For the director of this sequel, the film’s failure was Will Smith’s fault. Although fans had high expectations, in the end, Smith did not allow it to perform decently at the box office.
With each passing year, the budgets of films that reach both the big screen and streaming platforms have increased exponentially. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Fast and Furious X and Pirates of the Caribbean: Sailing on Stranger Tides They are the films that have cost the most in the history of cinema.
With large amounts of money being invested in films, directors expect to make hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office, however, this is not always the case. Tapes like Indiana Jones and the dial of destiny, The Marvels and John Carter They cost too much, and despite the efforts of the production, they failed to attract the public or perform adequately enough to recover the money allocated.
The sequel to one of the most iconic films in Will Smith’s career, despite having a budget of 165 million dollars, did not achieve the expected results. While viewers were eager to see the sequel to one of the most legendary films of the 1990s, the film was ultimately considered a failure..
According to the director himself, Roland Emmerich, Independence Day: Counterattack failed to live up to public expectations. “I just wanted to make a movie that was exactly like the first one, but in the middle of production, Will decided to leave because he wanted to do ‘Suicide Squad'”the filmmaker told Yahoo Entertainment in November 2019 about how the actor chose to film the DC Comics film instead of the science fiction work.
“I should have stopped making the movie, because [inicialmente] We had a much better script, but I was forced to quickly improvise another one. “I should have said no, because suddenly I was doing something that criticized me: a sequel.”Emmerich said about how he had already planned for Smith to be present in the film, however, given his absence, he ended up changing the course of the original story.
In Independence DayGerman filmmaker Roland Emmerich combined science fiction and catastrophes, resulting in the most emblematic work of his entire career.The film reunited Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman, narrating the brutal and explosive invasion of Earth by aliens and the desperate counterattack of humans to try to save the planet. A true commercial success, a sequel would follow 20 years later, which without the presence of Will Smith, barely grossed 389 million dollars.
