independence day 2

As if the thought of one Independence Day sequel wasn't enough to wet your pants, Roland Emmerich now says he plans to make two. While it seems like his Independence Day sequel answer changes with each interview he gives, this latest bit of madness is perhaps the most fascinating. Essentially, Emmerich told MTV that he wants two do two movies with a large story arc and that they will pick up right where the original left off.

As far as what to call it, Emmerich threw out the ridiculous title ID4-Ever parts I and II. Personally I think the guy is just off his rocker and having fun with everyone. Seriously, there's no way in hell Will Smith is returning to make two Independence Day sequels. Maybe one, but never two. They'd have to pay him a billion dollars or more to return to this franchise. Could I see another Independence Day in theaters. Yes, totally. And it'd make a killing, too. But there's only so many ways aliens can come down to earth and blow things up. Where else do you go with that?

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Latino Review reports that the battleships in Peter Berg's big-screen adaptation of the popular board game Battleship will not be battling other battleships in the movie, but will instead be fighting aliens.

David Goyer has told MTV that Ghost Rider 2 will not be a reboot, but take place 8 years after the original and get a change in tone.

The site also grabs a sneak peek at Zack Whedon's Dr. Horrible comic prequel.

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Fringe hit a "serious low" this week, falling 23% according to The Hollywood Reporter's Live Feed.

Roland Emmerich tells Cinema Blend that Independence Day 2 is coming now that Obama's in the office. He didn't want to make it during Bush's years in office.

John Cusack tells io9 he'd like to star in Preacher.

Welcome to Captain's Log -- your (semi) daily round-up of sci-fi randomness from around the web. Here's what's happening:

Ian McKellan talked with Empire about The Hobbit recently, and he says not many of the LotR characters will be coming back, save for Andy Serkis. He notes, "The scripts for the two films will be delivered very soon. Then they'll be budgeted, and then they'll be cast. And they'll be going when they've always said they would be, which is next spring – March or April. Guillermo even told me at one point, 'We're going to film for 383 days.' He's got that artistic autism! Jackson's the same; they're very, very, very alike. They also very different, but they've so much in common. They both can't stand Hollywood and have wonderful imaginations, and they're both obsessed with gore and fantasy." McKellan also knows nothing of a Magneto movie, hasn't seen a script and figures he won't be involved at all.

Don't worry -- Dollhouse's ratings might be super-low as they air, but The Live Feed reports that DVR is really helping the series and Fox will air all of this season's 13 Dollhouse episodes.

Are you a fan of Dirk Gently? According to Total Sci-Fi Online, news has emerged from Hitchcon that Douglas Adams' holistic detective will be heading to the BBC.

Lars von Trier, now that he's spooked hordes of people with Antichrist, is getting busy with planetary doom by getting busy with Planet Melancholia, so says Variety.

Airlock Alpha is fighting rumors that Caprica will be axed before it airs, and according to Jane Espenson, things are going well.

Neil Gaiman, BBC Audiobooks, and Twitter are circling together for an exquisite corpse experiment, according to EW.

Though no one asked for a sequel to Independence Day (because didn't Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum use a computer virus to rid us of those damn aliens the last time?), that's not stopping special effects superhero Roland Emmerich from wanting to churn one out for the hell of it. Only problem is ... it's going to take a lot more than an arm and a leg to get Will Smith back in an alien fighting mood.

While speaking to Emmerich about 2012, Latino Review learned that there's a script and a story for Independence Day 2, but right now 20th Century Fox is delaying it because they can't come to terms with Emmerich, writer-producer Dean Devlin and Will Smith -- all of whom want to make sure they're paid, like, a trillion dollars for this thing. According to Emmerich, Fox wanted them to make the sequel without Will Smith, but the writer-director insists he star in it. "I said Will is essential for us, for this movie and actually for the audience too. And, so, it's in limbo and lately the studios are fighting. Like gross players, and Will is a gross player and is probably the only gross player right now who's worth his gross. So we'll see what happens. I would love to do it," Emmerich noted.

Unfortunately for those who feel like a good laugh today, Emmerich did not divulge any story details except to say that it's "a very really good great story, a very cool one." I'm not even going to begin to ask you to understand that quote because it makes as much sense as the ending for Independence Day did. Seriously? A f**king computer virus? How will they destroy the aliens this time around -- by un-friending them on Facebook?