10 Movies That Bombed So Hard They Killed The Sequel

Independence Day isn't a movie that was exactly crying out for a sequel, but because everything with any sort of name recognition and earning potential has to be sequelized, remade or rebooted these days, we finally got the second outing that we weren't asking for 20 years later.

Will Smith was smart enough not to return for the follow-up, and even the ever-reliable presence of Jeff Goldblum wasn't enough to elevate Independence Day: Resurgence above mediocrity. Sure, the effects were as impressive as you'd expect from a $165m Roland Emmerich movie, but there was also the overwhelming sense that we'd seen this sort of wanton destruction one too many times before.

Despite two decades of ticket price inflation, Resurgence still couldn't even earn half as much at the box office as its predecessor and any talk of a third movie was immediately halted. Which is a bit of shame really, because the ending set up the potential of seeing Emmerich direct a movie about a ragtag group of humans heading into space to fight an intergalactic war, which sounds so ridiculous and insane that it might just have worked.