i like Emmerich's movies, even if not absolutely thoughtful they are made with fantasy and with more heart than all the transformers movies togheter.

Oh and Stargate was awesome

they need will smith.. everyone who remembers that movie remembers specifically will smith.. it'll bring in much more of an audience

@Tony93 - It was the Nineties! - THE NINETIES!.
Will Smith isn't cool anymore (and sorry big willy but neither is your son you're grooming as your replacement).

@SimyJo your probly right.. I just hope a kid isnt the lead though

@@LEVITIKUZ- I see what you did there...hahaha

I'm all for a sequel or sequels. With or without Smith.

Three things.

1- the script and story better be knockout awesome and MAKE SENSE-no plotholes
2- if Smith doesn't return, they better a BAMF to replace him as the hero.
3- if Smith does return, I DON'T WANT TO SEE HIS DUMBASS SON!!!

ID won the oscar for visual fx and that was back then
can you imagine how awesome they would be now with modern tech?
fvck will smith hes a disgrace
hes a talented actor no doubt but hes ruining his reputaion paying off directors to let his talentless son be cast
same thing with his daughter
"i whip my hair all around" really?

@ Optimus; "3- if Smith does return, I DON'T WANT TO SEE HIS DUMBASS SON!!!""

MUCHO agreed :-p

Welcome to Earf!

Ive wanted a ID sequel, but I agree with everyone else in the world that I'm tired of seeing his kid.

Will Adam Baldwin be back? He could play one of the Generals. After Firefly and Chuck, he is probably recognizable enough to turn his smallish role into a major role.

@Scorpion8125 IMHO, a sequel 20 years later is a great idea. Using all the crashed and blown up alien tech that the squids left behind, a united Earth waiting for another invasion? It would be like when the Borg attacked Sector 001. Bases on the moon, Mars, and space stations, with new tech as an early warning system... and crazy ass Professor Jeff Goldblum with time and money to build shit.

Really? Will Smith was the only good thing about that cheesy pos. It's criminal to drop him.

YES! If anybody can give us epic disaster movies, it's Roland Emmerich. Besides ID I also loved Day After Tomorrow and 2012 was enjoyable. I even liked his Godzilla movie which I feel is horribly underrated.

It makes sense for there to be a sequel, and Sci-fi fans will love the particulars for those sequels:

-a legitimate twenty year gap gives time for rebuilding.

-some common sense in tactics. It's ridiculous to think an ENTIRE SPECIES will travel space! What country do we know of, on our own planet, takes EVERY one of their people to war? Freaking ants don't even do that. So, why would an entire planet do it? There are civilians and backup back home. Durr.

-Even if alien backup wasn't on its way, humanity would make its way out to THEM. We reverse engineer all kinds of stuff in real life...do you REALLY think we wouldn't try to do the same with alien gear? Hell, they were trying to do it in the first movie!

-Remember that part when Bill Pullman saw in the aliens mind that the aliens went planet to planet ganking civilizations? THERE ARE OTHER ALIENS. Thus, the enemy of my enemy and all that. Humans would do what it could to prevent future assaults.

All I'm saying is, sequels in this case are valid; they don't even require a stretch in imagination. Cash may obviously be a factor, but Independence Day hasn't been big news for over a decade or more...a simple cash grab could have been made one year after its release.

Those ships were huge. The ones they brought down in the film would be filled with uninjured and armed aliens. They really don't need an alien backup plot. The world is already a battle field.

I'd love to see a 2-part sequel, with or without Smith, but I do hope Goldblum comes back.

It would be neat to see the aliens' homeplanet, but that would probably make them less mysterious, and thus, less interesting.

Hmmmmm...I can't really get into this idea unless The Fresh Prince returns. I'd probably see this regardless though. I loved the first one. Not the best film but it was fun.