Roland Emmerich Talks Independence Day Sequel! Stalled by Fox
Latino Review recently spoke with director Roland Emmerich about the possibilities for a sequel to the 1996 summer blockbuster megahit Independence Day.
According to our latino pals, Robert Sanchez, got the news for IESB last year when talking to Fox chairman Tom Rothman who said it was basically up to Roland Emmerich.
“We would love to do it, it’s really a matter of Roland, it’s up to Roland. He knows that we’d love to do it. I don’t think there is a script but there have been a lot of ideas, but the truth of the matter is he’s been making other films. He made “Day After Tomorrow” for us, big hit movie, he’s doing “2012″ for Sony. But, any day that Roland wanted to do that, we would be very excited to do it because I think, yes, that story definitely can and should continue.”
Roland’s recent conversation with LR seems to be the opposite saying that the sequel has actually been stalled by Fox due to issues of gross players and keeping essential people involved in the project – basically money.
“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.”
In the rest of the article which isn’t much, Emmerich, confirms there is a story already for the sequel and that it is “cool”. Read the rest of the article to find out what a “gross player” is, LR gives a great explanation.
I am down with this and after watching District 9 I wondered how interesting a sequel to ID4 would be. I have some story ideas but none I’d care to mention in this post. Let’s just say they are both on 2 very opposite sides of the spectrum but easily workable. I just hope they don’t take the vengeful alien baddie route for the sequel. I will be curious also with the success of District 9 and the hype of 2012 that Fox won’t try to reconvene to see about coming to terms for a sequel.
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