Oh dear god, no:
Independence Day producer Dean Devlin told SCI FI Wire that he and partner Roland Emmerich came up with the storyline for a sequel in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. “Since September 11th, [director Emmerich] and I did a lot of reflecting on the movie,” Devlin said in an interview while promoting his latest film, Eight Legged Freaks. “It started because people were asking us about images that were fantasy images that then looked so frightening real in the [wake of] horrible events that took place.”
Found at Science Fiction Weekly. Personally, I’ve gone out of my way not to see Independence Day a second time, since it…well, since it sucked. I’ll admit, I enjoyed it at the time, but the minute I started thinking about it…whoo boy. Someone once said that, as a moviegoer, he really did enjoy the film immensely but that, as a fan of intelligent science fiction and story and writing, he wanted to burn every minute of the film to the ground. I thought that someone was J. Michael Straczynski, but, despite quite a bit of effort, I haven’t been able to find that quote anywhere.
If you can’t find something on the internet, does that mean it doesn’t really exist?