Olympus Has Fallen (2013) on Netflix
Secret Service agent Mike Banning saves President Benjamin Asher from a wrecked limousine but not the First Lady. Eighteen months later, terrorists storm the White House with Asher inside.
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- Rotten Tomatoes50%
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Plot summary
Mike Banning works on the Secret Service detail that guards President Benjamin Asher, and he knows the family well. On a snowy drive the presidential car slides off a bridge; Banning cuts Asher free, but the limousine falls with First Lady Margaret still inside. Eighteen months on, Banning has a desk job at the Treasury Department. North Korean terrorists under Kang Yeonsak seize the White House as Asher meets South Korean Prime Minister Lee Tae-Woo, holding the President and senior officials hostage in the bunker below the White House. Banning is in the building. He disables the surveillance system and reaches Secret Service director Lynne Jacobs and Speaker Allan Trumbull at the Pentagon, where Trumbull is acting president. Kang demands the withdrawal of American forces from South Korea.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
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- Star and producer Gerard Butler sued Nu Image/Millennium Films for $10 million in July 2021, claiming the company had understated the film's domestic gross by $17.5 million and failed to report $8 million that went to its own executives; the suit settled in 2023.
- An authorship dispute over who created the film's characters was settled for $175,000, with Creighton Rothenberger retaining the rights; the other claimant's former wife then sued him for half the money under their divorce agreement, and in 2018 the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled in her favour.
- For scenes where actors walked in or out of the White House, only a first-floor facade and entrance were built; computers added the second floor, the roof and the downtown DC cityscape behind them.
- The film's trailer was criticized for using the Emergency Alert System, and several cable companies were fined by the Federal Communications Commission for airing the advertisement.
