White House Down - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[carla]

Laeta Kalogridis, also producer, did uncredited work on the final shooting draft.

[russell]

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.

[kim]

Director Roland Emmerich has worked with Jake Gyllenhaal in The Day After Tomorrow (2004), and with Jake's sister Maggie Gyllenhaal in this movie.

[gabriel]

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.

[edgar]

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.

[oscar]

The movie shown in the White House's private cinema while the terrorists hide there is Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

[jessica]

This is Jamie Foxx's second film with James Woods, as they previously worked on Any Given Sunday (1999) together.

[harry]

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.

[marc]

Barack Obama, who was living in the White House when the film was released, enjoyed the movie.

[scarlett]

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".

[tom]

Tatum's T-shirt in the film is a direct homage to John McClane in Die Hard (1988).