Director Roland Emmerich and co-writer and producer Dean Devlin were prepping two versions of the sequel--one with Will Smith's character Captain Steven Hiller central to the action and one without him at all.
Smith was undecided about reprising the role That's no longer the case--Smith has reportedly told Fox that he won't be doing the sequel.
A final conversation between Smith Emmerich has yet to take place
Screenwriter James Vanderbilt ("The Amazing Spider-Man," "Zodiac") is currently at work on a polish of Emmerich and Devlin's script for the second film.
At last report Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman, were set to reprise their roles as tech whiz David Levinson and Pullman was President Thomas J. Whitmore respectively.
The studio pushed back the release date of the film by a year. Originally slated to bow on July 3rd 2015, it will now open July 1st 2016. One benefit of the delay is that it allows the studio to capitalize that it will be out on the 20th anniversary of the original "Independence Day"
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