Yet Another Olympus Has Fallen Sequel Is Coming Because Gerard Butler Is Invincible

When in doubt, make more movies about people repeatedly trying and failing to kill a character played by Gerard Butler. That seems to be a winning formula, as a fourth Has Fallen movie starring the actor is in development. What started with Olympus Has Fallen in 2013 has become a very successful franchise of films, each one seemingly trying harder to kill secret service agent Mike Banning (Butler).

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the next film in the series will be titled Night Has Fallen. In it, Butler will once more team with director Ric Roman Waugh, who helmed the franchise's third entry, Angel Has Fallen. That movie's screenwriter, Robert Mark Kamen, is also returning for Night Has Fallen.

It remains to be seen exactly what kind of situation Banning will find himself in for the next movie. However, the last movie introduced Nick Nolte as the character's estranged father, teaming the two up. Hopefully, he returns for this film, as well.

While the Has Fallen films might not immediately spring to mind when thinking about the most successful action movie franchises, the first three movies combined have made over $500,000,000 at the box office, proving there's certainly an audience that wants to see more of Butler defying death time and again. Here's hoping there are still plenty more movies to come.

A release date for Night Has Fallen has yet to be announced.