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Independence Day 2

10/30/10 - IESB.net reported that Will Smith is now locked for not only Independence Day 2, but also a third installment. The plan would be to shoot both films back-to-back.  The sequels could shoot as early as 2011.  The site said that the main roadblock has been the cost of signing Smith again, not to mention reteaming him with director Roland Emmerich.

10/13/09 – LatinoReview.com reported that a sequel to Independence Day may never be made according to ID4 co-writer/director Roland Emmerich.  “Dean Devlin and I are still set to make a sequel likely because we've found some sort of idea and we approached Fox and Fox has not quite figured out how to incorporate Dean's and my deal, and Will's (Smith's) deal. Will wants to do it in some sort of a package they can live with. So it's just been in negotiations now since forever, and naturally Fox says ‘Why don't you do it without Will Smith?’ I said Will is essential for us, for this movie and actually for the audience too,” he said.  If the deal stuff can be figured out, Emmerich says he'd love to do ID4 2 and added that he and writer/producer Dean Devlin even have "a very cool" story for it.

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