Emmerich Still Plans Independence Day 2

While on his press rounds for his latest end-of-the-world flick 2012 (pssst – the twist this time is it’s Noah’s Ark) Roland Emmerich confirmed to Latino Review that he would still like to make an Independence Day sequel: “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’s] 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.”

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