Worst idea I've heard all week

[anticonscience]

filmonic.com/will-smith-may-be-president-in-independence-day-sequels

Apparently they want to do a 2-part sequel to Independence Day called "ID4-ever" where Will Smith's character from the original is the president.


Let the facepalming begin...........

[Burst]

Half the reason everybody went to the first one was to see all the landmarks blow up. Is the sequel going to have everything magically rebuilt? Or are there some cities we're going to assume didn't get toasted in the first wave?

Granted, as much as I'd love to see oh, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, or Panama City get blown away, it doesn't quite have the same catchy effect as the White House and Empire State Building in the original trailers did.

Also granted, I'd still love to see the city destruction sequences with full 2010 FX capacity; the original was probably the best damn work I've seen blowing up physical models, but if 2012 the movie taught me anything, it's that CGI apocalypses nowadays can be just as pretty.

Then again, the ending of Knowing was kind of a poor man's ID4 remake at least through New York City anyway.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Still, not as bad as Shelley Duvall's idea in my recent dream. Again, hate to mention it, but now its burned into my memory

[lildude8218]

I love that "Bill Paxman" that was in the original movie

[Beebs is the Final Girl]

but.... I want Capt/Prince LoneStar to still be President

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Oct 1, 2010 2:04:19 GMT -5 lildude8218 said:

I love that "Bill Paxman" that was in the original movie

Insider joke on their part?

Anyway, I can't imagine how this can be made into two movies. Unless one is everyone searching the universe for Bill Pullman's career.

[DSR]

"ID4-Ever"?! What's the sequel called, "ID & Robin"?

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Oct 1, 2010 3:07:47 GMT -5 DSR said:

"ID4-Ever"?! What's the sequel called, "ID & Robin"?

ID4-Life.

[theryno665]

Oct 1, 2010 2:04:19 GMT -5 lildude8218 said:

I love that "Bill Paxman" that was in the original movie

And the confusion between Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton continues...

[Push R Truth]

So what's the plot? We go to their planet for revenge anal probing?

[Paul]

AW HELL NAW!

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

I think the Munsters getting a rebooted series tops this.

[oldad5518]

I think the ship has sailed on this movie................

[Deleted]

A black president? Only in science fiction.

[Baixo Astral]

I liked Independence Day, but this is kinda redundant.

[Deleted]

Oct 1, 2010 11:18:09 GMT -5 @personman01 said:

A black president? Only in science fiction.

Dude that quote is grossly offensive and ignorant of one of the defining moments of our history


......................President Palmer in 24

[Joe Galt]

ID4 was in some ways good. It could have been so much better. It should have been dark in tone like War of the Worlds. ID4 was way too adventurous.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Oct 1, 2010 3:10:10 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Oct 1, 2010 3:07:47 GMT -5 DSR said:

"ID4-Ever"?! What's the sequel called, "ID & Robin"?

ID4-Life.

Too sweet!

[Deleted]

I don't get the point of the film. It's ten years into the future in an alternative reality?

[Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie]

unless .....

they do a PREQUEL showing how the lone fighter got to earth, and how the earthlings treated those poor misguided aliens

THEN we see the LAST civilisation that they ravaged chasing them to earth, only of course for us pesky humans to blowd them all up ..... THEN they go and want our own planet too!!!!

HILARITY ENSUES

personally i would like them to do the movie as a miniseries, filming stuff from other countries and what they do (they filmed the movie in tv format as well, so it would be so easy to convert it to 16x9 format)