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Given that we’ve heard again about a new *Godzilla *movie and rumor of back-to-back sequels to Independence Day](Independence Day (1996) - Movie | Moviefone), I wanted to pitch something related to another Roland Emmerich work. But there’s nothing else in his filmography I’d like to revisit. Maybe in another 25 years we can have an elderly Mel Gibson return for a War of 1812-set Patriot 2 or something. Or John Carpenter should reboot *Stargate *with original star Kurt Russell. But those are even worse ideas than I normally have, so I’ve decided instead to concentrate on potential *Independence Day *returnee Will Smith and propose another sequel: Enemy of the State 2.
Outside of Wild Wild West](Wild Wild West (1999) - Movie | Moviefone), Tony Scott’s *Enemy of the State *is I believe the only one of Smith’s action films not to receive a sequel or at least talk of one. Maybe that’s because it opened in second place behind The Rugrats Movie](The Rugrats Movie (1998) - Movie | Moviefone) and grossed even less than the much hated WWW. I’ve always thought of *Enemy of the State *as an unofficial sequel to The Conversation](The Conversation (1974) - Movie | Moviefone), even though this certainly lessens my apparent respect for that Francis Ford Coppola classic (it is one of my favorite films of all time, actually). Archive images of Gene Hackman’s character in *Enemy *are intentional references to The Conversation, but it’s merely the sort of '70s film homage consistent with Scott’s work, like having Hans Zimmer rip off Carl Orff for the *Badlands-*inspired True Romance.