Tijdens een interview met Latino Review gaf regisseur Roland Emmerich antwoord op de vraag of hij zin heeft in het regisseren van een vervolg op Independence Day, de zeer succesvolle sci-fi film uit 1996. De film met o.a. Will Smith en Jeff Goldblum scoorde $817,4 miljoen aan de wereldwijde bioscoopkassa.
Ondanks dat Emmerich zeer graag aan de slag gaat, lijken er eerst wat zaken goed geregeld te moeten worden met 20th Century Fox. Emmerich:
"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) 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.."
Wanneer komt Independence Day 2?
Nog belangrijker: is Will Smith in de plannen opgenomen?