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Ronald Emmerich Has Major Regret About Casting Liam Hemsworth

Liam Hemsworth

Director Roland Emmerich, king of big budget disaster films like Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012, has revealed that he has some directorial regrets.

While on a press tour for his latest flick, a World War II film called Midway, Emmerich revealed that he wished he’d quit working on Independence Day: Resurgence before it made its way into cinemas.

Panned by critics and filmgoers alike, Emmerich said that he’d set out with the intention “to make a movie exactly like the first”, and now believes he “should have stopped” once Will Smith dropped out “in the middle of production” to film Suicide Squad.

A sequel to the 1996 box office hit, Liam Hemsworth stepped in to fill Smith’s shoes, but it still only made $389 million worldwide on a reported $165 million budget.

“I should have stopped making the movie because we had a much better script,” Emmerich said.

“I had to, really fast, cobble another script together. And I should have just said ‘no’, because all of a sudden I was making something I criticised myself, a sequel.”

Whether he regrets making “offensively badStonewall, a film currently sitting at 10% on Rotten Tomatoes compared to Resurgence’s 29% is yet to be determined.