I do want to aggressively go forward and do new things." to go forward versus clinging and clawing backwards. "I had the two screenplays in front of me for Independence Day 2 and for Suicide Squad," he said (via MovieWeb ). "I had to choose between the two of those. In 2016, the star explained during a livestream that he simply wanted to do new things, rather than revisiting the early years of his career. Smith has also made public remarks which bear this out, to an extent. I hired two young writers, and they said, 'This has to be the hand-off to a younger generation,' and that was actually. And when that didn't work, I said, 'Let's explore other possibilities'. "The first script, which included Will Smith, was a totally different story," he said. In an interview with Hey U Guys shortly before the flick's release, director Roland Emmerich chalked Smith's absence up to a creative decision. Captain Hiller's off-screen death was explained as being the result of a test flight gone wrong, with his stepson Dylan (Jesse Usher) following in his wisecracking shoes. In 2016, we got the belated sequel Independence Day: Resurgence, which brought back most of the original film's cast - but not Smith. The film's all-star cast included Will Smith as fighter pilot Steven Hiller Jeff Goldblum as tech expert David Levinson Randy Quaid as Russell Casse, a Vietnam vet whose crazy stories of alien abduction suddenly stop seeming so crazy and Bill Pullman as President Thomas Whitmore, himself a former combat pilot, who rallies the human resistance by giving one of the single most stirring speeches in film history during Independence Day's third act. No, they intend to raze our planet and everything on it, and several destroyed cities and one miserably failed counterattack later, it falls to a select few unlikely heroes to find a way to take down the alien invaders and save the Earth. As it turns out, they don't want to share a really excellent recipe for chocolate chip cookies, or even to be taken to our leader. Part of a wave of disaster movies that swept the box office in the '90s, it finds a fleet of city-sized alien spaceships suddenly appearing over several locales around the world. ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ is currently slated for release on June 24 th, 2016.Independence Day, released in 1996, is a stone-cold classic of rollicking, big-budget, action-packed tentpole cinema.
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So, do you want to see an ‘Independence Day’ movie without Will Smith? Or do you think it’s actually all for the best? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
If you look at the situation that way, maybe it really is for the best. said that co-writer and producer Dean Devlin told them that Smith’s absence allowed them to give other members of the cast more action and ensure that they didn’t accidentally let any of the characters overshadow the others. This means that his presence could potentially, no matter how unintentionally, make him the star of the movie, instead of just another part of the ensemble. Will Smith isn’t just one of the best actors in Hollywood, he’s also one of the biggest stars. Will Smith is easily one of the best actors in Hollywood today. However, if you consider things from a different point a view, this could actually be a good thing overall for the film. Unfortunately, this was before Smith’s box office flop, ‘ After Earth.’ After that film, Smith became soured on the idea of doing another science fiction movie where he played a former military hero with a focus on a father/son relationship dynamic. Steven Hiller who is now the father of Dylan (played by Jesse T. Smith would have been reprising his role as Capt. What would that movie have been without his brilliant delivery of some of the best one-liners like “Welcome to Earth”?Īt a recent ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ press event Roland Emmerich, who is producing the movie, said that originally Will Smith was actually very excited to return to the ‘Independence Day’ universe. While the original ‘Independence Day’ had a great ensemble cast and everyone pulled their own weight, Will Smith was arguably the biggest star of the show. Fox… But there’s one very obvious, glaring omission from that list: Will Smith.
We’re getting Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Vivica A. Most of the cast from the first movie is returning to reprise their roles in the second. It’s practically in a category all by itself, so the news of the new sequel, ‘Independence Day: Resurgence,’ is definitely exciting and it’s hard to find anyone who saw the first movie who isn’t looking forward to the second. ‘Independence Day’ is often and quite justifiably held up as an exemplar of summer popcorn flicks.
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