But, Roland Emmerich has gone on to produce bigger and not as good disaster p*rn movies like The Day After Tomorrow and 2012. While those movies are enjoyable, it's purely for the spectacle and effects, not for the storyline itself.
Now, he's planning on doing not one, but two 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…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.”While he said that back in November, it's now coming out that Will Smith has signed on so these will actually get some forward motion.
I'm half-hoping these get stalled again, I'd rather he go back to making that 2012 TV show instead of messing up a great movie with unnecessary sequels.
For more information on the project, check out Gordon And The Whale.
I've heard rumors about this for a few years too. I gotta admit: part of me is really excited to get Will Smith (and hopefully Jeff Goldblum) back into alien-fighting mode, complete with Emmerich's over-the-top awesome effects (maybe Bill Pullman could come back as the ex-president, who has still has a few killer speeches left in him!). On the other hand, two sequels sounds kind of unnecessary. Actually, a sequel in general sounds far-fetched to me. I can't picture where they could take the story and not make it be derivative of the first film (will the aliens come back for revenge this time??). It might be best to leave the original as a fun, self-contained film and have Will Smith move on to other projects.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's a major thing for me. What will the story be for these sequels? Do more aliens come? I just don't see where it's going to go.
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