Action movie star Gerard Butler has offered some insight into the development of Angel Has Fallen sequel, Night Has Fallen. Speaking with Comicbook.com, Butler revealed that there are still plans in place to bring back Fallen lead Secret Service Agent Mike Banning for another explosive adventure, but it might take a little while before it lands in theaters.

Teasing the “fun” idea that they have in store for Night Has Fallen, Butler revealed a slight change in career trajectory for himself – becoming the Tom Hanks of action movies. Wanting instead to play the everyman who has to overcome their fears and leap into action rather than the skilled, accomplished action man, Butler is looking for some time away from the capable Branning. And so, according to Butler, is the world.

“We have a script for that, but I haven’t been working on it at the moment. We have a really fun idea, it just needs to be to be developed. But it’s been fun recently, making action. I will say — I want to play more the Tom Hanks of action movies. Let me take a break from the Mike Banning, where it’s literally seven or eight full-on fight sequences in every movie, fistfights. And actually claiming the characters that are real, who have to pull something extraordinary out of themselves that an audience can really identify with because that’s what we need right now.”

Plot details for Night Has Fallen are currently being kept under wraps, but we do know that director Ric Roman Waugh and screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen will return alongside Butler.

“We need, in a way, real heroes. Life is tough, it’s a bit of an escape and I think to go and see movies like this and put yourself in those kind of hellish challenging scenarios and then be able to walk back out again, but maybe take some ideas from, or just some inspiration from it and have had a lot of fun, is cool. It’s great to make those movies that are an escape.”

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Gerard Butler Will Next Demonstrate His Particular Set of Action Skills in Plane

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Before returning to the role of the unstoppable Mike Banning in Night Has Fallen, Gerard Butler will begin his journey as the Tom Hanks of action movies with Plane. Described as a “white-knuckle action movie,” Plane follows Butler as pilot Brodie Torrance, who saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island — only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI. In order to rescue the passengers, Torrance will need Gaspare’s help, and will learn there’s more to Gaspare than meets the eye.

Directed by Assault on Precinct 13 and Blood Father’s Jean-François Richet and written by Charles Cumming and J. P. Davis, Plane stars Mike Colter (Luke Cage), Daniella Pineda (Jurassic World Dominion), Yoson An (Mulan), Remi Adeleke (Transformers: The Last Knight), Haleigh Hekking (Action Royale), Lilly Krug (Every Breath You Take), Joey Slotnick (The Blacklist), Oliver Trevena (While We Sleep), and newcomer Kelly Gale alongside Butler.

Plane is scheduled to be released on January 13, 2023.