Independence Day Sequel Planned

What Took You So Long?

By TK | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (30)

File this under: Surprised it hasn’t happened sooner.

Roland Emmerich, he who apparently has a personal vendetta against the world’s major landmarks and won’t rest until he’s destroyed every one of them on the big screen, is indeed planning a sequel to the megadumb megahit Independence Day. He recently told Latino Review that he has “a very really good great story, a very cool one.”

Very really good great. Outstanding. I’ve been waiting for the next very really good great story.

Adjective abuse aside, apparently what’s holding the project up is Will Smith’s ridiculous salary (which also usually includes a percentage of the gross) that Fox is balking at. It seems sort of silly for Fox to hesitate to pull the trigger on it — Smith is guaranteed money at this point, and assuming 2012 does the boffo business that I’m sure it will, the picture is pretty much a sure thing.

Not quite sure where there is to go from here, but it will likely involve more whiz-bang effects, super alien spaceships, Will Smith being badass yet non-threatening, numerous idiotic plot holes, and the Sydney Opera House being leveled. Or some other important piece of architecture. The world’s monuments clearly wronged Emmerich in another life.

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I will watch this for sure. Any movie involving destruction on a grand scale - esp. if it includes world monuments & I am there, no matter how dumb the film looks!

Posted by: missh at October 13, 2009 10:37 AM

Eh, I'm calling shenanigans if the source is Latino Review. They're the guys who "leaked" Eddie Murphy is being considered as the Riddler for the next Nolan Batman movie.

Posted by: Doric at October 13, 2009 10:37 AM

Welcome to Erf!

Posted by: dammitjanet at October 13, 2009 10:45 AM

What's left to destroy in an Independence Day sequel?

Alien 1: Hey look, it's a crater that used to be Chicago. Let's make it bigger.

Alien 3: That's a great idea, there are lots of craters that need expanding on this planet.

Alien 1: Where's Alien 2?

Alien 3: He was killed in the first movie, along with half our kind.

Alien 1: Oh, yeah. By the way, how the hell did we survive the last movie?

Alien 3: You're looking for cohesion in a Roland Emmerich movie? This is the guy respon- sible for 10,000 BC for fucks sake.

Alien 1: But it makes no fucking sense.

Alien 3: Neither does the fact that Jeff Goldblum broke through the defenses of the most powerful shield in the universe with a DOS. Now get back to leveling that crater.

Posted by: George at October 13, 2009 10:50 AM

Welcome to Erf!

LMAO!!

Posted by: Rykker at October 13, 2009 10:56 AM

WELCONE nu' XENU!

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 13, 2009 11:00 AM

Nah, not for me. The first one was ok if you watched it drunk/stoned, but it doesn't hold up to repeats. So I don't need another one. Besides, we won, what else can happen? That we'd believe, I mean?

And again I ask - where have the previous/next article links gone? PajibaGods, I implore you, put them back. I misses them.

Posted by: Tarn at October 13, 2009 11:01 AM

OT, but I see we're not allowing comments on the best voiced CGI character thread. That confident that we're right, are we?

Posted by: Eep at October 13, 2009 11:21 AM

I don't know why y'all hate on Independence Day, Pajiba writers. I'm all for bashing Roland Emmerich most of the time, but that movie was great, for reasons I mostly attribute to the cast. As long as Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Will Smith, and the old Jewish guy who reminds me strongly of my grandfather come back, there's no way you're keeping me out of the theaters for this one.

Posted by: Zack at October 13, 2009 11:25 AM

This time, the aliens are beat by incessant spam.

Posted by: figgy at October 13, 2009 11:47 AM

I fucking hope that this time that fucking dog gets immolated in a goddamn firestorm.

Hey Buckwheat! Where's your fucking pickle now, bitch?

Posted by: Snath at October 13, 2009 11:57 AM

Figgy, I always thought those aliens were just desperately searching for the hot, tall, interracial, celebrity, sugar daddy singles of their dreams.

Posted by: jM at October 13, 2009 12:15 PM

Earth broadcasts a ShamWow ad at the spaceship, President Pullman cackles "No peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeace!" and the aliens hightail it back to the 13th dimension.

Posted by: , (TCFKAB) at October 13, 2009 1:31 PM

I love Independence Day and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I love Will Smith, I love the pump 'em up speech Bill Pullman gives before he boards his fighter plane and kicks some alien ass, and I love when things go splody.
Apparently I'm a 12 year old boy.
Bring on the sequel bitches.

Posted by: Whorish Mouth at October 13, 2009 2:13 PM

The most disappointing movie of the 90s...this time they'll call it ID4X2. Maybe throw a fraction in there for the hell of it.

Posted by: stryker1121 at October 13, 2009 2:18 PM

Randy Quaid was the yellow space monkey of this film.

Posted by: laredo at October 13, 2009 2:42 PM

Stryker, what's the 1121 for? If it means your birthday is November 21, then Godtopus blessed the world twice on that date.

And this sounds like more of the same shit Hollywood has been assblasting us with for the last two decades. Although I second the I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner sentiments. Someone please tell me: are we all out of original ideas?

Posted by: John Denver's Wingman at October 13, 2009 3:34 PM

When computers were still new and scary, I saw that movie and thought, "Fucking sweet. They're killing the aliens with a computer virus."

Then, a few years ago, I watched it again (when computers were no longer new and scary). I thought, "Fucking gay. They're killing the aliens with a computer virus."

What technology is new and scary that they can defeat the aliens with this time? Texting? Battery powered cars? Seedless watermelons (don't feign bravery in the face of such a monstrosity).

Will Smith: DAMN it's easy to text to Bill Paxton since they took the seeds out my watermelon!
Jeff Goldblum: Well, um...do you, uh, think we're going to be, um, able to get to the white house in time, to um, help stop the alien invasion? Um...
Will Smith: HELL YEAH! My car runs on batteries! You saw my blinker bitch!

Lame.

Posted by: superasente at October 13, 2009 4:15 PM

Smart bet is on Will Smith as the President.

Posted by: superasente at October 13, 2009 4:17 PM

Please infer no racial meaning to Will Smith eating seedless watermelon.

Posted by: superasente at October 13, 2009 4:19 PM

Too late. You're a racist.

THAT'S how quick it can happen.

Posted by: Daniel Hall at October 13, 2009 7:14 PM

Hands off our Opera House, Emmerich. Although if you want to take aim at our Parliament House, be my guest. No one is going to miss those incompetent twats.

Have at it.

Posted by: redhead at October 13, 2009 7:21 PM

But but but.

He already killed all the aliens.

Posted by: Schlegel at October 13, 2009 10:04 PM

RACE WAR!!!...eh

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 13, 2009 10:21 PM

Hang on... we need our Opera House!

We don't have any other famous monuments! What else will the producers of Lost stick outside of hotel room windows to tell viewers that we're in AUSTRALIA in the flashbacks?!

Posted by: Daniel Hall at October 13, 2009 11:47 PM

This time Jeff Goldblum will kill them all with a Macbook Air.

Posted by: James at October 14, 2009 12:07 AM

You know, if the Aliens have bought Norton and installed Avast on their computers, we are so boned as a species.

Plus, we don't have Randy Quaid to save us this time. It looks like we'll have to sacrifice Dennis this time around.

Posted by: alphawhiskey at October 14, 2009 8:36 AM

This time maybe Jeff Goldblum will be able to use a MacBook Pro instead of that old Powerbook 5300. Imagine how much faster he'll be able to crack into the Mothership. Or maybe he can get it done with an iPhone. I bet there's an app for that.

Posted by: ahamos at October 14, 2009 9:52 AM

Other than the premise that evil aliens who pillage and murder as a race would be so trustworthy that they don't need any anti-virus protection, Independence Day was a fun and enjoyable movie to watch. But that in no way guarantees a sequel will follow suit. But if they can make sequels to Uwe Boll movies, ID2 is practically a done deal.

This time the government will send a team of pardoned hackers into their ship all equipped with netbooks who will covertly replace the alien's OS with Windows Vista. That oughta do the trick.

Posted by: altan at October 14, 2009 7:01 PM

OMG, I saw a lot of hilarious comments up there, loved the iPhone App one :P

Posted by: Damian at February 28, 2010 1:14 AM

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