Before the upcoming 2012, director Roland Emmerich destroyed the world through Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Day After Tomorrow, I guess if you wanna do a bit of a stretch then The Patriot was about Mel Gibson destroying soldiers of the Old World. A few years ago producer/writer Dean Devlin and Emmerich worked on the script for INDEPENDENCE DAY 2 but it didn’t work out and last year. 20th Century Fox honcho Tom Rothman told IESB that he’d love to work on the sequel but it all depends on Emmerich. But now, talking to Latino Review, Emmerich put the blame back on Fox, saying the studio is the reason why the sequel isn’t happening yet, he’s already got the story but he’s not telling you what it’s about…
Dean Devlin and I are still set to make a sequel likely because we’ve found some sort of idea and we approached FOX and FOX has not quite figured out how to incorporate Dean’s and my deal, and Will’s (Smith) deal. Will wants to do it in some sort of a package they can live with. So it’s just been in negations now since forever, and naturally FOX says “Why don’t you do it without Will Smith?” I said Will is essential for us, for this movie and actually for the audience too. And, so, it’s in limbo and lately the studios are fighting. Like gross players, and Will is a gross player and is probably the only gross player right now who’s worth his gross. So we’ll see what happens. I would love to do it.
There’s a story. There’s a very really good great story, a very cool one.
Here’s an idea… don’t work on it without FOX.
But here’s a better idea, don’t work on Independence Day sequel at all, in fact, take a break from destroying the world for a while, going on a disaster movie sabbatical wouldn’t hurt anyone. I’d rather have Will Smith focused on I Am Legend’s next installment than to work on ID4 2
Independence Day was made with a budget of $75 Million, it earned $306 Million domestically and a total of $817.4 Million worldwide
