Banning and Asher are on the run, even as the body count rises by the second. The American President obviously flies in (the French President is sitting in a boat, the poor Japanese premier is stuck in a traffic jam) and escapes in large part owing to Banning’s quick thinking.
When the world’s top leaders converge in London, for the “most secure and guarded event in the world”, the timing is perfect for a strike. The premise is not unlike the last season of Homeland – a First World attack on a wedding party in Pakistan that kills everyone except a handful of family members. As heads of state from all over the world gather in the British capital for the funeral, a few hundred Pakistani terrorists destroy London and its major landmarks while systematically eliminating some of the world’s top leaders, but not the US President because the terrorists miss out one detail. When the British Prime Minister’s sudden death requires an urgent visit to London, Banning has to cobble together a last-minute security plan. In Babak Najafi’s London Has Fallen, Banning is now in charge of Asher’s security arrangements. But they miss out on one crucial detail – the President’s former security guard Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is on the premises and he proceeds to save the day for the United States. In the Antoine Fuqua-directed 2013 hit Olympus Has Fallen, North Korean terrorists take over the White House and take some of its occupants hostage, including American President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart).
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