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Olympus Has Fallen
Olympus Has Fallen theatrical poster
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Produced by Gerard Butler
Alan Siegel
Mark Gill
Written by Creighton Rothenberger
Katrin Benedikt
Starring Gerard Butler
Aaron Eckhart
Morgan Freeman
Angela Bassett
Robert Forster
Cole Hauser
Finley Jacobsen
Ashley Judd
Melissa Leo
Dylan McDermott
Radha Mitchell
Rick Yune
Music by Trevor Morris
Cinematography Conrad W. Hall
Editing by John Refoua
Production company Millennium Films
Distributed by FilmDistrict
Release date(s) March 22, 2013
Running time 120 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $70,000,000
Gross revenue $170,270,201
Followed by London Has Fallen
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Olympus Has Fallen is an American action thriller film. It is the first installment of the Has Fallen film series and was theatrically released on March 22, 2013.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua, it stars Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Rick Yune, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Cole Hauser, Finley Jacobsen, Ashley Judd, Melissa Leo, Dylan McDermott, and Radha Mitchell.

Synopsis

After failing to save First Lady Margaret Asher, disgraced Secret Service agent Mike Banning must take action after a North Korean terrorist group captures the White House. Working with national security, Mike must use his inside knowledge to rescue President Benjamin Asher from his kidnappers.

Plot

U.S. Army Ranger Mike Banning is the lead Secret Service agent assigned to head the Presidential Detail. He maintains a personal, friendly relationship with U.S. President Benjamin Asher, First Lady Margaret and, especially, their son Connor. During an evening drive from Camp David to a campaign fundraiser on December 25, 2011, a tree branch falls and strikes the front of the president’s convoy, making the vehicles skid out of control on black ice on a bridge. The lead vehicle crashes through the guard rail and falls into the icy river below, leaving the presidential limousine teetering on the edge of the bridge. Mike is able to save President Asher, but Margaret and two other agents die when their vehicle falls and crashes.

Eighteen months later, on July 5th, 2013, Mike works at the Treasury Department, within sight of the White House, having been removed from the Presidential Detail because the sight of him triggers Asher’s memories of the night Margaret died. During a political meeting between Asher and South Korean Prime Minister Lee Tae-Woo, North Korean-led guerilla forces, under the guise as local garbage services and a crowd of tourists, mount an air and ground assault. Aided inside the White House by treasonous members of Prime Minister Lee’s detail and Dave Forbes, an ex-U.S. Secret Service agent turned private contractor, and aerial cover fire from a US military aircraft, the attack results in the eventual capture of the White House. Asher and several top officials are held hostage in the White House bunker, where Prime Minister Lee is killed. Before he is also killed, agent Roma alerts the Director of the Secret Service Lynne Jacobs that “Olympus has fallen”.

The attack was masterminded by Kang Yeonsak, a North Korean ultranationalist who appears to be motivated by hope for a reunification of Korea, seeking to use Asher’s hostage status as leverage to force U.S. officials to withdraw USFK forces from the Korean Peninsula, allowing the civil war to end. He also seeks to destroy all of America’s nuclear weapons in their respective silos spread across the country, turning North America an irradiated wasteland as revenge for the deaths of his parents, as his mother was killed by an American landmine and his father was executed for crimes against North Korea. To accomplish this, he requires access to Cerberus: a fail-safe device that self-detonates any U.S. nuclear missiles during an abort, the access codes of which are held by three top government officials within the bunker, including the President. Asher orders the other two officials to reveal their codes to save their lives, certain that he won't give up his code.

During the assault by Kang’s forces on the front lawn, Mike joins the White House’s defenders. He falls back into the building, disables the internal surveillance and gains access to Asher’s satellite phone, which he uses to maintain contact with Jacobs and Speaker of the House of Representatives Allan Trumbull, who is now the Acting President. Authorized to proceed, Mike’s first act is to save Connor, who Kang plans to use to force Asher to reveal his Cerberus code. Despite resistance, Mike finds Connor hiding in the hidden tunnels behind the Lincoln Bedroom walls, thanks to the training Mike had given him before, and sneaks him out of the White House before beginning reconnaissance and reducing the terrorists’ numbers one by one. This includes Forbes, but not before Mike convinces Forbes to report to Kang that he killed Mike. Meanwhile, Army Chief of Staff General Edward Clegg convinces Trumbull to order an aerial SEAL assault on the White House in an attempt to enter through the roof and shut down Cerberus, but Kang’s team deploys an advanced anti-aircraft remote gun system called the Hydra 6, a fully automated weapons system capable of seeking targets independently. Discovering this, Mike advises Trumbull and Clegg to abort the mission, but it proceeds and the Hydra 6 annihilates all but one of the six helicopters before Mike can stop it. Kang retaliates for the attempted infiltration by killing Vice President Charlie Rodriguez on an open line to the Pentagon crisis room.

After Mike disables Kang’s communications, Kang tries to execute Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan outside the White House in front of the media, but Mike's intervention allows her to escape and he takes out several more of Kang’s men in the process. With Kang’s forces dwindling, he fakes his own death as well as Asher’s by sacrificing several of his men and the remaining hostages. However, Mike believes that Kang has faked his death and he believes he will attempt to sneak away. Kang eventually cracks Asher’s code and activate Cerberus. As Kang attempts to escape with Asher, Mike kills the remaining terrorists, but Asher is shot by Kang in the stomach when he tried to fight Kang. Mike kills Kang by stabbing him in the head with a knife after overpowering him in hand-to-hand combat. Mike disables Cerberus with the assistance of Trumbull with only seconds to spare. During daybreak that day, Mike walks out with Asher and is received by the soldiers posted to await their arrival. Sometime after the events, Washington recovers from the attack and Mike once again becomes head of the Presidential Detail with him, Jacobs, Clegg, and Connor observing President Asher as he addresses the public.

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Cast


Supporting Cast

 

Reporters Playing Themselves:

Secret Service Agent Actors:

  • Rex Baker as a Navy SEAL

Civilians/Tourists Actors:

  • Ricky French as a Tourist and a Gov't official
  • Michael P Gardner as a Secret Service Agent and SEAL Team Copter Pilot
  • Jeramie Dominguez as Korean Co-Pilot
  • Arden Cho, Peter Jae, Zero Kazama, Scott Yi and Woon Young Park as Korean Commandos/Stunt Performers
  • Wes Sutton as F-22 Pilot
  • Danny Le Boyer as a Korean Commando and an Army Soldier/Stunt Performer
  • Lewis Tan as Various Commandos/Stunt Performer
  • Ho-Sung Pak and Don Thai Theerathada as Interrogated Commandos/Stunt Performers
  • Nathan Tremaine as a Secret Service Agent and SEAL Team Sniper
  • David Lee Valle and Joshua Robertson as EOC Techs
  • Jason Yee as Korean Motorcade Agent/Stunt Performer
  • Andy Wayne as FBI Aide
  • Brent Weisner as Blackhawk Pilot #1
  • Stephen Waters as Injured Commando in Hospital, Hostage, Tourist and White House Commando
  • Greg Washington as Aide to the FBI Director
  • Mary Alfred Thoma as Mary
  • Lj Smith as Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
  • Giovanni Silva as a Sniper, Army Ranger, and a Secret Service Agent
  • David Joseph Martinez as a Senate Intelligence Officer
  • Codie Rimmer as a Press Room Reporter and a Wounded Tourist
  • Joshua Antwon Leonard as an Armed Guard
  • Nat Milo as Pentagon Korean Analyst and a Korean Sniper
  • Alice Searcy as a Wounded Tourist and a Tourist
  • Cody Pottkotter as a Sniper
  • Claude Miles as an Army Ranger and a Secret Service Agent
  • Eddie Matthews and Pauline Boudreaux as White House Doctors/Stunt Performers
  • Cesar Martinez as a Secret Service Agent and a Hostage
  • Deborah R. Jones as Pentagon Aide
  • Steve Jimenez as Taxi Driver and Secret Service Agent
  • Ronnie Hooks as Director of Homeland Security
  • A. Michelle Harleston as Jacob's Military Aide
  • William G. Gil as Soldier
  • Michael Hollandsworth as Air Force 4-Star General
  • Candiss Nicole Gandy as a Hostage, a Secretary, a Commando and a Secret Service Agent
  • Bob Fanucchi as a Paramilitary Operations Officer
  • Sarah Lynn Eilts as White House Secretary
  • Gary Eoff as Marine Sgt. Johnson
  • James DeWitt III as Command Center Soldier
  • Sheri Davis as ER Doctor
  • Raul Colon as Army Man
  • John C. Coffman, Mickey Parson and Daniel Garner as Marine Corps Generals
  • Quincy Castillo as scarred patient's male nurse
  • Celeste Sunshyne Burgess as innocent tourist bystander
  • Brent Sparks as scarred patient in hospital
  • Vicki Lynn Hollins as traumatized hospital bystander
  • John Marty as Pentagon Aide
  • Michelle Floyd Davis as a civilian in the background behind Mike Banning
  • Heather Rene Hutson as pedestrian and extra with car
  • Lorie Williams as Camp David Staff Member

Extras:

  • Judy Duff-Lundy, Andy Burnett, Ford C. Bevens, Andrei Constantinescu, Ira Cooks, John Callahan, Jennifer Turman Kimball, Shenelle Wallace Price, Colleen A. McCoy, Terry Ash Ebbo, Laura Rader Michaud, Cheyenne Anderson, Rachael McQuade Cothran, Adam CothranDonnie McCaa and Megan Devora
  • Jerald Amaya Sr. as 4 different extra roles
  • Robin Lee Canode as 2 different extra roles
  • Kelley Wyskiel as several different extra roles.

Additional Extras:

  • Rod Tait, Dalys Cordero, James Frey, Russ Skains, Mary Kim, Bill Easy, Tracy B. Elkins, Alex Lung-Chih Shiue, Dave Moon and Jackie Ogle Anderson


Stunts Crew

  • Stunt Performers
    • Chuck Picerni
    • Ted Barba
    • Ivailo Dimitrov
    • Joshua Wright
    • Tyron Woodley
    • Mike Wilson
    • Luke Sexton
    • Billy Tilk
    • Kevin Waterman
    • Vencislav Stojanov
    • Gary Ray Stearns
    • Greg Sproles
    • Tim J. Smith
    • Felipe Savahge
    • David Sanders
    • Adam Rho
    • Víctor Quintero
    • Rod Phillips
    • Brian Philpot
    • Tom O'Connell
    • Dave Noble
    • Carl Anthony Nespoli
    • Herb McConathy
    • Mike Mayhall
    • Tim Mattfeld
    • Victor Lopez
    • Carlos Lopez IV
    • 'Big' Jack Little
    • Kim Robert Koscki
    • Jace Jeanes
    • Radoslav Ignatov
    • Jim Henry
    • Barry Hanley
    • Demetrius Griffin
    • Walter Garcia
    • Lex D. Geddings
    • Curtis Norman Fuqua
    • Mike Fierro
    • Michael Endoso
    • Chris J. Fanguy
    • Eyad Elbitar
    • Yan Dron
    • Quinn Early
    • Kurt DeVille
    • Yves Edwards
    • Mark De Alessandro
    • Stephen Conroy
    • Trace Cheramie
    • Steve J. Brown
    • Mark Chavarria
    • Sean Paul Braud
    • Dan Bilzerian
    • Gianni Biasetti
    • Hunter Baxley
    • John Bernecker
    • Gary Baxley
    • Kristina Baskett
    • Ronald Adams
  • Stunt Drivers
    • Bill Scharpf and Stanton Barrett

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