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io9: President Obama Inspired Roland Emmerich to Make Independence Day 2 [Independence Day 2]
SciFiCool.com | No Anal Probing Involved: Roland Emmerich Blames Fox, George W. Bush for the Lack of an Independence Day 2
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rt @scifirules Roland Emmerich held off on ID4 2 because he hated Bush? #scifi http://bit.ly/4rA2I2 / So much 4 objectivity! #bias 12 days ago |
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He is a kook, and 2012 looks horrible. RT @scifirules Roland Emmerich held off on ID4 2 because he hated Bush?WTF?!http://bit.ly/4rA2I2 12 days ago |
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RT @scifirules: Roland Emmerich held off on ID4 2 because he hated Bush?WTF?! #scifi http://bit.ly/4rA2I2 12 days ago |
President Obama Inspired Roland Emmerich to Make Independence Day 2 [Independence Day 2]
io9 —
... against an outside invader. I didn't want to make that movie during the Bush years. It was not thought that George W. Bush would have made a great king. Now with Obama, it's another story." The sequel would, in fact, focus on the US President, but it's still plagued by funding woes and disagreements between Emmerich and Fox as to whether to bring back Will Smith. But Emmerich seems determined to return to the universe of what he calls his "defining film." Roland Emmerich Wants To Make Independence Day 2 Because Of Obama [Cinema Blend] ...
Roland Emmerich Blames Fox, George W. Bush for the Lack of an Independence Day 2
SciFiCool.com | No Anal Probing Involved —
... on November 6, 2009 | [image] German director Roland Emmerich, aka the man who made death porn on a global scale (aka disaster films) popular again, blames the lack of a sequel to “Independence Day” on the studio’s unwillingness to pay Will Smith his due. And oh yeah, that guy George W. Bush is also to blame, too. In a roundtable interview with critics, Emmerich tells CinemaBlend that the reason why he hasn’t been enthusiastic about making an “ID4″ earlier is that Bush was in office at the time and, apparently, he didn’t want to make a movie about a heroic President ...
