What Independence Day 2 With Will Smith Was Supposed to Be About
) was to focus on Will Smith’s character Steven Hiller. Of course, in the film that was released, Hiller is dead and his son is among the main characters. That was not the original plan.
“Before [Devlin and Emmerich] wrote one word, we met with Will Smith and said, ‘This is the idea we have.’ He loved it and was super-excited to do it,” Devlin said. “We wrote not just one, but two sequels with him in mind and we handed them into the studio. They went crazy and greenlit immediately; the told us, ‘This is the best first draft we’ve ever read of any script.’”.
Sounds cool. But, as we now know, Smith dropped out of the projects before filming and forced everyone to go in a different direction. “[Fox executives] also wanted to concentrate on the younger pilots, who didn’t have as much to do with the original,” Devlin said. “They thought that young people wouldn’t want to watch Jeff Goldblum, which I thought was crazy. There was a great movie to be made there, and I wish we had made it.” Us too, Dean. Us too.
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