There’s been talk of an “Independence Day” sequel since, well, the days of Patrick’s old Corona’s Coming Attractions site. In recent
years, the talk of a follow-up to Fox’s huge money-spinner of 1996
ramped up again with word leaking that director Roland Emmerich had
cooked up the tale for a further two films plus begun negotiations with
the now super-pricey Will Smith. Unfortunately, that’s where the talks
might end.
Emmerich now says the “Independence Day” sequel isn’t likely to happen anytime soon… or rather that it’s “nowhere”.
”Independence Day 2 is nowhere… It’s back and forth, back and forth.
There’s no script because I don’t want to write anything before anything
starts”, the filmmaker tells Empire.
Emmerich does state that “One Day it Will Happen”.
For the moment, he’s feeling much more positive about his
long-gestating take on Isaac Asimov’s none-more-cerebral space odyssey,
“Foundation”.
“We’ve hired a production designer and it’s mainly now to find out
what the movie will cost. It’ll take us until the end of March, then
we’ll decide. The studio’s happy with the script, but now’s the time
that the numbers count. I want to make a movie that’s very different
from other science-fiction movies and I don’t want to have the burden of
too big a budget.”
