That worries people like Annette Emmerich, a Frankfurt-area office manager who suffers from breast cancer.
Not even Roland Emmerich can keep the hangdog spirit of Reno on a leash.
Emmerich is hoping the zeitgeist will be with him when "10, 000 BC" hits cinema screens around the world.
Roland Emmerich's film career started while he was still a student of the University of Television and Film Munich.
Emmerich made three more films in Germany before 'bad reviews' drove him out.
"You're obsessed with the weather channel, " Emmerich says, of the duration of filming.
Roland Emmerich arrives in suit and trainers and immediately bounds over to a group of fans who are waving books and photos.
"I was making movies like I'm doing now, but it was like a whole different world at that time in Germany, " Emmerich says.
When "Independence Day" opened in 1996, I wrote a review that was long on scorn and short on respect for Roland Emmerich's us-against-the-aliens saga.
Shooting begins at the end of March and will be the first movie Emmerich, helmer of disaster movie "2012, " has filmed in Germany in 20 years.
With Noah Emmerich as a hysterical ex-cop and Jennifer Connelly as a loving wife more interested in her baby son than in her handsome but hapless husband.
One day Roland Emmerich will take a breather and give us a modest, thinly peopled costume drama in which, at the climax, somebody drops a teacup, but that day has not yet dawned.
As in other Emmerich movies, the script seems to be poorly translated from the Martian, and even distinguished actors including Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and (as the American president) Danny Glover are left to flounder in the mess.
Since Ms. Emmerich was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer this past summer, her insurer -- one of the country's more than 200 state-regulated nonprofit "patient funds" -- has taken care of all of her doctor and chemotherapy bills.
His final thesis was meant to be a short film, but in true Emmerich style, Roland went one further and wrote a longer script, raised extra money to finance it and then watched as The Noah's Ark Principle opened the 1984 Berlin Film Festival.
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