London Has Fallen: This Time, It’s UK’s Turn with the Terrorists

Focus Features' London Has Fallen, the sequel to 2013's box office hit Olympus Has Fallen, is set to be released to US theaters beginning October 2. Directed by Babak Najafi from a screenplay written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, Christian Gudegast and Chad St. John, the sequel will continue with a new storyline for US Secret Service agent Mike Banning and US President Benjamin Asher.

The original film's lead cast of Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett, Radha Mitchell and Morgan Freeman will be returning to reprise their roles as Secret Service agent Mike Banning, US President Benjamin Asher, Secret Service Director Lynn Jacobs, Leah Banning and Speaker Trumbull, respectively. Joining them in the sequel are Robert Forster as US Army General Edward Clegg, Melissa Leo as Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan, Jack Earl Hayley as Deputy Chief Mason, Sean O'Brien as NSA Deputy Director Ray Monroe, Mehdi Dhebi as Sultan Mansoor, with Alon Aboutboul, Charlotte Riley, Waleed Zuaiter, Jorge Leon Martinez, Julie Montgomery Brown, Nancy Baldwin, Anthony Milton, Mihail Bilalov, Owen Davis, Ricky Rajpal, Philip Delancy, Jean Baptiste Fillon, Sonia Mason, and Krasen Belev.

According to the studio's synopsis, London Has Fallen picks up in London, where the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances. His funeral is a must-attend event for leaders of the Western world. 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. Only three people have any hope of stopping it: the President of the United States of America Benjamin Asher (Eckhart), his formidable Secret Service head Mike Banning (Butler), and an English MI-6 agent who rightly trusts no one.

London Has Fallen is produced by Gerard Butler with Alan Siegel, Mark Gill and Matt O'Toole. Focus Features CEO Peter Schlessel and Millenium Films' Avi Lerner will executive produce with Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson, John Thompson and Christine Crow.