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Will Smith Won’t Be In ‘Independence Day 2’ – Should We Care?
My immediate reaction to the news that Will Smith won’t return as Captain Steven Hiller in 20th Century Fox’s Independence Day 2 was pretty negative. Smith was the life of the party in the 1996 film that ends with Smith and Jeff Goldblum flying into an alien mothership and hitting it with a nuke.
But that was nearly 20 years ago, and since then Smith has lost his charisma. It’s not necessarily his selection of jobs – even though After Earth was questionable – it’s his lack of body of work. Maybe ID4 2 was just what the doctor ordered, but either way I’m not sure if I care anymore. It’s not as if I trust director Roland Emmerich either…
Variety reported the news while adding that Emmerich is still attached to direct with Dean Devlin set to produce. James Vanderbilt penned the script.
Sources previously said that even if Smith passes on the project, there is a plan on how to do the film without him.
The pic bows July 4, 2016.
The classic murder-mystery game Clue is headed back to screens both big and small, with Variety reporting this week that Sony is planning potential film and television adaptations.
Variety reports, “Hasbro Entertainment has closed a deal with Sony‘s TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for the film and TV rights for the beloved board game.”
“Sony is the perfect partner to adapt a property as culturally impactful and mystery-defining as ‘Clue,’” said Hasbro’s Zev Foreman and Gabriel Marano. “Nicole Brown, Katherine Pope, and their teams are tremendous creative collaborators and ideal partners to help us figure out after 75 years if it was Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick.”
Clue was created way back in 1943 by Anthony E. Pratt, and the board game was of course notably turned into a feature film starring Tim Curry in 1985 and a mini-series in 2011.
Ryan Reynolds had more recently been attached to star in a remake for 20th Century Studios, while Fox Entertainment had been developing an animated series a few years back.
You can learn all about the making of the original Clue film in Who Done It: The Clue Documentary, which is now streaming on the Bloody Disgusting-powered SCREAMBOX!
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