This is the President’s convoy and as it lands on the White House lawn, we get our first glimpse of Jamie Foxx’s President James Sawyer with Maggie Gyllenhaal as his head of Secret Service at his side. It opens with a group of helicopters flying towards the White House. (The teaser opens with a great Abraham Lincoln quote which is cut in a way that makes it feel like the normal text we might seen in a teaser trailer.) Foxx amused the fans with his Obama impression while stressing that he is not playing President Obama in the movie.īut let’s get to the eight minutes of footage which, unlike the trailer, won’t be online anytime soon. They answered a few questions and showed the teaser trailer (which you can watch below) with one major noticeable difference being that this attack comes from within with Tatum and Emmerich likening it more to a coup then a foreign invasion, Tatum drawing parallels to the way the country is currently split between Red and Blue States.

In order to show their hand, Sony threw an official launch party to give a couple hundred lucky fans the first look at the trailer and eight minutes of footage, with Jamie Foxx and director Roland Emmerich on hand at New York’s Regal Union Square and Tatum piped in via satellite from London.

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