Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. But will mankind's new space defenses be enough?

Director:

Roland Emmerich

Writers:

Nicolas Wright (screenplay by), James A. Woods (screenplay by)

Stars:

Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman

3 wins & 16 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Liam Hemsworth	...	Jake Morrison
Jeff Goldblum	...	David Levinson
Jessie T. Usher	...	Dylan Hiller
Bill Pullman	...	President Whitmore
Maika Monroe	...	Patricia Whitmore
Sela Ward	...	President Lanford
William Fichtner	...	General Adams
Judd Hirsch	...	Julius Levinson
Brent Spiner	...	Dr. Brakish Okun
Patrick St. Esprit	...	Secretary of Defense Tanner
Vivica A. Fox	...	Jasmine Hiller
Angelababy	...	Rain Lao
Charlotte Gainsbourg	...	Catherine Marceaux
Deobia Oparei	...	Dikembe Umbutu (as DeObia Oparei)
Nicolas Wright	...	Floyd Rosenberg

Storyline

Two decades after the freak alien invasion that nearly destroyed mankind a new threat emerges. This Alien mothership is more than twice the size as the last one and once again, the world's armies must band together to save the world. Do they have enough firepower or will this battle change and will aliens take over?

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Plot Keywords:

chinawoman | chinaman | almond eyes | thin attractive woman | mothership | 

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Taglines:

We always knew they'd come back

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG - 13 for sequences of sci - fi action and destruction, and for some language

Details

Official Sites:

Independence Day 2 Meme Resurgence

Country:

USA

Language:

English Mandarin

Release Date:

24 June 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

ID Forever Part 1

Filming Locations:

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$165,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$41,039,944, 26 June 2016, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$103,144,286

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$389,681,935

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox, TSG Entertainment, Centropolis Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Surround 7.1 Dolby Atmos 12-Track Digital Sound (IMAX 12 track) DTS (DTS: X)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Liam Hemsworth's brother, Chris Hemsworth, appeared in Star Trek (2009) as the father of Captain Kirk (Chris Pine). Pine's actual father, Robert Pine, appeared in the original Independence Day (1996). Brent Spiner appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).

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Goofs

(at around 42 mins) During the destruction of London, the Burj Khalifa building falls on top of the London Eye, implying that Dubai, in the Arab Emirates, was destroyed too. However, immediately after, the Petronas Towers, located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, destroy the Tower Bridge and Dr. Levinson states that the aliens "always go for the monuments". While the mothership in the movie is said to have its own gravitational pull to rip entire skyscrapers, both cities are thousands of miles away of each other and the buildings fall intact. There is no suspension of disbelief or changes on the film's reality Earth to justify these.

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Quotes

[first lines]
President Whitmore: Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July.

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Crazy Credits

Dedicated to actor Robert Loggia, who died in 2015.

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Alternate Versions

An extended version of the movie exists and will be released later after its initial theatrical release. Director Roland Emmerich has said: "It's only about seven minutes longer. It's interesting for fans to see which scenes we cut, although I like it when movies are short." A longer special edition of the original Independence Day was also released, which ran almost two-and-a-half hours at 145 minutes with the extended cut running for 154 minutes.

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Connections

Featured in Honest Trailers: Ghostbusters (2016) (2016)

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Soundtracks

Traveling Africa
Written by James Parkey
Courtesy of Pennybank Tunes Profiles
Under license from 5 Alarm Music

User Reviews

I love this film

It just rocks for the following reasons:

The robot from Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy is here. I love that film! He is still depressed too. Chinese products, Chinese technology, Chinese noodles, Chinese actors. I love that the studio is part-owned by the Chinese now and the rider orders the directors to cast a Chinese person (like Kong, like Doctor Strange etc.) because what the boss says goes! After all, like everyone else I do most of my shopping at the Chinese dollar store Wal-mart. It shows how important and the center of the universe our planet is. The aliens having been USA slapped in the original have gone back light years and have come back to Earth, yes Earth, because planets like ours are so rare. OK, the story is contradicting itself with the whole they vacuumed many other planets, but anyway. We put a station on the moon but hey it rotated and was on the wrong side when the aliens returned so we did not know what to do when an alien arrives.