Roland Emmerich May or May Not Blow Up the World Again

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At a press junket earlier this summer for 2012,](2012 (2009) - Movie | Moviefone) Roland Emmerich told reporters he’s not doing any more blow-'em-up flicks. “I would not know how to top this… It’s just one of these things, you know. I had a hard time deciding to do another disaster movie, but… you cannot make a disaster movie if there’s not something — an idea in this disaster which elevates it to something more than a disaster. And so it was this idea, you know, that there will be a global flood and it’s a retelling of Noah’s Arc.”

Later he added, “It’s not my last film, it’s my last disaster film. And that’s because I wouldn’t know what else to do. It’s just, you know what, I really didn’t want to do this movie at first… But when I decided that the idea was too good to not do it for the reason I had done before, I said, okay, if I do it, I will do it in such a spectacular manner that nobody can top it for a long time. I have that pride in my work.”

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