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Jamie Foxx Could Be Sworn In As The President For WHITE HOUSE DOWN!!
The Kidd here...
It's very possible that when a paramilitary group infiltrates the White House and takes the President hostage for Roland Emmerich's WHITE HOUSE DOWN, the man in the Oval Office may wind up being Jamie Foxx.
According to Variety, Foxx is starting some discussions with Emmerich and Sony about being elected for their action tent pole that would see Channing Tatum as a Secret Service agent taking out the terrorists one by one until the President has been rescued.
DIE HARD in the White House I get... but does Jamie Foxx really need protecting at the hands of Channing Tatum? I realize Tatum is the guy you delay your movie nine months to get more of, but I find it a little hard to believe that Foxx couldn't handle his own if he had been taken hostage. Harrison Ford took on his attackers. Bill Pullman got into a jet and fought them off. Jamie Foxx needs Channing Tatum to rescue him? I'm all for the concept, but Foxx may be a bit too tough to properly fit the role... especially once everyone sees DJANGO UNCHAINED.
-Billy Donnelly
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And his daughter. But I don't think a remake of that would be in order.
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...isn't he a little young? At least a little young looking? I mean, he probably wouldn't be precedent setting as a youthful sitting President, but even Obama and Clinton started out looking older and more weathered than him.
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June 8, 2012, 12:27 a.m. CST
Is that the actual title? Can we "Congress Down" and "United Nations Down" as well...
by kenchun24
...might as well get rid of all these bought off so called "leaders" of the world. On a lighter note...I'm sure Emmerich has been dying to blow up the White House in new fantastic ways since Independence Day.
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June 8, 2012, 12:28 a.m. CST
He seems as plausible a choice for president as Bill Pullman.
by tomandshell
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June 8, 2012, 12:36 a.m. CST
Maggie Gyllenhaal's in this, too. I don't know how Nikki Finke scoops everyone and I'd almost be afraid to find out. But she
by Pvt. Duke
posted about Foxx on Wednesday, around scattered articles with headlines such as "TOLDJA!" and "RATINGS RAT RACE" and "HERE'S A 'COMEDY' VIDEO FILMED BY INSUFFERABLE WME AGENTS" and "IF ANY OF YOU BITCHES USE ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE HEADMISTRESS PHOTO, I'LL SUE YOUR ASSES BACK TO HONKYTOWN USA." I'm fascinated how someone who makes a living reporting on others can remain such an enigma when her name is on the banner.
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June 8, 2012, 1:06 a.m. CST
I actually like Emmerich, but this cast sounds toxic.
by The_Genteel_Gentile
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June 8, 2012, 1:08 a.m. CST
Enough with the black president angle, let's have Wes Studi!
by The_Genteel_Gentile
A REAL American!
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June 8, 2012, 1:15 a.m. CST
Alright this is it... Geoffrey Holder as Pennywise!
by The_Genteel_Gentile
Don't be racist, you know that would be awesome?! Too bad he's as old as Methuselah.:(
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June 8, 2012, 1:40 a.m. CST
**oops, wrong talkback - Time to cut and paste.**
by The_Genteel_Gentile
- sorry about that.
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June 8, 2012, 1:40 a.m. CST
This sounds like Air Force One for the Obama administration
by KEVIN_COSTNERS_RECYCLED_PISS
Apparently Clinton loved that movie.
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June 8, 2012, 1:45 a.m. CST
I will abide Channing Tatum no longer. Gimme one of those Hemsworth boys instead!
by The_Genteel_Gentile
Sounds like Emmerich just wants to cozy up to a sure thing.
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Where are the aliens? Monsters? Ridiculous natural disasters?
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I like Emmerich but this sounds pointless and shit.
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June 8, 2012, 6:18 a.m. CST
Hollywood really doesn't give a shit about proper casting anymore, do they?
by Knuckleduster
Jamie Foxx as the president? Channing Tatum as a secret service agent? What next? Elle Fanning as Steve Jobs?
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He will never be a bad guy like all the evil president movies we got while ole George W was in office.
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I like Foxx, but he doesn't look or sound like a president. Nothing about him projects "I'm the leader of the free world" and no amount of "acting" is going to change that. He just doesn't have it in him.
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Is anyone clamoring for another "president kicks terrorist ass" movie? I know I'm not.
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June 8, 2012, 7:24 a.m. CST
You know this is going to turn into a buddy movie at the midpoint.
by Mugato5150
"There's still one more left, Mr. President." "I gonna make him... *pumps shotgun* "... my First Bitch."
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June 8, 2012, 7:46 a.m. CST
SAY WHAT? IS THIS A MADE FOR BET MOVIE?
by big_dicks_cum_from_small_beginnings
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June 8, 2012, 8:08 a.m. CST
Roland Emmerich is simply the worst director who ever lived.
by Brian Hopper
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I dunno, but with Tatum saving the day it could be a BSB Movie. (0:'
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June 8, 2012, 8:25 a.m. CST
I concur Kidd, Channing saving Foxx's ass is a bit of an insult. as if a "Brutha" can't hold his own.
by Stalkeye
Ever saw The Kingdom when Foxx took on those terrorists, while Jason Bateman didn't really know what the fuck to do?
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June 8, 2012, 8:28 a.m. CST
Jamie Foxx is the President in I DON'T NEED CHANNING TATUM TO SAVE MY ASS.
by Mr. Pricklepants
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June 8, 2012, 8:32 a.m. CST
Emmerich's only saving grace to an extent was Universal soldier love the concept but the Film was a shitfest.
by Stalkeye
VanDamme stripping nekked throughout the Movie has no place in a Sci Fi action Film. A bad comedy? Yes. If Devlin and Emmerich was smart, they would have made a Film based on the Classic videogame; Contra. two Super Soldiers battling Aliens with tons of explosions? yes, this shit writes itself and had it been made as well as done right there would have been no need for ID4. (another POS film.) Dumb fucks.
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that in the media, all noble and wise Blacks can do NO wrong, reality to the contrary. Why not more of this shite for you sycophants to slurp up.
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- President Harrison Ford
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people like you are the reason it's like that.
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June 8, 2012, 9:44 a.m. CST
RE: "Jamie Foxx is the President in I DON'T NEED CHANNING TATUM TO SAVE MY ASS. "
by Stalkeye
Y'know, if that was the exact title of this Film, I would definately pay the price of admission. Providing of course that the film would often lampoon tatum during various situations. That would also make for a good meme whenever the studios cram Tatum in an upcoming Movie project. As if a Director needs to cast tatum to ensure that his film will be an instant success. "Fuck that, I don't Tatum to save my Ass"!
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Because we're going to have a Mormon in the Oval Office next summer. But I guess President Foxx and Senator Palmer can get in the ring and fuck each other.
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In the media, noble and wise people of whatever persuasion can do no wrong. But if you think media images don't cover gigantic amounts of negative, criminal, dysfunctional imagery of blacks, you're filtering reality rather drastically.
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"gigantic amounts" of negative imagery of blacks?? what are YOU watching? could you please list this media that portrays such negative black imagery? in fact, most television commercials in recent years portray all White men (but definitely not Black) as bumbling, juvenile fools.
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June 8, 2012, 10:18 a.m. CST
Oh fuck you Emmirich haters, ID4 was badass and you know it
by Mugato5150
You souless twats. And hansvonhammer, you're fucking delusional.
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June 8, 2012, 10:35 a.m. CST
It will be reminiscent of Airforce one but with some magic mike thrown in.
by Gore_monkey
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I mean it looks like he will barely be able to destroy one building let alone a whole city (or planet). Unless in retaliation he nukes Tehran or Pyongyang.
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Keep on smokin' that crack pipe. those delusions maybe will get you out of your mother's basement.
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All you got is Channing. That is sad.
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June 8, 2012, 3:03 p.m. CST
Foxx won't have Tatum halfway through the movie, when Tatum is down in Colombia ...
by Vince Ricardo
... and I don't just mean the country ...
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Coming Summer 2013. We can call this 2010.
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June 8, 2012, 3:57 p.m. CST
All presidents were white, (besides Morgan Freeman)post Obama all black?
by Tikidonkeypunch
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June 8, 2012, 3:57 p.m. CST
Why can't we get an Asian president. The naked asian from Hangover gets my vote.
by Tikidonkeypunch
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June 8, 2012, 5:38 p.m. CST
Gosh, how did I know Emmerich would make the President BLACK? He's not political at all......nooooooo
by IronEagle74
In fact, it seems as if every President in Hollywood is black these days. I wonder why? Hmmmmm....... Geez, not that I have a problem with a black President, but that's all we get in movies these days. These are fictional movies. The President doesn't have to be black every time because the current President in black.
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June 8, 2012, 5:40 p.m. CST
@ashmcq, sadly you're right. Not a single good, young actor in America anymore.
by IronEagle74
That's because acting(and story telling) doesn't matter now. All that matters is CGI and 3D.
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June 8, 2012, 5:43 p.m. CST
I wonder, after Obama's Marxist/socialist ass is voted out, will Hollywood stop making movies about Presidents?
by IronEagle74
Just asking.
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June 8, 2012, 7:20 p.m. CST
President Tubbs. If it isn't going to be Channing Tatum, who is it going to be? ROLL CALL!
by Gus
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June 8, 2012, 7:22 p.m. CST
GET OFF MY PLANE! The VFX when Air Force crashes are TERRIBLE!!! Also, what is up with the UPSIDE DOWN PLANE in that Zemeckis trailer?
by Gus
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Pre-Obama were white. Anyone who didn't complain about that is an amazing hypocrite to complain about black presidents now.
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Just watched "Super" today. About fifteen black drug dealers and rapists, one nice guy. You're seeing what you want to see. The proportion of positive to negative black images is no higher than that of whites, and you guys play heroes far more often, and get ALL the sex in movies earning over 100 million domestic...you got nothing to complain about. Man, if you were black you'd HATE white people. What thin skin.
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Re-election propaganda paid for by Hollywood. We love to worship these guys; look at all the temples we built for these men. Notice the British never did this with their monarchs. We created a mythology around Presidents like the cherry tree tale and we had state worship shoved down our throats by the school system. When I was a child, they were teaching the cherry tree fable like it was a fucking stone cold fact. Be mindful of personality cults, they're a sign of tyranny. Sad truth of the matter is that congressmen and presidents alike are empty suits. They're fundraisers, spending most of their time in office working on their re-election campaign while special interest groups and staff create the policy and laws. People who elected Obama based on his skin color to win one for the black man probably had the right idea all along. There's no substance among any of the suits anymore. Vote for the community organizer because we just never had a black guy up there rubberstamping tyranny before. That is exactly all your vote gets. Emmerich wants a secular, liberal emperor to worship...like with ID4 with Super Bill Clinton democrat leading a fighter jet squadron against aliens. Wish fulfillment, he wants his King Arthur.
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The Brits don't celebrate their monarchs? Did you watch them bring their country to a standstill to celebrate the Queen? Ever read any Shakespeare? Pure ass-kissing of the ruling class. Do we believe the Prez is ordained by God? Enshrine them for life? Jeeze, man, what we do with Presidents is NOTHING compared to what the Brits do.
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most people here couldn't if you asked them to be honest. any excuse for a party is all it is... in fact, it mean that because of the extra days off i had to work twice as hard the week before and twice as hard this week to make up for it and we still didn't get some of our orders out on time to customers. queenie's fucked our shit right up. i'm wondering why there hasn't been a female president yet... we got a female pm in the 70s, after all. there's far more women in america than there are black people yet everyone's concerned about getting a black guy into office. sorry, not black, he's mixed race -- i actually hate the idea people think this well to do mixed race man brought up by white people in hawaii is somehow representative of 'black people in america'
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no mention of densel washington??? it's the role he was born to play.
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The Man, James Earl Jones.
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Sure Obama is representative of black people in America. Every one of us has a unique circumstance. Obama has his. Tell you this: this is the first President who's hand I've shaken, I know people who went to school with him, and at least five or six who's met him. I never knew ANYONE who knew a white President. Impossible for me not to think that that is because he is black, and far closer to my life situation than any white man in the history of the office. No one, and nothing, can take that away from me.
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But Obama kicked her ass on the campaign trail. Oh, well...
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Although, I kind of wish the other Die Hard in the White House movie was a crazy over the top violently satirical version, with a Mitt Romney-esque rich white big business/corporation tool President, directed by Verhoeven. Make it meta, with an actor playing Tom Cruise as if Tom Cruise became the first Scientologist President. That'd be a totally bonkers action flick.
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Obama era movie, hispanic (?) president. Oh, and you better get ready for four more years as Romney will NEVER be president.
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June 10, 2012, 4:41 p.m. CST
In 2013, you'll have to go to a movie to see a black president.
by TheyPeedOnYourFuckingRug
So thanks for stepping up, Hollywood.
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Foxx in an action movie as the victim doesn't fit to me. I know Barack is still gonna be in the White House, so they're trying to link it. But come on it doesn't fit to me.
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