Despite powerful forward moment after Olympus Has Fallen won victory in the Battle Of The White House Action Films last year, sequel London Has Fallen stumbled recently when director Fredrik Bond decided to quit. But it appears that star Gerard Butler and the producers already have their eyes on a replacement, with Easy Money II: Hard To Kill’s Babak Najafi entering talks for the job.
With Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett, Radha Mitchell and Morgan Freeman returning as Secret Service agent Mike Banning, US President Benjamin Asher, Secret Service Director Lynn Jacobs, Leah Banning and Speaker Trumbull respectively, the sequel’s plot will see the characters headed to London to attend the funeral of a British Prime Minister.
World leaders from far and wide are in attendance, but it turns out that it's all a dastardly scheme to get them in one place for a mass assassination and a seismic change to the world order. Only Banning, the Prez and a distrustful MI6 agent can put a stop to the madness.
Najafi, who scored at the Berlin Film Festival in 2010 with his debut film Sebbe, has also worked on action-packed US TV drama Banshee, and would launch into US studio filmmaking with this one. If he makes a deal, he’ll oversee a shoot split into two chunks to accommodate Butler’s work on Geostorm.