The battle of the rival movies about the White House being taken over by terrorisst has started, with the first images from White House Down arriving via EW (and scanned by the fine folks at HeyUGuys).

Roland Emmerich directs the film, which is about a young Secret Service agent (Channing Tatum) who gets put to the ultimate test when a paramilitary group invades the White House and takes everyone hostage. Jamie Foxx, James Woods and Maggie Gyllenhaal also star.

The film will be going up against Olympus Has Fallen, which has a broadly similar plot, but has Antoine Fuqua directing, with Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman starring. That movie is trying to get a jump on White House Down, with a spring release, while Emmerich’s movie hits US cinemas in June and is currently scheduled to hit the UK in September.

Sony’s plans to get White House Down into production as quickly as possible continue apace, as just yesterday we reported Jamie Foxx was in talks to join Channing Tatum in the movie, and now Maggie Gyllenhaal has joined the steadily growing cast of director Roland Emmerich’s film.

The movie is about a paramilitary group that takes the White House hostage. Jamie Foxx is in talks to play the President, while Channing Tatum is portraying a Secret Service agent who tries to stop the takeover. Maggie Gyllenhaal will play another Secret Service agent, who is assigned to protect the President.

Roland Emmerich is directing from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man). It’s believed it will shoot later this summer. (Source: Deadline)