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How to bring back Will Smith for the third one (if he wants to)

posted 8 years ago by Boni-The-Sock
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It was established that his character died testing one of the first alien-aircraft prototypes.

However they never said a body was found.

If Will agrees to return to save the franchise, they might just say that during the "test", Steven Hiller was attacked by an alien who had survived human's victory, crashed his aircraft, survived and then was abducted and taken to the main enemy ship that we might see in the third one. Then, Dylan can go and rescue daddy.

Then the characters can say "well, we never found the body, we presumed he was dead".

It's cheap, but I've seen cheaper.

I once told a man to go screw himself! Can you even imagine?! - Kilgrave

[–] chunkylefunga 8 years ago

Just say he was 'kidnapped' and taken to the planet with all the alien refugees.

[–] Banjo_oz 8 years ago

Agreed. My first thought with that line was "I bet the accident was the craft 'warping' across the galaxy rather than him just blowing up". Would like to see him return if they made a third film, even though they threw Vivica's character under a bus, sadly (and yet kept David's annoying dad!).

[–] uruseiranma 8 years ago

It'll turn out the aliens have access to time-portal tech, and so they mess with history, and bring back important 'dead' persons...well, except for Russell.

"Thanks, guys." "So long, partner."

- Toy Story 3 (9/10)

[–] Ry-the-Stunner 8 years ago

Good luck explaining why the Harvesters had any reason for keeping a human alive for 20 years.

[–] Boni-The-Sock 8 years ago

So Will could reenact Fresh Prince of Bel-Air forever, like the Nams did to Ben Stiller in Tropic Thunder.

Jokes aside, the character "dies" 9 years prior to Resurgence, not 20. He could have been imprisoned and being slowly tortured as a punishment. The Aliens don't have to kill every single human they come across. They could find pleasure in inflicting pain for a long time.

I once told a man to go screw himself! Can you even imagine?! - Kilgrave

[–] EazyEwok 8 years ago

He died during a test flight. In others words, in the middle of the barren desert, with extensive oversight. There's no disappearing.

The idiot formerly known as Heez.

[–] aupple 8 years ago

Will Smith is terrible, this movie was terrible, he would have just made it worse. I'm no will smith fan so I'm biased in my opinions of him.

[–] ManuelManipulation 8 years ago

...there will never be a third one, this movie was basically a double barreled shotgun in the mouth suicide to the franchise

[–] Soupful 8 years ago

LOL

Nothing is as it seems, nothing is just one thing and nothing is ever just over there;

[–] P-K-One 8 years ago

Crazy Question: Who wants him back?

I mean, I liked Smith in the first movie and both "Bad Boys" movies are still among my favorite action comedies of all times but...Will Smith has not been in a good movie for a decade now.

[–] ManuelManipulation 8 years ago

"Bad Boys III: Bad Boys for Life" actually wants him back as does the dregs that make up most of the audience in movie theaters these days

[–] Ruf86 8 years ago

Will Smith has not been in a good movie for a decade now

Men in Black 3?!

Although, one strong movie in ten years is pretty sad considering it's Will freakin Smith.

[–] P-K-One 8 years ago

Men in Black 3 did not impress me. I think it suffers from the same thing all recent Will Smith movies suffer from: Too much Will Smith.

The first 2 Men in Black movies lived of the chemistry between Smith and Jones. And to me Brolin was just not as memorable in as Jones was in the role of Agent K. I thought that MIB3 was the weakest of the series. And I blame Smith for that. So I do not count it as a good movie for Smith, I count it as a mediocre one because of Smith.

[–] tdl797 8 years ago

If the body was not recovered, maybe the aliens warped him out of the ship before the crash like they do in Star Trek.

I don't know why Will Smith didn't come in and get hands on with it. Become a producer and take a big part in writing it and creating a great part for himself? Maybe he tried and they didn't want to give him that. Maybe After Earth lost him leverage? I didn't think it was near as bad as it was touted. Been too long for me to remember how I feel about it now.