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.

上周有消息称，索尼电影公司已经购买了詹姆斯·范德比尔特（《超凡蜘蛛侠》的编剧）的新剧本《白宫陷落》（White House Down），新消息表明，这部和《虎胆龙威》，《空军一号》比肩的新电影将有可能争取到罗兰·艾默里奇的加盟执导。

《白宫陷落》讲述的是一支准军事部队挟持白宫的故事，导演艾默里奇因灾难电影《独立日》、《2012》和《后天》的大卖而广为人知。在《白宫陷落》从天而降之前，艾默里奇和他的制片人搭档哈洛德·克卢瑟一直在忙于筹措2013年新片《奇点》，但现在《白宫陷落》已经排在《奇点》之前，成为了他们手中的第一要务。除上两部电影之外，拍摄《独立日》的续集计划也一直没有被罗兰彻底搁置。

编剧范德比尔特最近也是异常忙碌，不仅之前完成了《超凡蜘蛛侠》的剧本，还在着手《红色侦程》（Red Riding）的改编。另外，已经有很高呼声的《机械战警》（2013）的剧本也在他的打磨之中。