Independence Day 2 movie plot has excluded original star Will Smith, but why?

According to the film's original writer and now director Roland Emmerich, during his interview with NY Daily News:

"Will Smith can not come back because he's too expensive, but he'd also be too much of a marquee name. It would be too much. We have like maybe half of the people that you know would know from the first film (in the script) and the other half people who are new."

Coincidentally, Smith made it known that he's in a strict "no sequel" policy for which he did not want to turn into "the sequel guy." However, many of his rumored films are actually follow-ups of his successful movies ie, Bad Boys 3, Hancock 2 and I Am Legend 2 to name a few.

It's almost 20 years following the release of Independence Day and now Fox has finally decided to create a sequel to the hit film with a release date on guess when? The Fourth of July next year of course.

Independence Day 2 movie plot will be picking up in real-time, around 20 years after the first movie was released. Co-writers Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, who's also be helming the sequel, revealed that the film will take place in an alternate present-day set up, where the humans have spent the past 20 years yielding the alien technology, which was featured from the first film.

Although, Will Smith will not be back for the sequel half of the original characters are expected to make a comeback, with half of them being new character. President Thomas J. Whitmore played by Bill Pullman with MIT graduate who became a cable repairman Dave Levinson played by "Jurassic Park" star Jeff Goldblum, who's very much willing to offer his services for the film, will be reprising their roles for the sequel.

"They've talked to me about it, and I've talked to them about it and they're excited and I'm anxious and eager to see - I haven't read anything. I think they're trying to put it together."

According to Devlin and Emmerich, Independence Day 2 movie plot is actually a two-part narrative arch, under the working title Independence Day Forever Part I & II.

"I think [Fox] decided to only do one first," says Emmerich, while White House Down's writer James Vaderbilt will do the polishing of the script.

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