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Still, Emmerich reaffirmed in the interview his commitment to wanting to continue to make big American movies. On a production budget of $165 million, the film netted just under $390 million globally - long in the shadow of the $817 million its predecessor grossed.

“ Independence Day: Resurgence” turned out to be a box-office disappointment. “I should have just said no because all of a sudden I was making something I criticized myself: a sequel.”

“I should have stopped making the movie because we had a much better script, then I had to, really fast, cobble another script together,” Emmerich said. Oscars 2022: Best Original Score Predictions Oscars 2022: Best Cinematography Predictions 'Moonfall' Review: Roland Emmerich's Joyless Spectacle Is One Small Step for Bland, One Giant Leap for Bland-kind Roland Emmerich Slams Marvel and 'Star Wars' for 'Ruining Our Industry' “But then in the middle of production Will opted out because he wanted to do ‘Suicide Squad.'” Smith led the original “Independence Day” film as a wisecracking marine fighter pilot, and was slated to star in the sequel, but the actor reportedly cost too much for the already expensive sequel. “I just wanted to make a movie exactly like the first,” said Emmerich, who while the film was underway, lost his leading man, Will Smith, to another tentpole project. According to the Yahoo! interview, Emmerich regrets ever having made the 2016 Fox sequel “ Independence Day: Resurgence,” the follow-up to the alien-invasion film that took the box office by force in 1996.

As revealed in a new interview with Yahoo! and echoing a previous, frank discussion the German-born filmmaker had about “The Day After Tomorrow,” Emmerich isn’t mincing words about his difficult experiences as a filmmaker. Master of disaster Roland Emmerich returns to theaters this Friday with the WWII battle epic “Midway,” and he is reflecting on his past failures and successes.