Writer-producer Dean Devlin said the plot was planned out, but Smith turned down the offer.
that there were initially plans to make two follow-ups with Smith’s character, Steve Hiller. Reportedly, Hiller’s arc across the two movies was supposed to mirror Rocky Balboa’s in. “He’d gotten rich, he’d gotten famous, and he had to get the eye of the tiger back, you know?” Devlin explained. Aliens seized the opportunity to retaliate against Earth, requiring a training montage that Devlin described as a “chance to bring the old Will Smith out of retirement.
franchise was for audiences to understand and get to know the aliens that were treated like a “force of nature” in the first movie. Devlin and director Roland Emmerich went to 20th Century Fox with scripts for two movies in this vein, and the studio was enthusiastic. According to Devlin, however, Smith suddenly decided to turn the offer down. There were
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