Independence Day Sequel Becomes Official

Well after many rambling interviews about possibilities and aspirations from the likes of Emmerich, it looks like the sequel to 1996 spaceling classic Independence Day is official.  A release date of June 24th 2016 has been firmly set with an eye to having a production start date in May 2015.  ComingSoon reports that;

Right now, they have only given the green light to a single film There has been news in the past that the studio would make two sequels and film them back-to-back, but that is not the case. The third film will be more dependent on the second film’s success.

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 recently 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.  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.