Sony only bought the screenplay for White House Down a couple of months ago, but they’ve already attached Roland Emmerich to direct and are moving fast to get the film in cinemas as quickly as possible. Now they’re starting to cast the movie, with Variety reporting that Jamie Foxx is being eyed to play the president in the film.

The story is described as Die Hard set in the White House, concentrating on a paramilitary takeover of the President’s official residence. Not too many other details about the script are known, except that Channing Tatum is set to play a Secret Service agent who leaps into action to protect the Commander In Chief.

Foxx is yet to receive an offer for the movie, but Emmerich is very keen on him and it’s thought the actor is open to the movie.

While Batman and Superman have had numerous movies, it’s slightly odd that the character who is probably DC’s other biggest propety has never lit up the big screen. However now it appears the company is once more looking to adapt Wonder Woman for a cinematic outing.

The news comes in a Variety report about DC’s plans for a Justice League movie (which we reported on yesterday), which drops in the info that Michael Goldenberg has been hired to write a Wonder Woman script. There’s no news on the direction the film might take or if it will specifically be linked into the plans for Justice League.

Part of the problem with Wonder Woman is that some elements of it may potentially seem a bit silly for the big screen, such as her invisible plane, Amazon origins and how her abilities work. There’s also the fact Hollywood is still shy about female action heroes. However with such a long-standing, popular character, they should be able to overcome that, and perhaps Goldenberg, who’s co-wrote Green Lantern, is the man to do it.

The Variety report also mentions that Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green are still hard at work on a Flash screenplay for Greg Berlanti to possibly direct. And of course, after Chris Nolan finishes his Batman trilogy, it’s likely DC will look to reboot that character. It certainly seems the company has realised how far it is behind the curveball compared to Marvel and is doing something about it.

A Steve Jobs biopic, simply titled Jobs, is already shooting, but it’s still adding to its cast, as THR reports that Matthew Modine has joined the movie, playing John Sculley, who Jobs recruited to lead Apple in 1983 and famously ‘fired’ the co-founder of the company two years later. Sculley remained as Apple CEO from 1983 to 1993.

Modine comments, “It’s my feeling – and I think there’s a lot of people who feel – that had John Sculley not fired Steve Jobs from Apple Computers and [let] Steve go on the journey that he did when he was away from Apple Computers, that we wouldn’t be speaking about Steve Jobs today.”

Ashton Kutcher is playing Jobs himself, with the film tracing the man’s story from the 1970s through to the 21st Century. Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote) directs, with Josh Gad starring as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. It’s due out this autumn, rushing into cinemas to get a good head start on a rival, slightly more official Jobs film, which is based on the acclaimed biography by Walter Isaacson and with a screenplay by The Social Network Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin.