In 1996, director Roland Emmerich launched a new era for the disaster movie genre with Independence Day, which became a massive box office hit and seared itself into the public’s imagination with its story of aliens destroying major landmarks and humanity finding a way to fight back.
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Independence Day: Resurgence opens in theaters today, June 24, headlined by a cast that includes Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Maika Monroe and Sela Ward, along with Jessie Usher and Liam Hemsworth. A storyline is already percolating in the writer/director’s mind and will have more than a touch of the Interstellars about it.
20 years have passed since the original Independence Day battle between alien and man. Earth may have won, but the invaders haven’t completely vanquished. I want to maintain this group of people, especially the young characters, and Jeff [Goldblum] and Brent [Spiner] will take part in it. “It’ll be fun to keep that group together”.
Also, don’t worry, Emmerich will definitely be directing the proposed threequel himself: “I’d never, ever let someone else do it”, he promised/threatened.
You can plug addresses into the website IndependenceDayMyStreet.com, and it will show you a 360-degree street view complete with debris from what looks like a spaceship crash.
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With this sequel getting so much hype, fans have to be asking when the Independence Day: Resurgence DVD release date will be so they can own the mini-collection. This conflict, a kind of extra-terrestrial version of Anchorman’s news team fight, has aliens teaming up against the space bastards now threatening Earth. “And this time around we had the best visual effect companies in the world and I think we did something really special so it was like really cool to do that”.
