'Olympus Has Fallen' goes straight for the kill by bringing in the great Morgan Freeman (who has played presidents and gods), but don't discount 'White House Down's casting of the amazing Richard Jenkins. Here, 'Olympus Has Fallen' and 'White House Down' both follow a similar instinct - if you're going to cast a rugged movie star as the President, you should grab someone with gravitas for the Speaker of the House. But since the Vice President is always the one who dies first to prove how serious the bad guys are in White House siege movies, we usually get to see a lot of the third heartbeat away from the presidency: the Speaker of the House. Should the President fail in his duties, the line of succession dictates that the Vice President should take up the reins of the nation.
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