Roland Emmerich Discusses Independence Day Sequel

this is a little late, that would have been cool about 5 years ago when this was hot lol. what next a sequel to wild wild west? LOL. Independence day was great because it took place and was shown on the 4th, it brought in military people to see it just because of that wich is why it made money, great product placement. how they can repeat that is beyond me and independence day was at least a better movie than the terrible movie reboot of superman emp.

Vital...I'm cooler then the other side of the pillow dude, I just have no love for film rapist's like Devlin and Emmerich. That being said, Independence Day was a guilty pleasure...2012, insult to the intelligence.

dumb idea

I bet you it will be something like 10 years later on Independence Day lol.

I've all ways wanted to see a second film of this. Will and Jeff are a good mix, but Will is on a high in serious films.
He needs to finish some franchises then move on but he won't, he's an intelligent idiot.

Most likely we would just kick their asses out of our country though, before they got the first words out of their mouths.

Escapist: "You CAN'T sequelize it. Why? Ahem, well it is called INDEPENDENCE DAY. Day meaning single, only happening once. Making it happen twice wouldn't make it a day. It loses the meaning of ''Independence'' and ''Day''."

Escapist, if you think that that's what Independence Day means, it doesn't. Were you confused into thinking it's meant to be read "Independent Day", as in independent from any other days to be considered a day of independence?

An Independence Day can occur any time we defend our right to live without the control or influence of any entity or governing hierarchy, we feel is oppressing us or does not serve or look out for our best interest. If for some unbelievable reason, a foreign entity came here and tried to rule us, we would declare our independence from them.

I liked the movie a lot. It's one of the best sci movies around. I don't know how they could make this a sequel though, especially without the main characters, and then add the whole Independence Day dilemma (they attack on the same day again?) I don't get it lol.

Yahzee. I can make better? Why don't I? Because I have a job, an apartment and am writing to get there. The movie was fun, but not great. So no, we are note posting "hate comments".

Independence day, ehhhhhh
Not a big fan so really dont care if they make a sequel cause I aint gonna see it.

You CAN'T sequelize it. Why? Ahem, well it is called INDEPENDENCE DAY. Day meaning single, only happening once. Making it happen twice wouldn't make it a day. It loses the meaning of ''Independence'' and ''Day''.

This are just tipycal hate comments people post Chad. It's because being critic, and a bad one, it's easier than make something good. I mean if people can do better, why don't they do it instead of trashing everything? And in the end these same people are still watching this movies.

I'm still a fan of Independence Day. Nothing I would buy, but the movie just gets a bad rap,and it's even worse where you got a now tarnished director, Emmerich.

maybe the aliens have switched to apple macs and become immune to goldblum's conveniently universal computer virus.

I never thought Independence Day was so looked down upon by moviegoers lol. I'm actually surprised.

I can't really express my feelings about this so I'm just going to say:

Fuck.

At Marcus...damn...the way you started that plot I figured that turkey jumping at him would actually be hugged to his face for some hours, following which a hideous little mutated turkey would bust his chest open from the inside and grin at them all...awwwww.

I don't know where they can go with this, unless the aliens send another wave, more powerful than the last. Maybe different aliens, or the first aliens enemies.

Funny how this comes on the heels of District 9 and V. Expect about three different studios to put out their own versions of the same film.

And yeah, I agree. Bring back Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum and they need to bring back Adam Baldwin and give him a more substantial part, where he can kick ass and be a smart ass, like he did on Firefly.

Also, they should bring back Randy Quai... Oh, never mind.
What about Mary McDonn... oh, wait..
Hey, what about Harvey Fierste... Oh yeah..
Well there's always Brent Spinerrrrr.... Damn!

Space101

Agreed. There's no need, and it's one of my favorite sci-fi films.

Hollywood, it's okay to have STAND ALONES! :P

Interresting, I'm curious of how this will turn out...to me, there's no need to a sequel of this movie...

Movie plot of Independence Day 2:
Will Smith and his family are sitting around the table waiting for nice hot independence turkey. Will takes a fork to stab it in the turkey but sudenly dead turkey jumpes on his face. He pushes the turkey off his face with anger and sweet words like "What a Fuck!?" (and you are thinking I'm talking about zombie turkeys but you are WRONG!) He looks at the dead meat on the floor then he hears some big noise and everything starts shaking. His kid at the window says:"Daddy,look!" He runs in his backyard. He looks up into the clouds and he sees a bunch of alien starships flying around. He says: "Ou fuck!...Not again! Damn!"
I hope that the actual story begins much better then this. :)

Independence Day was a good movie, but a sequel would be silly. I just don't know how they'd do it.

I mean, I didn't even think the first one was all that great...like Fallen, said: "Nothing wow but fun"

haha Wow...what a sell-out lmao What, are the aliens gonna attack on the same day as last time? Do they have some way of knowing when Americans celebrate their freedom? Just wow.

I think a even a good sequel can't reach the feeling of the first film, because when the aliens came out from the clouds and covered the whole sky the people didn't know anything about them. Some ppl were scared, some ppl were happy about the invasion (they celebrated on rooftops etc) because they thought E.T. came in peace, even the government tried to communicate with them. Nobody knew nothing about them. And of course there was the legend of the area 51 and the way how Goldblum found the solution to destroy the aliens... If they are going to make a sequel and a new alien ship appears near the Earth, ppl will know everything about their agressive intentions and they will do anything from the beginning of the movie to destroy them, wich will ends up as a 120 min sci-fi action film but not so story orientrated like the first one.

I hope I'm wrong and they come up with a really uniqeu story and of course with Smith and Goldblum on the board.

ROFL!!!! I guess Roland Emmerich needs to pay the rent!!!

"Independence Day" was 1 of the worst films of 1996!!

So B-movie silly bad....I can't believe their are people in Hollywood that would pay for these films to be amde... Ohhhh I forgot about M. Night Shyamalan another hack!

The original is still a "guilty pleasure" flick for me. Hopefully they can come up with decent story details to make a sequel happen! Make sure Smith is there...and I will be as well! :)

Cast Smith, and people will come lol.

this movie won't be shit without will smith.

It doesn't need a sequel, but a sequel might not be bad. Anyway, if Smith were to come back... then Goldblum should come back too!