Harvey Dent sworn in as President on Gerard Butler’s watch

Aaron Eckhart (“The Dark Knight”) will play the President of the United States in Antoine Fuqua’s “Olympus has Fallen”, says Variety.

The film stars Gerard Butler as an ex-Secret Service agent who must defend the President and his Palace from terrorists.

The Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt written picture is on the fast-track to compete with the similar-themed “White House Down”, which stars Channing Tatum.