Roland Emmerich Talks INDEPENDENCE DAY Sequel Details!! President Will Smith??

Merrick here...
Yesterday we mentioned that Sam Raimi was looking into a project called EDF - about humanity's hurried preparation for an impending alien invasion (would someone PLEASE send me that script!?) In that piece, I mentioned that certain elements of EDF evoked long-rumored plot elements of a proposed INDEPENDENCE DAY sequel, saying that:

...in the years after INDEPENDENCE DAY's release, there were unconfirmed rumors that a sequel to that picture would involve a second alien invasion of our planet - but the aliens arrive to find Earth has back-engineered and hybridized the alien tech left behind in the first film, resulting in a far more technically advanced human civilization than those bastard invaders bargained for.

Turns out, Roland Emmerich more or less confirmed this conceit to MTV in February - but they didn't publish the details until now!? In THIS MTV snippet, Emmerich tells us what they're wanting to do with the possible ID4 follow-up - more or less validating close to a decade of hearsay and scuttlebutt.

"It's an alternate reality kind of movie," he said. "We pick up the story, what would have happened after this kind of attack? Naturally, the alien technology has changed everything." Did they rebuild the White House? Who will be president? "Or, who will be president?" Emmerich answered. "Who will be president? See?" He'd just dropped us a non-too-subtle clue with that drawn out "will," and the implication was clear: Will Smith, the fighter jet-flying hero of the 1996 film, at some point became commander-in-chief after the attacks. Whether he remains Mr. President during the course of the sequels or is eventually elected during the new films is an open question.

Jump on over to MTV to see Bill Pullman's (aka President Thomas J. Whitmore) take on this theoretical and potentially still-in-the-wind continuation.
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