{"id":20239,"date":"2012-05-14T19:19:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T00:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=20239"},"modified":"2021-02-05T14:19:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T19:19:49","slug":"channing-tatum-in-talks-for-white-house-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/14\/channing-tatum-in-talks-for-white-house-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Channing Tatum In Talks For WHITE HOUSE DOWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ChanningTatum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" \/>Channing Tatum may be saving the President of the United States and the White House. The <strong>21 Jump Street<\/strong> actor is currently in negotiations with Columbia to headline their action-thriller <strong>White House Down<\/strong>. Tatum will star as a Secret Service agent who finds himself trying to protect the President during a terrorist attack on the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The studio and director Roland Emmerich are in a race to get the project to the screen before Mellinium&#8217;s similarly-themed terrrorists-attack-the-White House film <strong>Olympus Has Fallen<\/strong>, which currently has Gerard Butler and Antoine Fuqua attached to star and direct.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the draft of James Vanderbilt&#8217;s script that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/26\/script-review-white-house-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I&#8217;ve read<\/a> had a tone that recalls the original <strong>Die Hard<\/strong> and that leads me to ask, &#8220;Is Channing Tatum really the guy for this role?&#8221; Now I have to admit that I missed Tatum&#8217;s last movie, <strong>21 Jump Street<\/strong>, which may just be the best indicator if he can handle the role. Hopefully he has the chops for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120518021054\/http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com:80\/heat-vision\/channing-tatum-white-house-down-324079?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Is he the Bruce Willis needed for this film described as &#8220;DIE HARD in the White House&#8221;?<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/14\/channing-tatum-in-talks-for-white-house-down\/\" title=\"Channing Tatum In Talks For WHITE HOUSE DOWN\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[441,1928,2191,5002],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-channing-tatum","8":"tag-james-vanderbilt","9":"tag-roland-emmerich","10":"tag-white-house-down"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20239"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=20239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}