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Release year: 2016

Storyline

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?

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Directors

Roland Emmerich

Writers

Cast

Liam Hemsworth — Jake Morrison
Jeff Goldblum — David Levinson
Bill Pullman — President Whitmore
Maika Monroe — Patricia Whitmore

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Did you know

• Soon after the success of the first film, 20th Century Fox paid Dean Devlin a large sum of money to write a script for a sequel. However, after completing the script, Devlin didn't turn in the script and instead gave the money back to the studio, as he felt the story didn't live up to the first film. It was only approximately 15 years later, that Devlin met up with Roland Emmerich to try again, having felt that they had "cracked" a story for a sequel.

• (at around 3 mins) On the monument to The War of '96 seen in Washington, D.C. at the start of the film the name Russell Casse can be seen on a brick in the middle. Russell Casse was the name of Randy Quaid's character who sacrificed himself to destroy the ship approaching Area 51 in Independence Day (1996).

• The movie is dedicated to actor Robert Loggia, who appears in both Independence Day (1996) and Independence Day: Resurgence, and passed away in 2015. The film's closing credits dedication reads: "In Memoriam: Robert Loggia".