Days after his years-in-the-making Independence Day: Resurgence hit theaters to mixed reviews and wanting box office returns, Emmerich opined about the elements that may constitute a threequel to the alien invasion series-which, if you’ve seen Resurgence, you know might just be in the cards.
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One of the stranger things about the movie, which is unusual in many ways, is that Emmerich has included and destroyed a number of structures that did not exist in 1996, meaning that the Independence Day: Resurgence alternative history – mankind harnesses alien tech to build space infrastructure – makes an exception for architectural excellence.
It imagined a heroic American response to a decidedly hostile alien invasion, and smashed its way to the top of the box office charts, grossing over $800m. It had likeable characters whose fate you actually cared about, it was made at a time when CGI hadn’t yet evolved to the point where you could use it as a crutch when designing action sequences, and Roland Emmerich hadn’t yet forgotten the importance of structure and (relative) subtlety when crafting a film on an enormous scale.
It doesn’t appear that audiences are growing exhausted of sequels in general, but rather are raising their ticket-buying standards for them.
Resurgence released on 24th June 2016 and the story concept is so real as we saw in the trailer of the movie very earlier and shows an epic story like we always know that they were coming back.
“Being a fan for many years, I was excited and could not wait to see this film”.
This time there’s a mysterious second alien race to contend with, plus a good=looking new cohort of hotshot Earth Space Defense (ESD) fighter pilots who include obligatory maverick Jake Morrison (Liam “Hunger Games” Hemsworth), Dylan Dubrow-Hiler (Jessie Usher) – the son of sadly-not returning-because-of-death Steven Hiller (Will Smith). “Independence Day: Resurgence” has been forecast for an opening weekend of $50 million at 4,068 locations. This one is just a popcorn movie, with no new ideas. It was not, it’s a very silly film, but it’s also an irresistibly engaging one, a quality few of Mr Emmerich’s subsequent movies have been able to emulate.
Alas it seems that the aliens haven’t been idle either – and when their inevitable resurgent assault comes, it’s bigger than we could possibly repel.
The characters’ bonding through so much hugging, cheering and weeping during the attacks just doesn’t resonate.
Emmerich revealed his plans for the next unwanted Independence Day sequel in an interview with Empire.
He seems to be finding it all hard to take seriously, and who can blame him: the film’s plot is rudimentary, and only intermittently makes sense.
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