Back at Comic-Con ‘09, when asked why he always destroys planet earth on big screen, director Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow, 2012) said he loved earth, that’s why he wanted to destroy it. Emmerich previously said that producer/writer Dean Devlin and he had come up with a story for INDEPENDENCE DAY 2 and it will involve Will Smith but every deal that had anything to do with the sequel was in a limbo. Emmerich told MTV recently that now he wants not just one, but 2 sequels to INDEPENDENCE DAY…
“What we want to do in the next – it’s actually two movies – we want to do a bigger arc,”
“‘Independence Day’ was always like the king who leads his troops into battle against an evil force, and that stays like that.”
“‘ID4-ever,’ Part I and II maybe?”
“The idea is just to continue the story and actually I don’t know how many years ago this was—twelve, thirteen, fourteen years ago—and just continue where it ended.”
“one day we will do it and that the story will stay firmly on the planet. “It’s always about earth and that earth gets invaded,”
In the words of Will Smith… Aw Hell Naw!
The first movie was iconic because the sight of the White House getting blown up by a freakishly large spaceship was unprecedented, what kind of wow factor would two sequels be able to offer to top such a lasting impression?! Besides, how many times can earth be invaded by the same damn aliens or even new ones?! Is planet earth some kind of shooting range/target practice for these creatures? I mean what the hell!
Is 20th Century Fox even going to entertain this crazy idea and fund the project? Wait, let me take that back, after all it is the studio behind the supposed $500 Million AVATAR!
Maybe Emmerich heard Guillermo Del Toro is making THE HOBBIT part I and II and that Harry Potter 7 will also come in Part I and II that all of a sudden it went into that stubborn German skull of his that he might be able to do something similar.
13 years ago, Independence Day was made with a budget of $75 Million, it earned $306 Million domestically and a total of $817.4 Million worldwide
