With the trailer for his latest venture WHITE HOUSE DOWN making its way online, of course the conversation would turn to director Roland Emmerich’s most famous project INDEPENDENCE DAY. After it was revealed that Fox would be holding back a planned 3D re-release of the 1996 film, the cyber-sphere started to wonder whether this meant that Emmerich was planning on something much bigger, and it definitely looks that way, with not one but two sequels to the film!
The two sequels would be called ID FOREVER PART I AND II, and if they go into production they would take place 20 years after the original. Emmerich explained:
“The humans knew that one day the aliens would come back. And they know that the only way you can really travel in space is through wormholes. So for the aliens, it could take two or three weeks, but for us that’s 20 or 25 years.
It’s a changed world. It’s like parallel history. [Humans] have harnessed all this alien technology. We don’t know how to duplicate it because it’s organically-grown technology, but we know how to take an antigravity device and put it in a human airplane.”
But who would fight them this time around? There is no news whether Will Smith is rejoining, but Bill Pullman has revealed that he is definitely on board. Emmerich teased a little bit about the characters:
“It’s still some of the same characters, but also new younger characters; it’s a little bit like the sons take over.”
We’re excited already!
Source: Entertainment Weekly
