As 2012 opens to a projected $200 million weekend, rumor has it director Roland Emmerich has plans for more destruction. He recently revealed to MTV that not only is he interested in making a sequel to Independence Day, but that he wants to make it a two-filmer. That’s right… ID4-Ever Part I & ID4-Ever Part II.
So far there aren’t any real story details. So, no word on if the world will be saved by a virus 2.0 or not. Now, I would be remiss if I didn’t admit that, at least 13 years ago, I rather enjoyed watching Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum
saving the world (but not the White House) by uploading a computer virus (oh yeah, “spoiler” alert). But did I ever wonder what they did next? Do I care where they are now? No, not really. Can’t say I do.
But there’s a larger issue here. It’s the fact that Emmerich has an annoying thing for global disaster, almost end of world films. The political issue of global warming lead to an ecological disaster that destroys (most of) the planet in The Day After Tomorrow (2004), but of course humans don’t actually see a dinosaur-like fate. And now with 2012, we have another end-of-the-world movie only this time the premise is taken from the theory that the world will end in the year 2012. Ok, fair enough, aliens and nature failed… but the Mayan’s won’t!
Whoops. Not so fast. Emmerich foiled the Mayans, too! Not to spoil that ending, but apparently he is working on a TV series set in post-apocalyptic 2012. According to Entertainment Weekly Emmerich is in talks with ABC to develop “2013” with Howard Gordon (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Private Practice”).
Sometimes I wish the world really would end just so I didn’t have to not see another Roland Emmerich disaster.
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by Andrew Richards
