We could have been celebrating our “Doomsday”. According to Bill Pullman who played U.S. President Thomas J. Whitmore in “Independence Day”, the blockbuster alien invasion movie was originally called “Doomsday”.
But all that changed, thanks to Pullman’s delivery of the rousing “Today, we celebrate our Independence Day” rally cry. The actor tells CinemaBlend that director Roland Emmerich and co-writer Dean Devlin were fighting with 20th Century Fox over the movie’s title when it came time to film President Whitmore’s speech.
Pullman explains the filming of the speech got moved up in the production schedule so Emmerich and Devlin could make a case for the name change to Fox.
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