Fun fact . the Speech that is in the movie was originally written as a place holder and DDRE were going to rewrite it before filming started . However , they were on such a tight schedule the movie was written and green lit in record time and was filming not long after that they forgot about the rewrite until Bill Pullman was rehearsing it . When they watched him deliver it the first few times they decided not to rewrite it so the final version we have is actually original rough draft of the speech . Only thing that changed was the inclusion of the phrase Today we celebrate our Independence Day because Fox wanted to change the Title from Independence Day to Doomsday since Tim Burtons Mars Attacks was being released around the same time as ID 4 . Actually . its because they wanted to beat MA to the theater that they rushed production , added that line , and kept the July 2 nd release date . Source . Ive been a huge fan of ID 4 for the last 19 years . Also culture 201606 p r e s i d e n t s s p e e c h i n i ndependencedayoralhistory