"'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up." — Dean Devlin

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.'

Many years ago, I was actually hired to write the sequel to 'Independence Day.' And I wrote a sequel. And they paid me a boatload of money to go write this thing. And after I wrote it, I read it and I gave them back the money and I said, 'Look, this is an okay movie I just wrote. But it's not worthy of the sequel to 'Independence Day.'

In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.