Huh, this comes as a surprise. Taking full advantage of the fact that everyone’s twitter feed is currently dominated by talk of another major sci-fi franchise, 20th Century Fox has surprised the Internet today with the first trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence. It’s the sequel to Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich’s…

Following a path similar to Alive in Joburg, the short film by Neill Blomkamp’s that ultimately gave rise to District 9, Argentine director Federico Heller’s trippy science fiction short Uncanny Valley is being shopped around as a feature film with multimedia aspects, with Independence Day: Resurgence scribe Carter Bla…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has set Carter Blanchard to adapt Steelheart, the first leg of a three-book trilogy by Brandon Sanderson that is being developed as a potential directing vehicle for Shawn Levy. Blanchard was tapped off his work on the Independence Day sequel and Glimmer, the latter of which is in preproduction. Fox…

EXCLUSIVE: DreamWorks has pre-emptively purchased an original ghost-story pitch from Carter Blanchard, the scribe who most recently did a rewrite on Independence Day 2. I’m told that the pitch is best described as a full-on ghost story rooted in classic Amblin storytelling. Blanchard previously sold his time-travel sto…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has set Carter Blanchard to do a new draft of the Independence Day sequel that Roland Emmerich has committed to direct for a July 1, 2016, release. The first draft was done by Emmerich and Dean Devlin, and then James Vanderbilt. Emmerich is producing with Devlin and Harald Kloser. Emmerich is prepping…

DreamWorks has paid mid to high six figures to acquire Glimmer, a spec script by Carter Blanchard that is described as a found footage version of an Amblin-style film, with a time travel element. Six bidders were in the mix. DreamWorks got a look at it last night and word is that Steven Spielberg called the writer…