Antoine Fuqua and Roland Emmerich Swap Notes on ‘White House Down’ and ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ at Comic-Con

Roland Emmerich and Antoine Fuqua may have each helmed a dueling White House invasion movie in 2013, but it was all love between them at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday.

Collider brought two of the most successful action directors of all time together in Hall H to discuss their work in a panel moderated by Steven Weintraub.

“Right before shooting, maybe a month before, I learned he was shooting another one that was called ‘Olympus Has Fallen,’” Emmerich said — revealing he actually watched Fuqua’s film on a plane. “I thought, this is such a better title than ‘White House Down.’”

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