London Has Fall

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Movie
German title London Has Fall
Original title London Has Fall
London Has Fallen Logo.png
Country of production USA , UK , Bulgaria
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Babak Najafi
script Creighton Rothenberger ,
Katrin Benedikt ,
Chad St. John ,
Christian Gudegast
production Gerard Butler ,
Mark Gill ,
Danny Lerner ,
Matt O'Toole ,
Alan Siegel ,
Les Weldon
music Trevor Morris
camera Ed Wild
cut Michael J. Duthie ,
Paul Martin Smith
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Olympus Has Fallen - The world in danger

Successor  →
Angel Has Fallen

London Has Fallen is an American - British action film by director Babak Najafi , which was released in US cinemas on March 4, 2016 and in German cinemas on March 10, 2016. The film is a sequel to Olympus Has Fallen (2013).

The third installment in the series was released in the United States in August 2019 under the title Angel Has Fallen .

action

After the sudden death of British Prime Minister James Wilson, all leading heads of state in the western world are invited to his funeral in London. This includes the President of the United States, Benjamin Asher, who is accompanied by Secret Service agents Mike Banning and Lynn Jacobs.
During the journey to the scheduled funeral service, a very large group of separately attacking terrorists killed the Prime Minister of Canada, the German Chancellor, the Prime Minister of Japan, the Italian Prime Minister and the French President within a short time at various points in the British capital.
The terrorists want to avenge a deadly drone attack on a Pakistani wedding ceremony authorized by the G8 two years earlier by throwing the western world into chaos and promising further attacks in other metropolises. The attack on Asher and attempts to take him as a prisoner can initially be foiled by Banning and his staff. Most terrorists appear disguised as police officers or royal court guards , so that the situation is completely confusing and friend and foe can hardly be distinguished.

To worsen the situation, the terrorists also cause a city-wide power outage. After the attack on them, President Asher and Banning embarked on an escape from the terrorists, which led them through larger parts of the British capital by vehicles, helicopters and on foot. With the help of MI6 agent Jacquelin Marshall, they try to reach the American embassy, ​​but they fail.

The mastermind behind the attack, an internationally sought-after Pakistani arms dealer, finally arrests Asher and announces his execution, which he plans to broadcast live over the Internet. At the last moment, Banning can step in and work with the SAS to save the president. As it turned out later, the terrorists had a mole in the British secret service who made the infiltration of the security organs possible in the massive form that had happened. The terrorists were also responsible for the death of the British Prime Minister, which turns out to be murder. Years of preparation preceded the attack, and the funeral service was the trap set up for it.

production

Pre-production

Originally, production was supposed to start in London in May 2014. As with the film Olympus Has Fallen, Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt were hired as screenwriters and supported by Chad St. John and Christian Gudegast . Antoine Fuqua was unable to return to directing because of his work on The Equalizer . In May 2014 it was announced that Focus Features had acquired the distribution rights to the sequel and that it was actually planning to release the film on October 2, 2015. After Fredrik Bond was still under discussion as the new director in August 2014 , but left the project only six weeks before the planned start of filming, Babak Najafi was hired to direct on September 28, 2014 .

occupation

Gerard Butler , Morgan Freeman , Aaron Eckhart , Angela Bassett , Robert Forster and Radha Mitchell took over the roles from the movie Olympus Has Fallen . Jackie Earle Haley joined the crew on October 10, 2014, assuming the role of Deputy Chief of Staff, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Mason. On November 12, 2014, it was announced that Belgian actor Mehdi Dehbi would play the role of Sultan Mansoor, the youngest of three brothers whose lives were completely changed in the film after a drone attack .

Filming

One of the filming locations: the courtyard of Somerset House in London .

Filming for the film began on October 24, 2014 in London . It was filmed for four weeks with the participation of the actors Freeman, Eckhart, Bassett and Melissa Leo before the Christmas break. Gerard Butler, who was filming Geostorm , later joined them and shot a few scenes with Eckhart and Bassett in March 2015. The shoot also took place in the Somerset House area, which usually hosts London Fashion Week and summer screenings become. Butler also confirmed in an interview that parts of the film will be shot in India and Bulgaria. Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev visited the set while filming at the Boyana Cinema Center in Bulgaria. Large parts of the scenes that take place in London at Saint Paul's Churchyard and in the Mayfair district were filmed on sets from the Bulgarian Nu Boyana film studios . The setting there, which is modeled on a street in the Middle East , was also used. Filming lasted until April 2015.

publication

On May 20, 2015, Focus Features reactivated its Gramercy Pictures brand for action, horror and science fiction films and released London Has Fallen under their name. The release was originally planned for October 2, 2015. On June 12, 2015, however, it was announced that the film would be postponed to January 22, 2016 in order not to compete with Ridley Scott's film The Martian , which swapped its original starting date on November 25, 2015 with Victor Frankenstein two days earlier would have. The first trailer for the film was released on July 1, 2015. The timing of the release has been described as "tactless" by the Tavistock Square Memorial Trust, as it coincided with the week of the 10th anniversary of the London bombings , which killed 52 people, and the Sousse attacks which 30 British were killed. On September 6, 2015, the release date was postponed to March 4, 2016 as the studio needed more time to complete the visual effects . The official US trailer was released on November 5, 2015. A new movie poster was also released on January 21, 2016.

reception

Reviews

Even before it officially opened in theaters, the film had received mostly negative reviews.

Even after the US premiere, the negatives predominated. So designated z. B. Peter Travers from Rolling Stone London Has Fallen as a "poisonous stew", which only confirms the audience in their xenophobic attitude, and therefore called for a boycott of the film. Mark Kermode called the film on the BBC "terrible and utterly boring" ("terrible and thoroughly boring"). Positive reviews remained exceptions.

Gross profit

The film grossed $ 21.6 million in North American cinemas on its opening weekend and landed at number 2 on the box-office charts. The worldwide revenue of the film is around 196 million US dollars, which is 31 million US dollars more than the first part, which had raised 165 million US dollars. The film's production budget was $ 60 million, which was $ 10 million cheaper than the first.

In Germany, the film had 389,627 cinema-goers (as of August 7, 2016).

Awards

NAACP Image Awards 2017

Golden Raspberry 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Approval for London Has Fallen . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for London Has Fallen . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Sandy Schaefer: 'London Has Fallen' Eyes New Director In: screenrant.com, September 29, 2014.
  4. ↑ Focus Features Dates 'Olympus' Sequel 'London Has Fallen' For October 2015 In: deadline.com, May 1, 2014.
  5. ↑ Justin Kroll: Fredrik Bond to Direct 'Olympus Has Fallen' Sequel In: Variety, August 18, 2014.
  6. ↑ 'Olympus Has Fallen' Sequel Loses Its Director In: The Hollywood Reporter, September 18, 2014.
  7. ↑ Troubled 'Olympus Has Fallen' Sequel Finds Director In: The Hollywood Reporter, September 28, 2014.
  8. ↑ Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, and Aaron Eckhart Returning for OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN sequel LONDON HAS FALLEN.
  9. ↑ Jeff Sneider: 'Olympus Has Fallen' Sequel Lands Jackie Earle Haley As First New Cast Member In: thewrap.com, October 10, 2014.
  10. ↑ Jen Yamato: 'London Has Fallen' Adds 'Tyrant' Thesp; Cara Buono Joins 'Paper Towns'; DC Superhero Rumors Swirl In: deadline.com, November 12, 2014.
  11. ↑ Michael Rosser: London Has Fallen begins filming . Screen Daily. November 3, 2014. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  12. ^ First day of filming "London Has Fallen" sequel to "Olympus Has Fallen". Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman . October 24, 2014.
  13. ↑ Hanna Flint: A bloodied Gerard Butler hits the London Has Fallen set wearing a battered suit and tie with co-star Aaron Eckhart . Daily Mail.com. March 5, 2015. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
  14. ↑ PICS: Gerard Butler spotted speeding down Strand in filming of action thriller . March 8, 2015. Accessed March 8, 2015.
  15. ↑ PICTURED: Helicopter makes a dramatic landing at Somerset House as Gerard Butler continues filming his new movie London Has Fallen . Daily Mail.com. March 9, 2015. Accessed March 10, 2015.
  16. ^ Nilo Haq: Interview with Gerard Butler in Dubai . March 31, 2015. Archived from the original on February 1, 2016. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 1, 2016: "Eye candy Gerard Butler is the new ambassador for Boss Bottled" @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / saudibeautyblog.com
  17. ↑ Плевнелиев: Три пъти повече филми може да се снимат у нас . March 24, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
  18. ^ Bulgarian President visits London Has Fallen . March 24, 2015. Archived from the original on April 27, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 19, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gerardbutlergals.com
  19. ↑ Nu Boyana Film Studios: Nu Boyana Sets - London Set , accessed March 20, 2016
  20. ↑ Nu Boyana Film Studios: Nu Boyana Sets - Middle East Street , accessed March 20, 2016, cf. with KinoCheck: LONDON HAS FALLEN Trailer German Deutsch (2016) , minute 1:11 to 1:12, accessed on March 20, 2016
  21. ↑ Troubled 'Olympus Has Fallen' Sequel Finds Director , hollywoodreporter.com. September 28, 2014. Retrieved September 29, 2014. 
  22. ↑ Focus Features Revives Gramercy Pictures Label For Genre Films , deadline.com. May 20, 2015. 
  23. ↑ London Has Fallen Has Moved to 2016 , ComingSoon.net. June 12, 2015. 
  24. ↑ Fox Switches 'The Martian' and 'Victor Frankenstein' Release Dates . June 10, 2015. Accessed June 12, 2015. 
  25. ↑ Watch: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart Fight for Their Lives in 'London Has Fallen' Teaser , Variety. July 1, 2015. 
  26. ↑ Gerard Butler film London Has Fallen SLAMMED as 'insensitive' while promoting capital's destruction days before 7/7 bombings anniversary . July 1, 2015. Accessed July 7, 2015. 
  27. ↑ 'London Has Fallen' On A New Release Date: Gerard Butler Action Film To Open March 4, 2016 . In: deadline.com , September 16, 2015. Retrieved September 18, 2015. 
  28. ↑ Jeff Sneider: Gerard Butler Protects Aaron Eckhart From Terrorists in 'London Has Fallen' Trailer (Video) . The wrap. November 5, 2015. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
  29. ↑ Clark Collis: See the exclusive new poster for action sequel London Has Fallen . Entertainment Weekly. January 21, 2016. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
  30. ↑ London Has Fallen In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
  31. ↑ Peter Travers: London Has Fallen In: rollingstone.com, March 4, 2016.
  32. ↑ Johannes von der Gathen: Alle tot, also the Chancellor In: Passauer Neue Presse, March 9, 2016.
  33. ↑ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/london_has_fallen/#contentReviews
  34. ↑ London Has Fallen
  35. ↑ Top 100 Germany 2016 In: insidekino.com. Retrieved August 9, 2016.
  36. ↑ Ruth Kinane: Beyoncé leads the pack of 2017 NAACP Image Awards nominees In: Entertainment Weekly, December 13, 2016.