Independence Day 2 – Jeff Goldblum Offers Update
Steve Barton
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Things have been pretty damned quiet concerning the status of the Independence Day sequel(s), but thankfully Jeff Goldblum is here to blast away our fears. Read on for the latest.
“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,” Goldblum tells TIME.
Goldblum noted though that it’s not official, director Roland Emmerich and producer Dean Devlin (the pair shared writing credits on the original film) have told him there’s a part for him in the sequel, which appears increasingly inevitable.
Fox has brought Carter Blanchard on board to re-write the first draft of the script, penned by James Vanderbilt. Blanchard previously wrote a couple episodes of the TV series “Good vs. Evil” and is currently working on Oculus director Mike Flanagan’s thriller Diver.
No plot details have been revealed for the sequel, tentatively titled ID Forever: Part 1.
Roland Emmerich is still attached to direct with Dean Devlin set to produce. Emmerich will also produce along with Harald Kloser.
The 1996 blockbuster Independence Day hit theaters on July 3, 1996, and went on to gross a still-impressive $817 million worldwide. Look for the new flick in theatres on July 1, 2016 — or almost exactly 20 years after the original hit the big screen.
Stay tuned.
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