Enticingly these five issues take place partly under the Atlantic and involve mini-subs and at least one of Independence Day: Resurgence’s main characters. "I think his ego kind of got in the way, he made a bad decision and put someone’s life at risk.” His girlfriend is Monroe’s Whitmore.Ī comic-book run bridges the gap between Independence Day and the sequel.Īs a complement to the movie's War Of 96 website and timeline, the filmmakers promise to join the dots between 19 with a Titan comic-book miniseries. "It’s kind of unlucky how he ends up in that ship,” explains Hemsworth. Unfortunately, his knack for flying by the seat of his pants saw him demoted to a posting on the moon where we’ll find him driving a kind of astro-forklift, the Moon Tug. He’s playing Jake Morrison, a tearaway whose parents were killed in the first alien invasion, who grew up in an orphanage and became a Maverick-style fighter pilot. Plenty will be resting on Liam Hemsworth’s broad shoulders too. "He grew up in the world that his dad saved,” explains Usher, "so you can only imagine what being the son of the world's saviour is like. So Maika Monroe, a controversial replacement for Independence Day's Mae Whitman ( Anna Kendrick made her thoughts on the subject clear on Twitter), is the former first daughter Patricia Whitmore, and Jessie Usher is Steve Hiller’s stepson Dylan Dubrow.
Like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Resurgence sees returning characters married up with a new generation of youngsters who may or may not be related to them (but are).
Will Smith’s fighter ace Steven Hiller has smoked his last cigar. “It’s like a post-World generation that’s unified, and that's amazing to see a world come together with a common enemy. "We call it the War of ’96 in the film,” he explained.
After toying with 'Independence Day: Requiem' and 'Independence Day: Retaliation', Emmerich settled on Resurgence. Instead of bringing back one main star, headline duties would be spread across a new generation of young actors, each signed up for two sequels.Ī title was the next priority. “He was excited to be in it,” recalled Emmerich, "but then after a while he was tired of sequels, and he did another science-fiction film, which was his father-son story, so he opted out.” Emmerich’s ‘no-Smith, no-movie’ stance duly softened. Smith, smarting from After Earth’s failure, decided that revisiting one of his old star vehicles in another father-son role would be a bad career move and opted for Suicide Squad instead. Will he or won’t he? Will Smith was courted to return for the sequel.īy 2013, it looked like he’d have to. “If we ever did one,” added his producing partner Dean Devlin, "it would have to be as original to the first film as James Cameron's Aliens was to the first one.” "Everything sounded like a repeat, and we don't want to do repeats,” Emmerich explained. In 2002 there was talk of a sequel inspired by the fear and paranoia of the post-9/11 era, but the lack of a killer idea stopped the project in its tracks. After all, it's his biggest hit by a distance and Hollywood’s love of an established franchise is well known. Emmerich has been asked about an Independence Day sequel on every press tour since he released it. Independence Day: Resurgence is the German’s first sequel, arriving 20 years after Independence Day took $817 million at the box office. From small things, like Paris, to bigger things, like the entire planet, he’s worked his way through a highly profitable blockbuster career without destroying the same thing twice… until now.
Roland Emmerich, nicknamed the ‘Spielberg of Sindelfingen’, is known for marrying gonzo sci-fi beats with a penchant for obliterating things.
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