Roland Emmerich: Next Independence Day Will Be Intergalactic

That’s Right, There’s More!

Those of you who have seen Independence Day: Resurgence, in which the aliens return to harvest Earth’s core, for reasons, may be pleased to hear that’s not the end of it. The New Yorker’s film critic describes ID4: Resurgence thus: “I got to experience a two-hour sci-fi extravaganza and had my sinuses drained at the same time. You can’t argue with value like that.”

Well, next time, Roland Emmerich, director of both ID4 films, and The Day After Tomorrow, 2012… you get the picture wants to extend the franchise following on from the film’s conclusion, which leave the door open for more galactic exploits. Emmerich says, in an interview with Empire:

“The next one will be an intergalactic journey.  It’ll be [set] maybe a year or two later, not 20 years [later]. I want to maintain this group of people, especially the young characters, and Jeff [Goldblum] and Brent [Spiner] will take part in it. It’ll be fun to keep that group together.  Will I definitely direct [the third film]? Oh yes. I’d never, ever let someone else do it.”

With Resurgence’s opening weekend making only $41 million at the US  box office there’s  no guarantee this will happen, however. If it does though:

“I imagine them now going in one of these ships they’ve rebuilt into a wormhole.  I think it’ll be the classic of ‘going into space’ but it has to be about Earth, and we have a really good idea for that.”