I think this is the film where I lost half my hearing. Remember those loud thunderous sound effects as they panned across lady liberty? literately blew out my ear drums!
Well I was hoping for Arnold as well, but I enjoy both “10,000 BC” and “2012”. Not on the same bombastic level of ID4, but their more thematic than a lot of other stuff today.
Independence Day 2 is on track for a Summer 2016 release, directed by Roland Emmerich and featuring Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Vivica A. Fox, and Brent Spiner from the original. Whether or not the film will be any good is one matter. More interesting to me is whether David Arnold will finally return to the major sci-fi blockbuster genre.
I know we have our differences on this board sometimes, but I think we can all agree Independence Day is unequivocally the greatest film score of all time.
My adrenaline is already pumping over the thought of another grand-scale science-fiction score from David Arnold, revisiting his themes from ID4.
Or maybe Emmerich will continue his relationship with Harald Kloser.
As filmmakers, Roland and I treasure David Arnold's talent and dedication. This is our second film with Mr. Arnold and we look forward to continuing this fruitful collaboration for years and years to come.
- Dean Devlin, CD booklet note, 1996.
So much for that.
Didn't Devlin / Emmerich sort of signal the end of these liner note sentiments 15 years ago when they fired Arnold off THE PATRIOT and then never worked with him again? The bigger surprise for me would have been if Arnold actually were reuniting with them for the sequel.
Arnold replied on twitter (he's a very kind guy), and he said Harald Kloser can use his ID4 themes, since Fox has the rights for that. It would be so much logical to hire the original composer.
This is a real shame. But still, scoring's one of the last things done on a picture - there's still time for the producers to have second thoughts. Maybe this'll test badly with preview audiences and they can try to fix things by bringing Arnold in to do the score!
Really. He had an alien tentacle around the the neck and after they shot the alien he was glassy eyes and lifeless. They even say he's dead in the movie.
This movie represented something I miss in movies. The ability to just have fun and not take itself too seriously. It never advertised itself as the next Shakespearean classic. It advertised itself as two hours of non-stop explosions, one-liners, and popcorn movie fun. It had a great and bombastic score to follow it. I remember walking out of the theater as a kid really getting a strong patriotic feeling from the score.
I get Independence Day is in no way a master piece of any kind, but it represents what movies lack sometimes: The ability to bend reality just a little without worrying every little single detail is possible in real life. I'm there to watch a movie, so wow me, if I wanted to watch 100 percent real life I'd sit on a park bench and people watch.
This movie represented something I miss in movies. The ability to just have fun and not take itself too seriously. It never advertised itself as the next Shakespearean classic. It advertised itself as two hours of non-stop explosions, one-liners, and popcorn movie fun. . . . but it represents what movies lack sometimes: The ability to bend reality just a little without worrying every little single detail is possible in real life. I'm there to watch a movie, so wow me, if I wanted to watch 100 percent real life I'd sit on a park bench and people watch.
And the movies that have grossed a billion+ dollars this year so far are Jurassic World, Furious 7 and Avengers 2. Big silly movies that are there to wow people with popcorn movie fun. Maybe not quite as goofy as ID4 but is it not the same idea?