{"id":22018,"date":"2012-09-11T17:46:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T21:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=22018"},"modified":"2021-02-05T13:37:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T18:37:31","slug":"independence-day-sequels-get-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/11\/independence-day-sequels-get-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"INDEPENDENCE DAY Sequels Get Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/WillSmithIndependenceDay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"250\" \/>Roland Emmerich keeps plugging away at a possible pair of sequels to his 1996 alien invasion blockbuster <strong>Independence Day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The two sequels will share a title \u2013 <strong>Independence Day Forever<\/strong> \u2013 with a <strong>Part One<\/strong> and <strong>Part Two<\/strong> tacked on where appropriate. Presumably, the films will be about a second wave of alien invaders who come to Earth, presumably armed with better anti-virus software for their computers than the first wave had.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with the German film site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmstarts.de\/nachrichten\/18475033.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Film Starts<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200109142936\/https:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2012\/09\/11\/independence-days-lovable-sequels-named-and-3d-shamed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bleeding Cool<\/a>) the director and co-writer of the original film confirmed that he and co-writer Dean Devlin have a \u201cquite unique\u201d idea for what the two sequels will be but that they are having \u201ca tough battle\u201d in getting everyone involved in the first film back for the sequels.<\/p>\n<p>This makes a a change from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/27\/sony%E2%80%99s-making-two-independence-day-sequels-with-or-without-will-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last year<\/a> when Sony seemed to be of the attitude that if <strong>Independence Day<\/strong> star Will Smith was unwilling to come back for what they would consider a reasonable paycheck, then they would proceed without him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Now they just need to sign everyone up and make the films, right?<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/11\/independence-day-sequels-get-titles\/\" title=\"INDEPENDENCE DAY Sequels Get Titles\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4458,1907,2191],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-dean-devlin","8":"tag-independence-day","9":"tag-roland-emmerich"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22018"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=22018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}