Army Ranger Mike Banning is a Secret Service agent assigned to be the chief of the U.S. 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.Ī sequel, titled London Has Fallen, was released in March 2016, with the principal cast members reprising their roles, and a third film, Angel Has Fallen, was released in August 2019.įormer U.S. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Fuqua's direction and Butler's performance, but criticized the overt violence and screenplay. The film was released in the United States on March 22, 2013, by FilmDistrict, and grossed $170 million against a $70 million production budget.

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. The film stars Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Cole Hauser, Ashley Judd, Melissa Leo, Dylan McDermott, Radha Mitchell, and Rick Yune. Olympus Has Fallen is a 2013 American action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua from a screenplay written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, and is the first installment in the Has Fallen film series.