October 24, 2014. The plot depicts a North Korean-led guerrilla assault on the White House, and focuses on disgraced United States Secret Service agent Mike Banning's efforts to rescue U.S. President Benjamin Asher. 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It's just not done yet. They seize control over PEOC, the secure bunker, with the President inside. It makes you sick over the threat to American might. Before being killed, agent Roma alerts Secret Service Director Lynne Jacobs that "Olympus has fallen." Roma declares "Olympus has fallen" to signify that the White House has been invaded.