Sorry guys -- it looks like Will Smith isn’t interested in making Independence Day 2 (sometimes known as ID Forever).

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Deadline reports that Smith has informed Fox that he won’t be back for the planned follow-up to the 1996 mega-hit. Director Roland Emmerich and co-writer/producer Dean Devlin are expected to make the film nonetheless, and have already had two versions of the film’s story in the works -- one with Smith’s character and one without. Amazing Spider-Man and Zodiac scripter James Vanderbilt has been working on scripts for both takes, so I guess this is good news for him as his workload has now been cut in half.The studio has ID4 2 planned for the July 4th weekend of 2016, the film’s twentieth anniversary. As long as the dog comes back, I’m good.

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