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EXCLUSIVE: Roland Emmerich is in talks to next direct White House Down, the James Vanderbilt-scripted action drama. Sony Pictures paid $3 million when Vanderbilt and his Mythology Entertainment partners brought the spec script to market last week. The film focuses on a paramilitary takeover of the White House and was compared to Die Hard when it fetched the highest sum for a spec script so far this year for Vanderbilt, who scripted The Amazing Spider-Man for Sony and is working on the sequel to the Marc Webb-directed 3D film that stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone.
Emmerich and his producing partner Harald Kloser will join Mythology Entertainment partners Bradley Fischer, Vanderbilt, and Laeta Kalogridis to produce the film. It will be his next project as director, and production is slated to begin in the fall. Emmerich will follow White House Down with Singularity, which remains a priority project at Columbia Pictures. Kloser is also a producer of Singularity. Vanderbilt’s script work includes Zodiac, he’s adapting Red Riding for Steve Zaillian’s Film Rites and Ridley Scott, and is doing a production rewrite on Robocop. Emmerich is repped by CAA.
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Roland always loved that old script ANTHEM (DIE HARD in the White House) that Will Smith was going to do for him and Dean after ID4, so this seems logical…
Any truth to the rumor Robert Redford’s reprising his role as Martin Bishop (from SNEAKERS) to play the villain in WHITE HOUSE DOWN? It’d be the fucking bomb to see Ben Kingsley, as Kosmo, take him down in a surprise cameo.
Can we see a giant alien ufo blow up the White House?
That would be awesome totally awesome.
So, with Emmerich at the helm, I guess the big question is whether the White House will be destroyed by an earthquake, tsunami, hurricane, ice, or Republicans?
Putting Emmerich on this… a $3M spec… reminds me of Renny Harlin wrecking Shane’s Long Kiss Goodnight etc. etc. More schlock.
This project just lost steam…
Sony is obviously trying to beat Millenium’s “Olympus is Down” to the punch, which sold just earlier and has the EXACT SAME premise from what I’ve heard.
Saw this “Die Hard in the White House” the last (or 2nd to last) Season of “24″ — and everybody saw “Die Hard” — this seems like “Air Force One” in a House instead of a plane.
Millenium must be kind of pissed. I wonder if they have grounds for a lawsuit. Prolly not would be my guess.
I know this sounds like nit-picking, but is it really that difficult to type “probably” rather than “prolly”? It’s a big pet peeve of mine and the English language suffers enough bastardization thanks to the texting generation.
@Tim W. I concurr.
JP spells it that way because that’s the way he pronounces it (and texts it).
i hope jp keeps talking and writing that way. slang is a legitimate form of communication.
You’re so dumb it hurts me. Quit pretending to know what you’re talking about. Either that or go back to your corner office on the lot. Cuz only a high up exec or a teenager in his parent’s Iowa basement would post something this inane.
i need more . I want see “DIE HARD” in toailet room.
So it’s basically Air Force One but on the ground where the stakes are much lower…? Credit to Vanderbilt for selling a spec for $3m in these frugal times, but c’mon this sounds like a potboiler.
Okay. But if by “potboiler” you mean “straight-up escapist genre fare of the kind Hollywood was pretty much built on,” well, where’s the harm in that?
We have a giant ‘White House’ set in Toronto.
This will be huge.
Yeah a huge flop… Die Hard had the 80′s, McTiernan and an iconic action star named Bruce Willis going for it. We have the Rock and Straitham and an MBA driven studio system.
You do realize Bruce Willis wasn’t actually an action star BEFORE “Die Hard”, right?
Someone should do “DIE HARD” in a high rise.
-RnsW
(That’s for you, De Souza!)
De Souza, huh? That’s funny, cuz the guy who gets forgotten is these kinds of discussions in the one who fucking INVENTED the whole “Die Hard in –” genre, Rod Thorpe. He’s the author of the original novel “Die Hard” was based on — called “Nobody Lives Forever” — and which the McTiernan movie follows pretty faithfully.
That would be “Nothing Lasts Forever” written as a sequel to “The Detective” but I hear ya, Roderick Thorpe is the creative force behind “Die Hard” and has somehow been lost in all the Hollywood bullshit.
Jeb Stuart was hired by Fox to adapt the novel into a screenplay. De Souza came in later.
I hear ya: Jesus. Egg on my face right now cuz you’re right, I was off on the title, but I did read the book almost 25 years ago (although it was published in the late 1970s) and remember it as being very inventive and exciting.
Don’t forget Walter Wager who wrote “58 Minutes” the novel the second Die Hard was adapted from it was never intended to be Die Hard 2 but it was so perfect that they decided to make it as Die Harder.
It was an inside joke regarding the Vanity Fair article on Die Hard. You missed the point.
Check it out.
-RnsW
was hoping for an anonymous sequel :’(
All of it was inspired by ‘The Towering Inferno’ and McTiernan acknowledged as much during press on ‘Die Hard’.
See, that’s what’s so infuriating, disco, because while certain sequences may have been reminiscent of THE TOWERING INFERNO, the main storyline and central (and now iconic) situation came directly from Rod Thorpe’s novel. Go get a used copy off ebay and see for yourself. It’s all in there. Despite what McTiernan may have said during the junkets.
Based on that picture of Roland, anyone else think Fred Armisen should play Roland Emmerich in a featurette about the making of WHITE HOUSE DOWN…?
Now that’s a movie I’d pay to see.
nice mr roland am in ghana so thy to help each other
So what…. Sony cancel Singularity and instead of just paying Emmerich his (no doubt sizeable) directing fee via a ‘pay or play’ deal they want to ‘transfer’ it this project instead.
Smart bit of business…. providing that Roland ‘falls’ for it.
24 already did this…but thanks anyway!