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Angela Bassett will play Secret Service director Lynne Jacobs in Olympus Has Fallen. She joins Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart in the White House action drama. Olympus Has Fallen sees the president (Eckhart) and key members of his administration taken hostage, and a Secret Service agent (Butler) tries to stop the plot. Antoine Fuqua is directing. Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt wrote the script. Mark Gill, Alan Siegel and Butler are producing the Millennium Films project. Avi Lerner and Trevor Short are executive producing. The film begins shooting early next month. Bassett is repped by Gersh and Lighthouse Entertainment.
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Isn’t Angela TIRED of playing the same role over and over again. She’s always some agent or director of security or some government agency bullshit. She’s so talented. Where are the REAL roles for her?
She is her own worst enemy.
She should fire her reps— all of them.
I agree, but hopefully working with Antoine Fuqua she will get a more challenging role this time. I understand the script for this film is a good one.
Yes, Kristi – I know what you mean. She’s an amazing onscreen presence and her talented is wasted far too often. But maybe this role is bigger than we think – fingers crossed!
Exciting! WHO is going to play the president’s son? I hope they stick with a younger child… and NOT some teenager. Needs to be a sweet, cute and vulnerable boy! One that gets the audience enthralled and can pull on the heartstrings .. not a teenager. Will be interesting to see who gets cast and who White House Down casts as the kid too!
I must concur. While it is ALWAYS exciting to see Angela Bassett I must say that she does these “agency director” roles a lot. I had the pleasure of seeing her on broadway in The Mountaintop and she was electrifying. She’s capable of so much more than what she gets in Hollywood but then again she’s a 50+ black actress, and alluded to roles being tough to come by in the press for the show.
I am so glad that I wasn’t the only one who immediately thought: “Hooray, another job of portraying a mid-level government bureaucrat! Great job, Angela!”
I liked it the first time when it was called Air Force One!