Independence Day/Trivia: Difference between revisions

* [[What Could Have Been]]:

** The original ending involved Casse being disallowed to fly alongside the others, and so {{spoiler|he straps an explosive to his biplane and performs the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by flying it into the superlaser}} as per the ending that found its way into the film. It was determined to be a little bit too comical seeing a biplane match the speed of the fighter jets, and the reshot version allows us to see Russ make his decision {{spoiler|as opposed to a suicide mission}} that just happened to be plot significant.

** [[Kevin Spacey]] was Dean Devlin's first choice to play President Whitmore, as they were high school friends. Matthew Perry was also considered to play Jimmy.

** [[Will Smith]]'s then-girlfriend Jada Pinkett Smith was reportedly offered a role in ''Independence Day'' (probably as Captain Hiller's girlfriend), but had already accepted a role in the 1996 remake of ''[[The Nutty Professor]]''.

** There was a scene in the film that would have explained one of the biggest [[Headscratchers]] of how Levinson's Macbook was compatible with an alien operation system, by showing that Levinson analyzed the computers on board the crashed alien fighter to build the virus. For some reason, the scene was removed from the theatrical cut.

 

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