Bill Pullman has revealed that one of his most well known movies, Independence Day, wasn’t originally called that.
The 66-year-old actor, who played President Thomas J. Whitmore, revealed that the original title was actually Doomsday. “We shot that at night, of course, because it’s dark and not on a soundstage or anything,” Bill recalled in an interview with CinemaBlend of filming his iconic speech scene in the 1996 movie.
He continued, “It was really late, and it got moved into the schedule early, because Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich were in contention right then with Fox about the title.
I think it was gonna be Doomsday. It’s what Fox wanted, and it was a title that was typical of the time [for a] disaster movie.” “They [Devlin and
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