A third film in the “Independence Day” franchise is still a possibility according to director Roland Emmerich.
The original 1996 sci-fi action blockbuster celebrates its 25th anniversary this week, while the poorly-received 2016 sequel turned five. The original made over $817 million at the time, while ‘Resurgence’ made less than $400 million on a budget of $165 million and scored bad reviews.
Speaking with ComicBook.com, the famed “Stargate” and “The Day After Tomorrow” helmer says now is the perfect time to continue the story and a streaming service would be a great place to release a new movie or series as he’d happily continue the story:
“They have now a streaming service and they need product. I would love to do maybe a third one, or a TV show, continuing the story. When we did ‘Independence Day: Resurgence,’ we already had, also, the third part already. Actually, the third part has much more to do with the first part, because we learned, more or less, that out there are a lot of refugees and they’re living on a refugee planet.
And where [the aliens] finally come there because, somewhat like these aliens on earth, found out about it and telepathically or whatever gave it to their super queen. They’re all humans, but in all different forms. So it’s this thing that we have Brent Spiner and Jeff Goldblum and we have them with all these different forms of people, which would be a great movie. But we’ll see what happens.”
To date there has been no indication of any further entries happening anytime soon, especially in the wake of Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox.
Emmerich is keeping busy, currently at work on the $140 million sci-fi action epic “Moonfall” starring Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, Charlie Plummer, Donald Sutherland and Michael Pena.
