Deadline is reporting that Maggie Gyllenhaal has joined the cast of the new Roland Emmerich movie White House Down. She joins a cast that already includes Channing Tatum as a secret service agent who tries to save the president when the White House is attacked. Jamie Foxx is also in talks to play the POTUS (President Of The United States).
Shooting is scheduled to begin this August from a script by James Vanderbilt, screenwriter of The Amazing Spider-Man and the upcoming reboot of Robocop.
Basically this just sounds like Die Hard in the White House with Channing Tatum and his abs playing the John McClane role. And it’s directed by the man responsible for destroying cities in Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow, and 2012. This tells me two things: 1) the White House will get blown up by movies end and 2) this movie will most likely suck despite having an impressive cast.
