With director Roland Emmerich busily promoting his gargantuan disaster movie, 2012, he’s let slip a few more details on his Independence Day sequel plans. He’s been working on a follow-up pretty much since the first film came out in 1996, but the difficulty has always been finding a way to get it to work.
Then, in 2004, Emmerich said he thought he’d found a way to do it and started developing a script outline. While things went quiet after that, a couple of months ago Emmerich said the major sticking point at the moment was working out deals with 20th Century Fox, which would get him, producer Dean Devlin and star Will Smith officially signed onto the project.
Now he’s let slip to MTV a few nuggets on just what his plans are, with the most interesting development being that he isn’t just planning a single sequel, saying “What we want to do in the next – it’s actually two movies – we want to do a bigger arc.”
Unfortunately he wouldn’t let slip on just what that bigger arc is, other than saying, “The idea is just to continue the story and actually I don’t know how many years ago this was – twelve, thirteen, fourteen years ago – and just continue where it ended.”
He’s even got a title in mind, suggesting “‘ID4-ever,’ Part I and II maybe?” Hmm, maybe it’s worth thinking about that one a bit more Roland.
At the moment things are still at a very early stage, as without the deals in place at Fox, they still haven’t got beyond the idea and script outline stage. As a result, it seems we might be waiting a few more years for these two Independence Day sequels, if they ever show up at all.