Independance Day Sequels

[the_wildcard]

Anybody hear about them making independance day 2 and 3 with Will Smith?

http://sffmedia.com/films/science-f...y-2-and-3-are-coming-will-smith-on-board.htmlhttp://sffmedia.com/films/science-f...y-2-and-3-are-coming-will-smith-on-board.html

 

[nx1701g]

I had recalled reading about them being in development, but nothing concrete. Rumors about them have been on the internet I think since the internet came to be.

 

[Kelso]

I'm more intrigued by the Flowers for Algernon thing. Has anything else come out about that?

 

[Joel_Kirk]

I actually just finished watching ID4 sometime ago....

Um, hmmm....

If there were going to be sequels, I would have liked to have another director/screenwriter take a stab at it...(although, granted, it was Emmerich's baby to begin with).....

I agree with Kelso. I am looking forward to 'Flowers for Algernon,' myself...(I recall reading it for a class sometime back)...

 

[Silent_Bob]

Not really sure where they could go with ID4 sequels. Surely there arent many monuments left to blow up after the first film, or will the aliens be targeting the less impressive landmarks this time like New Zealands Toothbrush fence or the Holy Stone of Clonrichert?

Its doubtful anything will come from these rumours, as nx1701g said there have been rumours about ID4 sequel since the dawn of the internet, heck i heard rumours about them before the first film had even been released. And Emmerich has a tendency to "announce" films he's going to make before any studio actually agrees to do it, like his Stargate sequels he decided to "announce" a while back that MGM had no idea about.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

^^

The obvious route, when the film was fresh in everyone's mind, was to have aliens still on Earth (doing something)...Whitmore would probably still be in office...Steven Hiller would probably be a Major or General...etc...

I recall there were some books based on ID4, but they were prequels....and (IIRC) not very well received.

 

[Caliburn24]

I think the most obvious route would be to have mankind, still reeling from the devastation inflicted on them during the first movie, be forced to deal with another wave of Alien attackers, either the same species from the first movie or a new species.

Will Smith is a general and leader of the new United Earth Defense Force which has a collection of captured Alien ships and newly built human prototypes.

It would be similar to Robotech in a lot of ways.

But hey, Hollywood doesn't do much Space Opera, so I'm onboard.

 

[crouteru]

I would say set the film several decades or a century into the future, with another alien species (allies of the first aliens?) taking revenge or simply continuing the efforts of the other aliens.

Of course it would need to have bigger ships, more devastating explosions and even deadlier aliens. It is a sequel after all!

It also needs to avoid simply repeating what we've already seen in the first film. Maybe these aliens could have the ability to destroy a planet? I know that can't happen to Earth, but what if there's a colony on Mars, or maybe the moon that could get destroyed?

I'm just thinking aloud here.

 

[Mr Light]

I just watched the movie for the first time in forever on the weekend and I was thinking about this. I would imagine that a new alien race attacks Earth, only this time we have a small fleet of reverse-engineered alien ships.

You could make an interesting post-9/11 commentary with it. The aliens claim to be peaceful but the post-invasion Earth is bat shit crazy and convinces themselves they're coming to attack and look for any flimsy excuse to start the attack.

 

[Deckerd]

Whatever happened to Will Smith anyway?

 

[Shurik]

Everything worth blowing up was blown up in the first film, so the sequels won't be that exciting ...

 

[barnaclelapse]

Not really sure where they could go with ID4 sequels. Surely there arent many monuments left to blow up after the first film, or will the aliens be targeting the less impressive landmarks this time like New Zealands Toothbrush fence or the Holy Stone of Clonrichert?

Its doubtful anything will come from these rumours, as nx1701g said there have been rumours about ID4 sequel since the dawn of the internet, heck i heard rumours about them before the first film had even been released. And Emmerich has a tendency to "announce" films he's going to make before any studio actually agrees to do it, like his Stargate sequels he decided to "announce" a while back that MGM had no idea about.

A sequel could be weirdly fun (especially if they broke back as many of the original cast members as possible and mixed them up with some new faces), but it's nothing essential to me.

 

[FordSVT]

Whatever happened to Will Smith anyway?

He had two movies released in 2008, produced Karate Kid, is in pre-production on MIB3, and is attached to more "in development" projects on IMDB than pretty much anyone else in existence. So I guess the answer to your question is.... did one year without a Will Smith movie mess you up that bad?

 

[Deckerd]

Whatever happened to Will Smith anyway?

He had two movies released in 2008, produced Karate Kid, is in pre-production on MIB3, and is attached to more "in development" projects on IMDB than pretty much anyone else in existence. So I guess the answer to your question is.... did one year without a Will Smith movie mess you up that bad?

If they were released in 2008 then we're talking 3 years without a Will Smith movie. It looks like he's done a Demi Moore.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Maybe they'll tie it into Stargate somehow? ID4 was supposed to be a SG sequel. Or the other way around.

 

[bigdaddy]

I just watched the movie for the first time in forever on the weekend and I was thinking about this. I would imagine that a new alien race attacks Earth, only this time we have a small fleet of reverse-engineered alien ships.

You could make an interesting post-9/11 commentary with it. The aliens claim to be peaceful but the post-invasion Earth is bat shit crazy and convinces themselves they're coming to attack and look for any flimsy excuse to start the attack.

I actually kind of like that idea, but I still doubt any sequel or sequels to ID4 will ever get made.

Maybe they'll tie it into Stargate somehow? ID4 was supposed to be a SG sequel. Or the other way around.

No, once again a Yankee fan is wrong. It was never ever supposed to be a sequel to Stargate, I don't know where that dumb lie started but it isn't based on any type of truth or facts.

 

[gblews]

Whatever happened to Will Smith anyway?

He had two movies released in 2008, produced Karate Kid, is in pre-production on MIB3, and is attached to more "in development" projects on IMDB than pretty much anyone else in existence.

Damn, you weren't kidding. Most intriguing; Flowers for Algernon - hope they don't try to tear jerk it up more than necessary, and Uptown Saturday Night - old blaxploitation movie that starred Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, and Sidney Poitier.

Hope they have a good script this time for the MIB threequal.

I like Calhoun24's version of an ID4 sequel.

 

[Lt. Trull]

My only question is: has humanity learned it's lesson and instead of living in large urban areas where slaughter is easy or dispursed into smaller urban areas where it would be more difficult?

 

[STR]

I just watched the movie for the first time in forever on the weekend and I was thinking about this. I would imagine that a new alien race attacks Earth, only this time we have a small fleet of reverse-engineered alien ships.

You could make an interesting post-9/11 commentary with it. The aliens claim to be peaceful but the post-invasion Earth is bat shit crazy and convinces themselves they're coming to attack and look for any flimsy excuse to start the attack.

I actually kind of like that idea, but I still doubt any sequel or sequels to ID4 will ever get made.

Maybe they'll tie it into Stargate somehow? ID4 was supposed to be a SG sequel. Or the other way around.

No, once again a Yankee fan is wrong. It was never ever supposed to be a sequel to Stargate, I don't know where that dumb lie started but it isn't based on any type of truth or facts.

Because the idea for ID4 came about during a Stargate press conference in Europe. Emmerich was asked if he believed in aliens. He said no. The reporter incredulously asked how he could make Stargate without believing in Aliens. Emmerich replied with some offhand comment that he believes in life somewhere out in the cosmos, but he's not expecting mile-wide flying saucers to come flying in the next day. Upon the end of the conference, he went backstage and told Dean Devlin that he had an idea for a new movie.

 

[EnsignRicky]

I loved Independence Day but feel absolutely no need for an ID5.