From the onset of filming, difficulties with the studio slowed the film's development and caused a rift between the director and Universal Pictures, as executives were unhappy with the film's pacing, emphasis on small scale action sequences, and the general relationship between themselves and Doug Liman, who was suspicious of direct studio involvement. A number of reshoots and rewrites late in development and scheduling problems delayed the film from its original release target date of September 2001 to June 2002 and took it $8,000,000 over budget from the initial budget of $60 million; screenwriter Tony Gilroy faxed elements of screenplay rewrites almost throughout the entire duration of filming. A particular point of contention with regard to the original Gilroy script were the scenes set in the farmhouse near the film's conclusion. Liman and Matt Damon fought to keep the scenes in the film after they were excised in a third-act rewrite that was insisted upon by the studio. Liman and Damon argued that, though the scenes were low key, they were integral to the audience's understanding of the Bourne character and the film's central themes. The farmhouse sequence consequently went through many rewrites from its original incarnation before its inclusion in the final product.
White House Down - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Laeta Kalogridis, also producer, did uncredited work on the final shooting draft.
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While on top of the elevator, Tatum's character refers to Javelin missiles as surface to air but the Javelin, while possible to be used as surface to air, is mostly used as an anti-tank missile. The U.S. military has never accounted for an aircraft being downed by a Javelin.
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Director Roland Emmerich has worked with Jake Gyllenhaal in The Day After Tomorrow (2004), and with Jake's sister Maggie Gyllenhaal in this movie.
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Initially rated PG in the Canadian province of Ontario, but the Ontario Film Review Board decided to revise the rating upward to 14A on August 21st, 2013, even though the movie had been in release for almost two months by that point.
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When the tank is getting shot at, a lock-on warning is heard. There is no lock-on on the RPG-7's or any RPG model. This fictional lock-on was added for the film.
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The movie shown in the White House's private cinema while the terrorists hide there is Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
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This is Jamie Foxx's second film with James Woods, as they previously worked on Any Given Sunday (1999) together.
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The book by author Vince Flynn, "Transfer of Power," was basis for both of the movie plots used in "White House Down," and "Olympus Has Fallen" in 2013.
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Barack Obama, who was living in the White House when the film was released, enjoyed the movie.
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The ring-tone that was heard repetitively in the film on Richard Jenkins' mobile cell phone was "Spanish Flea" as performed by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, and featured previously in the James Bond spoof movie Casino Royale (1967), also from the Columbia Pictures studio. It also is the theme of a popular TV game show called "The Dating Game".
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Tatum's T-shirt in the film is a direct homage to John McClane in Die Hard (1988).
White House Down - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
White House Down - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
White House Down - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
White House Down - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
White House Down - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
White House Down - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
White House Down - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
White House Down - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
White House Down - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
White House Down - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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