Taking alien tech and reverse-engineering it using a Mac, the human race refurbishes the battleship Yamato and sends it off to fend off another wave of alien attacks.
I think a good sequel storyline would involve humanity reverse engineering the alien technology, discovering the whereabouts of the alien homeworld, and then build their own pre-emptive attack force. On their way, past the point of no return, something goes wrong and the human mother ship must scour other planets for resources, including an inhabited one. Oh wait, I must be thinking of Robotech and Avatar mixed together. Nevermind. #independenceday
I hope he's joking, because making movies down the line that were not intended in the first place always fail so bad... except in the box office. Damn it, people, stop paying for such tripe! #independenceday
@Paul_Is_Drunk: The Star Wars prequels were intended in the first place.
A few other reasonable good sequals (like Indy 2/3) wernt untill after the first was a success.
Die Hard, meanwhile, was also just a set of random action films, with no inter-film arc planned at all. The 4th film is no different to the others there.
So your theory dosnt hold water the way you phrased it. Perhaps you should have said "late sequals dont work" or something like that. #independenceday
@twDarkflame: I feel that "making movies down the line that were not intended in the first place" is pretty much the same as "late sequals (sic)" but to each their own.
And, honestly, the Star Wars prequels were no more planned out than anything George Lucas did. That man loves to change history. Just read any of the original scripts, or just look how he spontaneously had Leia be Luke's sister.
I wish I saved that link on io9 of the original writer of Return of the Jedi saying the sibling was going to be introduced as someone else in the third film before George Lucas started going all control freak. #independenceday
the second will feature the arrival of the overlords, come to finish the work at which their minions failed. and in the third, after a few all-too-brief years of recovery, the arrival of the invid. #independenceday
@twDarkflame: I enjoyed the first and second Batman movies (although I had my doubts at first about Michael Keaton, he made a GREAT Batman, and the revamped Penguin was cool but grotesque); the third was too "cerebral" (Batman III: Batman Gets Psychoanalyzed), and Batman and Robin was just as campy as the '60s series. Batman Begins and Dark Knight was a refreshing return to a Tim Burton-esque style, although Ra's Al Ghul was very different from the comic books. So...four hits, two misses; not bad, about the same score as the six Star Wars movies (Episode I: meh, Episode III: predictable; four for six again.) Looking forward to the next one. #independenceday
So I'm guessing that Will Smith's character is the President of the United States and Earth has seriously upgraded their defenses with alien tech. Then of course the aliens return and there's a big awesome battle.
Then at the end of the movie, it's decided that the battle needs to be taken to the alien's Homeworld to end their threat once and for all, which sets up the next movie. #independenceday
I always felt ripped off by the ending of the original. Not only did the aliens have a massive ground offensive ready, but a slew of cool looking ships we never got to see in action.
Hopefully the sequel will be more about said forces, and less about giant motherships. I'd actually enjoy a sequel that amped up the horror aspect of the creatures. #independenceday
@Akitsu: While I was really impressed by the Alien's use of open source software to power their computers (the only plausible explanation for how a human written computer 'virus' was able to run on alien hardware), I was pretty annoyed the Aliens didn't have better virus protection on their computers. What, they don't have hackers on any of the alien homeworlds? That just seemed so unrealistic. #independenceday
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What do you mean "it's been done"? #independenceday
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ID26: Boxing Day - staring Will Smith and Sylvester Stallone. #independenceday
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Indiana Jones 4?
Die Hard 4?
The Star Wars prequels?
Godfather 3?
I hope he's joking, because making movies down the line that were not intended in the first place always fail so bad... except in the box office. Damn it, people, stop paying for such tripe! #independenceday
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A few other reasonable good sequals (like Indy 2/3) wernt untill after the first was a success.
Die Hard, meanwhile, was also just a set of random action films, with no inter-film arc planned at all. The 4th film is no different to the others there.
So your theory dosnt hold water the way you phrased it. Perhaps you should have said "late sequals dont work" or something like that. #independenceday
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And, honestly, the Star Wars prequels were no more planned out than anything George Lucas did. That man loves to change history. Just read any of the original scripts, or just look how he spontaneously had Leia be Luke's sister.
I wish I saved that link on io9 of the original writer of Return of the Jedi saying the sibling was going to be introduced as someone else in the third film before George Lucas started going all control freak. #independenceday
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The state motto of Idaho really is "Esto perpetua" usually translated as "May it be perpetual" or "It is forever". #independenceday
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ID6: The Out-Of-Court Settlement
...Watch for the 'Zilla cameo! #independenceday
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So I'm guessing that Will Smith's character is the President of the United States and Earth has seriously upgraded their defenses with alien tech. Then of course the aliens return and there's a big awesome battle.
Then at the end of the movie, it's decided that the battle needs to be taken to the alien's Homeworld to end their threat once and for all, which sets up the next movie. #independenceday
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Then sink the boat. #independenceday
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Hopefully the sequel will be more about said forces, and less about giant motherships. I'd actually enjoy a sequel that amped up the horror aspect of the creatures. #independenceday
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