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Independence Day 2 now a 2016 Release

By Jack Gattanella on Wed 13 Nov, 2013

All Roland Emmerich fans will have to wait with more baited breath – the studio behind mega-blockbuster-Will Smith-Creator Independence Day, Fox, said that they will be pushing the sequel to 2016.

Originally it was projected as a 2015 summer release.  Plans may have fallen out with trying to secure Smith, which has been one of the studios big concerns (Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum are ready to return), or just the competition in general of a summer packed with sequels to The Avengers and Man of Steel.  Now the competition is with (I wish I were kidding) Sony’s adaptation of the Angry Birds phone game.

The original Independence Day was what a “popcorn movie” basically means: large special effects, almost iconic set-pieces (at the time blowing up the White House was something of a HOLY-S*** moment than it is now oddly enough), and actors getting to chew up lines and scenery amid mock-ups of Area 51 – plus watching Pullman’s speech at the third act mark in ID4 is something of a Patriotic thing in the US, especially on July 4th.

Whether ID4:2 (if that’s how it’s texted or briefed on Twitter) can live up to the original, who knows.  If Smith is back it should at least be fun to see his swagger and sarcasm at an older age.  If Goldblum returns expect a great round of ‘ahs’ in-between the violence and mayhem.

Jack is a graduate of film studies from William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ, and is currently seeking his MFA in Screenwriting at the Academy of Art. He is a screen-writer, film critic, director, and editor, and has also done camera-work for web-series, doccumentaries and shorts. Currently Jack is seeking distribution for his feature film drama, “Green Eyes“, co-produced a sci-fi feature, Audrey Lorea‘s ‘Heaven is Now.‘, as well as a comedy pilot called ‘Losers’ which is being shopped around to networks. He is also a contributing writer for the sites FocusFilm.co.uk, Film Forward, and some of his other reviews can be found on his blogcinetarium.blogspot.com. Jack is a vociferous fan of films and will watch anything interesting, foreign and domestic. He survives by his wife, a political science professor, and currently resides in Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA.
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