Emmerich making sequel to Independence Day?

What is best known as the most popular recent disaster movie that director Roland Emmerich has made might get the sequel treatment. The 1996 film “Independence Day” is dangling around in development hell within the depths of Emmerich and screenwriter Dean Devlin’s mind. Here’s an excerpt from MTV Movies Blog below:

“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 [negotiations] 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.”

At the moment Roland Emmerich is knee deep in post-production on his newest disaster film 2012. He is also attached to two projects, one of them being the comic book based science fiction film “The Foundation”. The other that is in some what on back burner limbo is “Isobar”, a high priced science fiction film that Emmerich got his hands on a couple of years back and has sunk into the deep recesses of development.

Melissa Molina

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