We were decorating the set and I was like, guys, there’s too many flags. Saving the world as a team … Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum go into battle Photograph: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock The studio had a problem with it as he was mainly known for sitcom, but they came round to it. There is no one more American than Will Smith. But we set our sights on Will very early. ![]() Dean said: “Let’s just call it Independence Day we can come up with something better later.” Will Smith’s role was not written as black his ethnicity was not mentioned, so the studio assumed we wanted to hire a white guy. So we wrote the concept around the release date. If it came out on the 4 July weekend, we would beat Mars Attacks!, which was coming out in August. I told our agent we wanted to do it, and he said forget about it, Tim Burton is doing Mars Attacks! I said to Dean, we can’t do our film after a parody comes out. There is no one more American than Will Smith We both lived in the Hollywood hills, and I took Dean to the window, and said: imagine if all this sky was the underbelly of a ship. ![]() We were fans of disaster films, but there hadn’t been one for a long time – in the 70s they had made a disaster out of anything, like a swarm of bees. I had an office right next to Book Soup on Sunset, and I went in there and bought the classics like War of the Worlds but they were all too old-fashioned.
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