Hasn’t the White House suffered enough at the hands of Roland Emmerich? He destroyed it in Independence Day and damaged it again in 2012. So you would think he’d had enough of troubling one of the most famous addresses in the world. But no, now he’s in talks to direct the hot action drama spec script White House Down.

Sony picked up the title last week from Amazing Spider-Man writer James Vanderbilt. After shoving a piece of paper with $3 million written on it across a negotiating table in a winning bid, the studio quickly began to lock in a director.

Emmerich certainly knows how to orchestrate action, even if his tastes tend towards the mega-destructive side rather than the more focused beats of something that has been described as Die Hard Meets Air Force One. The plot details are currently still being kept secret but, let’s be honest, you can probably figure out most of it from the references. From the sounds of it, Emmerich is all but locked in, and expects to be shooting the movie in the autumn. Pyrotechnic and CG teams are already rubbing their hands together in glee.

Vanderbilt is in demand at the moment. He’s developing a Spider-Man sequel and has been working on Sony’s adaptation of Red Riding. And he’s also polishing the Robocop script for Jose Padilha.

上周有消息稱，索尼電影公司已經(jīng)購買了詹姆斯·范德比爾特（《超凡蜘蛛俠》的編?。┑男聞”尽栋讓m陷落》（White House Down），新消息表明，這部和《虎膽龍威》，《空軍一號(hào)》比肩的新電影將有可能爭(zhēng)取到羅蘭·艾默里奇的加盟執(zhí)導(dǎo)。

《白宮陷落》講述的是一支準(zhǔn)軍事部隊(duì)挾持白宮的故事，導(dǎo)演艾默里奇因?yàn)?zāi)難電影《獨(dú)立日》、《2012》和《后天》的大賣而廣為人知。在《白宮陷落》從天而降之前，艾默里奇和他的制片人搭檔哈洛德·克盧瑟一直在忙于籌措2013年新片《奇點(diǎn)》，但現(xiàn)在《白宮陷落》已經(jīng)排在《奇點(diǎn)》之前，成為了他們手中的第一要?jiǎng)?wù)。除上兩部電影之外，拍攝《獨(dú)立日》的續(xù)集計(jì)劃也一直沒有被羅蘭徹底擱置。

編劇范德比爾特最近也是異常忙碌，不僅之前完成了《超凡蜘蛛俠》的劇本，還在著手《紅色偵程》（Red Riding）的改編。另外，已經(jīng)有很高呼聲的《機(jī)械戰(zhàn)警》（2013）的劇本也在他的打磨之中。