It feels like every beloved action , comedy , or action - comedy dealership is getting bring up with new series and continuation . Jurassic Park , Spider - Man , and , of course , Independence Day . In a way , it ca-ca sense . As Will Smith has pointed out , we love nostalgia . But it turns out , that ’s on the button why he stayed away .
In a Facebook Live chat , Smith said he specifically chose Suicide Squad over Independence Day : revivification because he did n’t need to go “ backwards , ” meaning returning to an old franchise alternatively of embarking on something new . This contradicts early statements from bothSmithand conductor Roland Emmerich , who had said it was a timing emergence . As a result , Smith ’s character was kill off in between films , with his Logos look at up his blanket .
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“ I had the two screenplays in front of me for the Independence Day 2 and for Suicide Squad . I had to choose between the two of those , ” Smith said . “ Even the choice of going to Suicide Squad — nothing about the timber of the movie — but the choice of seek to go onward versus clinging and claw rearward . I do want to sharply go forward and do new thing and create and hopefully be able-bodied to stumble upon a new blossom . ”
Of of course , you have to take all of that with a grain of salt . Smith return to the Men in fatal series in 2012 , and he will be starring in not one , but two , sequels in the Bad Boys enfranchisement . That might be more out of genuine love for the story , characters , and co - asterisk Martin Lawrence . But Bad Boys did premiere a year before Independence Day , so the Member Berries are there — something Smith himself know back in February .
“ The world is in a place of nostalgia right now . And specifically in amusement , there ’s such a puff for nostalgia , ” Smith said .
Right now , Smith is star in Collateral Beauty , his latest December attempt to win the Oscar he ’s been denied double before . Still no check on a Suicide Squad sequel , but pass the financial succeeder of the original , it ’s only a affair of time .
[ Entertainment Weekly ]
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