James Vanderbilt wrote the script that sees a paramilitary takeover of The White House. Channing Tatum will star as a single father and Secret Service agent.
Maggie Gyllenhaal would play a fellow Secret Service agent. Jamie Foxx is set to play the president of the United States in the film. James Woods is in talks to play the head of the Secret Service. Joey King will play Tatum's young daughter. Jason Clarke will play Stenz, the leader of the mercenaries. Lance Reddick will play Colonel Janowitz, who serves as the handle for the Speaker of the House (Richard Jenkins) who trails the Vice President (Michael Murphy) in America's presidential line of succession. Garcelle Beauvais is the First Lady.Rachelle Lefevre will play the ex-wife of Tatum.
Sony Pictures paid $3 million for the script, the highest amount for a spec script sale so far this year.
Roland Emmerich directs.
Emmerich, Vanderbilt, Harald Kloser, Bradley Fischer and Laeta Kalogridis will produce.
Production is underway in Montreal.
HeyUGuys has posted scans from the magazine of those stills. Here are three.
In the third shot Tatun looks a lot like Bruce Willis did in the first Die Hard back in 1988
Film District will release a rival action thriller "Olympus Has Fallen" nationwide on April 5, 2013.-- nearly three months before White House Down on June 28, 2013.
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