![]() Especially in hindsight, Emmerich and company should have made that Independence Day sequel with our heroes traveling to the alien world to kick butt and worried about the next installment after the fact. Sad to say, you can’t do that to paying audiences. ![]() Independence Day: Resurgence amounted to 119 minutes of set-up with an implied promise that the next movie would be really neat. The latter spends the whole time setting up the premise and characters you came to see and then says “Okay, you’ll get what you want in the next film, we promise!” Like any number of failed “origin story franchise-starters,” Independence Day: Resurgence spent its running time leading up to the movie you wanted to see.Īnd that is the difference between the origin stories that work (Warner Bros./ Time Warner Inc.’s Batman Begins, Sony’s Casino Royale, Paramount/ Viacom Inc.’s Star Trek) and the ones that don’t (Universal’s Robin Hood, Fox’s Fantastic Four, Universal/Comcast Corp.’s Jem and the Holograms). The former gives you an hour of origin story and then another hour of our heroes being the heroes we wanted to see. Even though it was technically a sequel, this second Independence Day was a classic case of a failed franchise-starter/botched origin story. But both options would have left the filmmakers without a plot available for a third Independence Day movie.Ĭome what may, because the filmmakers wasted audience goodwill on this inferior sequel, we may never get to see the interesting idea that this whole second film set up. Or they could have made a 2.5-hour movie which opens with an invasion, ends its second act with a triumph over the invaders, and then spends its third act with a “take the war to them” action finale. They could have made a full-on “heroes invade alien home world” sequel. I don't just mean a new Independence Day movie, but rather at least two new Independence Day movies. Well, it's no secret that the original plan was to create a new Independence Day franchise.
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