I thought: 'I’ll make them so big they won’t be flying saucers anymore, they’ll be huge ships, as big as cities,'" Roland described. But Roland was deadset on the idea and started to flush out some of the images he had in his head. At that point, even their inspiration, Steven Spielberg, had done that story excellently. However, Dean wasn't so sure about the idea as he thought there had already been too many movies about aliens visiting Earth. Related: Ridley Scott: The New Alien Series, And What Happened To The 'Alien Covenant' Sequel? "What if we woke up tomorrow morning and there were fifty-mile wide spaceships hovering above the city it’d be the most incredible, momentous day in the history of mankind Hey, I think I’ve got our next movie." "Well, I don’t believe in Santa Claus but he’d make a great movie," Roland said to the reporters at the foreign press conference.
While he says that he doesn't believe in aliens, it was this moment that seeded the idea for Independence Day. While promoting Stargate, Roland Emmerich was asked whether or not he believes in Aliens. And it was during the promotion of this film that Roland was inspired to make Independence Day. He was also soon introduced to New York's Dean Devlin who he would collaborate on multiple projects, including Stargate with James Spader and Kurt Russell.
Related: What It Was Like For Whoopi Goldberg To Audition For Steven Spielbergĭue to Roland's love of Hollywood's Film Brat influences, he was deemed "Das Spielberg aus Sindelfingen" (“Little Spielberg from Sindelfingen”) in Germany. For me, German movies were boring and dull, and everything that came from the new Hollywood was cool," Roland Emmerich, Independence Day's director, and co-writer said to We Minored In Film. "I was blown away from the very first frame : you saw that small ship, and then the imperial cruiser kept getting bigger and bigger. That's because the blockbuster films of these two extraordinary filmmakers influenced Roland and Dean and encouraged them to make an entertaining blockbuster with some weight, heart, and intelligence. And, according to them, there would be no Independence Day without Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. There would be no Independence Day without German director Roland Emmerich and New York writer/producer Dean Devilin. Spielberg And Lucas Influenced A German Director With A Love For The Blockbuster
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