New Details on Independence Day Sequels

Roland Emmerich's latest movie, White House Down, will be released this June, and he's setting his sights on his next project. Emmerich and Dean Devlin have talked about a sequel to Independence Day for years now, but some new story details have been provided and it looks like the project could see the light of day.

In a recent interview with EW, they talked about moving forward on two sequels to Independence Day. Currently titled ID Forever Part 1 and ID Forever Part II, the movies would take place 20 years after the events of the new movie and will focus on mainly new characters:

"The humans knew that one day the aliens would come back... And they know that the only way you can really travel in space is through wormholes. So for the aliens, it could take two or three weeks, but for us that’s 20 or 25 years.... It’s a changed world. It’s like parallel history. [Humans] have harnessed all this alien technology. We don’t know how to duplicate it because it’s organically-grown technology, but we know how to take an antigravity device and put it in a human airplane..."

The project is far from a done deal at this point, but White House Down writer James Vanderbilt is currently working on a rewrite. The success of White House Down will likely be a factor in what happens with the Independence Day sequels, and we expect to have a status update by July.