Millennium Films’Angel Has Fallenhas added another new cast member, withPiper Perabosigning on in an unspecified role. While it is not known who she is playing, the actress joinsOlympus Has FallenandLondon Has Fallenstars Gerard Butler (Mike Banning) and Morgan Freeman (Alan Trumbull), along with franchise newcomer Holt McCallany (Mindhunter). McCallany will be playing an old friend of Banning, Wade Jennings, an ex-military man who is now the head of a technology company.
This story will follow Mike Banning as he becomes the target of a terrorist attack, only this attack will take place on Air Force One, in mid-flight. While promoting his new filmGeostormin October, Gerard Butler offered some newplot details, comparing this story toLogan, hinting that his character Mike Banning is “paying the price” for everything he went through physically inOlympus Has FallenandLondon Has Fallen. He added that this movie presents a more challenging journey for Mike Banning, since he has been “set up for this assassination attempt on the President.”
WhileGerard Butlerand Morgan Freeman are returning, it has yet to be confirmed if they will be joined byOlympus Has FallenandLondon Has Fallenco-stars Robert Forster (US Army General Edward Clegg), Melissa Leo (Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan) or Radha Mitchell (Leah Banning) for this third installment of theFallen franchise. Given that the story is said to largely take place on Air Force One, it could be a much smaller cast involved this time around, although with no further plot details to go on, that remains unclear. Millennium Films has yet to set a release date or production schedule for this action sequel quite yet.
The first movie in this franchise, 2013’sOlympus Has Fallen, was directed by Antoine Fuqua, from a script by Katrin Benedikt and Creighton Rothenberger, which took in $98.9 million domestically and $161 million worldwide, from a $70 million budget. 2016’sLondon Has Fallen, theaction sequeldirected by Babak Najafi and written by Katrin Benedikt and Creighton Rothenberger, slipped a bit at the domestic box office with $62.5 million, although it fared much better in international markets with $143.2 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $205.7 million, from a $60 million budget.
Ric Roman Waugh (Shot Caller) will take over the helm forAngel Has Fallen, with writers Katrin Benedikt and Creighton Rothenberger returning to write the third installment. Gerard Butler is also producingAngel Has Fallenalongside Mark Gill, Matt O’Toole, Alan Siegel and John Thompson, with Christa Campbell, Lati Grobman, Avi Lerner, Heidi Jo Markel, Christine Otal and Trevor Short serving as executive producers. Piper Perabo is perhaps best known for playing Annie Walker on USA Network’sCovert Affairs, and the short-lived 2016 ABC seriesNotorious. Her film credits include her breakthrough role in the 2000 filmCoyote Ugly, along withCheaper By the Dozen,The Cave,Looperand last year’s indie thrillerBlack Butterfly.Deadlinebroke the news about thisAngel Has Fallencasting earlier today.
