Goldblum Talks Independence Day Sequel

The two confirmed names so far for ID Forever: Part 1 are Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum.  Goldblum is excited (as I think we all are) and this week gave Time Magazine an update:

I had a meeting and have been talking over the last several months or year with Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, the producer, and they’ve been cooking up and say they have a part for me in what they hope will be a plan to make another one pretty soon…. they’re still talking about it and I’ve heard recent rumblings here and there about it, and ‘Oh, there’s a scripting coming in’ – maybe last weekend there was a script handed in, so it’s brewing.

The film is actually being written by Carter Blanchard and will see a July 1 2016 release.  In the first sequel, the alien cavalry arrives to get medievil after their scout force sent a distress call before being annihilated.  The homosapiens have since adapted and weaponised looted alien technology, which (sort of) evens the odds.

No Will Smith kicking E.T. ass in this movie though, because he demanded $50,000,000 to appear in both movies, whereby Fox basically said fuck you.  Okay, maybe they didn’t say that.