It was, simply put, a great summer movie. It made Bill Pullman the president of the United States of America, thus putting him front and center in the great Pullman/Paxton war of the 1990s.
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It introduced America to the movie star version of Will Smith. It gave Jeff Goldblum another distinctive summer blockbuster movie role after Jurassic Park to put on his resume. It ruled the summer box office with an iron fist, becoming the number one film of 1996 far and away. It’s hard to capture lightning in a bottle twice, as we’ve recounted time and time again on this blog. Somehow, it seems like perhaps Smith could have done both - after all, it took 20 years to bring Resurgence to the screen, so what would a year or two more have hurt? Well, the answer might lie in a little news item from 2011, when Emmerich was still attempting to sell then-20th Century Fox on back-to-back Independence Day sequels. At that time, it was rumored that Smith was asking for a cool $50 million to star in both films - and in 2013, Emmerich seemed to confirm that the deal fell apart over money, telling The Independent that Smith was "too expensive.A sequel to Independence Day, the gargantuanly epic 1996 Fox summer blockbuster, was never a good idea, particularly some odd twenty years after the release of the original. 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, released in 1996, is a stone-cold classic of rollicking, big-budget, action-packed tentpole cinema.
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