Independence Day 2 and 3 Sequels With Will Smith

by Scott Collura / Are you hungry to see Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum defeat another alien invasion with nothing more than a laptop and a pair of cigars? Then you may be in luck, for the talk of a sequel to Independence Day just won’t die. And in fact, now the scuttlebutt has two new ID4 pictures being made.

IESB, who seems to be Goldblum to 20th Century Fox’s Smith with the scoops they get from inside that studio, is reporting that they’ve received a tip that the former Fresh Prince is now locked for ID4 2 and ID4 3.

“The plan would be to shoot both films back-to-back,” says the site. “Whether the studio opts to go the Matrix route and release the two films six months apart or do like the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels and split them by a year remains to be seen. According to our sources, if all goes according to plan, the sequel(s) could shoot as early as 2011.”

One of the obstacles to getting a sequel made in the past has been Smith’s exorbitant price tag, but apparently Fox has deemed that an acceptable risk. The plan, if it happens, will have the original’s director Roland Emmerich — who talked up the two-sequel idea back in November — helming after his thriller Anonymous is done; the production start will also have to wait until Smith finishes his next picture (either Men in Black 3 or The City That Sailed).

This is all still rumor, but crazier things have happened. What do you guys think? Is it time for the aliens to attack again?

Nightmare On Elm Street Remake: Wes Craven Doesn’t Want To Make It

So, a Nightmare on Elm Street remake is planned… but don’t expect original Nightmare director Wes Craven to have anything to do with it. Craven says he’s not interested in remaking the Freddie Krueger horror classic.

Wes Craven commented on the Nightmare on Elm Street remake, saying, “That’d be a tough one to re-see… If you move on from the films you’ve made – which I have tried always to move on – then it’s like, ‘That’s in the past. It’s had his life.’ If they make a better film, maybe it will eclipse the original. I don’t know. If they don’t, then the original will look even better.”

Craven also said, “I guess now they’re (studio bosses) moving towards remakes rather than sequels, because, at some point, you can’t justify another sequel – but you can remake the original, because the audiences have gone through two or three generations.”