Roland Emmerich Reveals Some Juicy Independence Day Sequels Details
Damn aliens just won’t leave us alone.
It seems that every time director Roland Emmerich has a new movie coming out and he starts doing the promo rounds for it (he’s got “White House Down” in a few months), people start peppering him with “Independence Day” sequel questions.
From the sounds of it, Emmerich really wants to do two “Independence Day” sequels, and he reveals he’s already written the script with original writer/producer Dean Devlin, and has now given both scripts to “White House Down” screenwriter James Vanderbilt to rewrite.
So what would the sequels (to be called “ID Forever Part 1″ and “ID Forever Part 2″ — no, really, that’s the title he’s going with) be about? Emmerich reveals to EW:
The films take place 20 years after the original, when a distress call sent by the first wave of aliens finally brings reinforcements to Earth. ”The humans knew that one day the aliens would come back,” explains the directo… ”And they know that the only way you can really travel in space is through wormholes. So for the aliens, it could take two or three weeks, but for us that’s 20 or 25 years.”
Huh, I don’t know if that’s the ONLY way you can travel through space (I mean, it is sci-fi, right?), but okay, let’s go with that.
So what else, Roland?
It’s a changed world. It’s like parallel history. [Humans] have harnessed all this alien technology. We don’t know how to duplicate it because it’s organically-grown technology, but we know how to take an antigravity device and put it in a human airplane. It’s still some of the same characters, but also new younger characters; it’s a little bit like the sons take over. The first one ends on a little success, but only enough to give the humans hope. And then in the second one they free themselves again [from the aliens].
Yup, sounds like he’s definitely been thinking about it.
Considering the gazillion dollars the first movie made (especially for 1996 dollars), it’s amazing that sequels haven’t gotten made yet. The problem, I think, is Will Smith. If he wants to do this, it’ll get done tomorrow. The fact that nothing has gotten done yet, I suspect is because Smith has yet to say Yes.
