scifiwire.com - 19 days ago
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The master of disaster talks about his favorite destruction moments in the movie and the one that got away.
cinemablend.com - 15 days ago
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cinemablend.com —
Last time we heard from Roland Emmerich about
plans for a second Independence Day movie , he
said that Fox was balking at putting up the money for Will Smith to be part of the film. At today's press day for 2012 , I asked Emmerich both about the ...
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Exclusive: Roland Emmerich Wants To Make Independence ...
blogs.amctv.com - 12 days ago
scificool.com - 17 days ago
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scificool.com —
Roland Emmerich has an early Xmas present ready
for all you fans of fine, tasteful and hysterical
disaster movies. “2012″ will enrich all our Sci-Fi Holiday preparations with absolutely photo realistic footage of mother Earth undergoing an extreme makeover. In the crumbly aftermath, ...
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Roland Emmerich Has His Plans Made For 2013
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... • Roland Emmerich discusses his reasons for destroying every monument in the world for the forthcoming disaster flick, 2012, with one exception: The Kaaba in the holy city of Mecca. ...
Lost's Secret Theme Song, 2012 Awfulness, First Animated Doctor Who Clips, And New Caprica Glimpses [Morning Spoilers]
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... back to the White House, which I thought was ironic," says Emmerich, who's obviously a big Alanis Morrissette fan. Also, a big cruise ship, meant to evoke the Poseidon, rolls over. A big crack appears in the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The Basilica, in the Vatican, tips over and falls on people. Also, the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro collapses "because I'm against organized religion," says Emmerich. (He wanted to destroy an Islamic monument, but feared a backlash.) [Sci Fi Wire] ...
What Roland Emmerich Couldn’t Obliterate
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... have a fatwa on my head because of a movie. And he was right. … We have to all … in the Western world … think about this. You can actually … let … Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have … a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is. So it’s just something which I kind of didn’t [think] was [an] important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out.” Probably wise, probably wise. Thanks Scifiwire .
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