We’ve touched off an ID4 sequel here in the past and now the twosome who were responsible for the original, Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin have been speaking about the sequel."I can tell you that Roland and I have been working together for the first time in 11 years and we’re every excited about the idea of doing it," Devlin said. "Whether or not we can make this happen, if we can get all the pieces to come together, that’s gonna be challenging. But creatively, for the very first time since we did the original, I feel we have a worthy concept, a worthy path to go."
And why take so long to do a sequel?"We resisted doing the sequel for years because we still wanted to honor the first one. The first one gave us all careers and we really love that movie and loved the experience," Devlin explained. "We didn’t want to make a movie because it was financially a good idea, we only wanted to do it when we had an idea and a concept that creatively felt like it honored the first one—that it felt like an organic sequel as opposed to ‘let’s just go make some more money.'"
That last comment doesn’t make sense to me. For such a gigantically successful movie, surely Hollywood would have moved to do a sequel regardless of whether or not Emmerich and Devlin were involved or not. It would be interesting to see what was written on their original contracts. The original movie came out 16 years ago, and is poised to return to cinemas in 3D next year. The story for a potential sequel would have to be pretty damn good and I’m racking my brains to think what road it could go down, considering most of the roads were blown to shit in the last movie. And given the many famous landmarks that were also blown to shit, there’s not alot left to blow up.
Via THR
