Back in the more innocent days of 2013, a set of “Twin Films” or movies with the same premise, competed for our attention. Both dealt with a secret service type tasked with saving the president from terrorists. There was the Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx-starrer “White House Down,” and the Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart movie “Olympus Has Fallen.” Like with “Armaggeddon” versus “Deep Impact,” audiences went with the arguably lesser movie, but that hasn’t stopped Gerard Butler from making more movies where things fall, and as it was just reported, he’s threatening us all with three more movies if we don’t listen to his as-of-now-unnamed demands.
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The news comes from Deadline, with a report that at a conference during the very exciting-sounding American Film Market’s finance conference, the franchise’s producer Alan Siegel said that they’re looking into making “a fourth, fifth and even sixth entry in the series,” according to the article. Siegel also added that they are considering selling the franchise to international TV stations for local-language spin-offs that would make this an international franchise, with characters crossing over into the main film series (that that, Marvel!): “If we do it in India, the star of that could come into Angel Has Fallen 4. It could be a symbiotic relationship,” Siegel said.
Despite being little more than another “Die Hard” rip-off, people seem to have enjoyed watching Gerard Butler fighting terrorists in government buildings, as the follow-up, “London Has Fallen,” moved the action to London, and somehow became highly xenophobic. A third movie was just released in August, but the jury is still out on whether anyone bothered to see it. Apparently, it had Mike Banning (Butler) be framed for the attempted assassination of the president. Of course, the only logical step-forward is “The Moon Has Fallen,” which would bring Butler to the Moon to protect a local politician from the space pirates from “Ad Astra.” You’re welcome, Gerard Butler.
