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Perri is currently on the set, so whenever her embargo lifts (presumably next year), we’ll know more about the movie. So there’s a brief glimpse of Independence Day: Resurgence. In addition to working for Lanford, she also has to deal with having a famous father and growing up in the public eye.

Patricia Whitmore ( Maika Monroe) is now a special agent of some kind (Monroe said she was kind of like a Secret Service agent), but wouldn’t reveal any more details.

“There’s a very different climate in terms of the tenor of the movie.” She’s more willing to use force, and Earth has been preparing for an invasion for 20 years.

She’s more aggressive than President Whitmore ( Bill Pullman, who didn't specify how his character factors into the sequel).

He also has a new wig that’s even longer. Okun ( Brent Spiner) is alive and just as manic and excitable as he was before. Additionally, this group works across border as countries have united against a common threat. The movie takes place in 2016, and David Levinson ( Jeff Goldblum) is now the director of Earth Space Defense, which is in charge of protecting the Earth (the name is not misleading).The 2016 film did successfully reunite the original film’s stars, with Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman resuming their roles, but struggled with filling the gap left by Smith: Liam Hemsworth stepped in to star, and the film pulled in a dispiriting $389 million worldwide, on a reported $165 million budget.Emmerich originally didn’t want to return for a sequel, but after working on 2012, he was lured back by the prospect of what they could do with the technology. And I should have just said ‘no,’ because all of a sudden I was making something I criticized myself, a sequel.” After I had to, really fast, cobble another script together. “I should have stopped making the movie because we had a much better script. “I just wanted to make a movie exactly like the first,” Emmerich explained to Yahoo Movies UK in a piece published Friday.īut then Smith dropped out “in the middle of production” and Emmerich had to scramble to rejigger his now-shattered vision, which was described by the NY Post as a “snoozefest.”

Of course, that film was plagued by troubled production and also got a poor reception. Director Roland Emmerich admits that making his critically panned sequel “Independence Day: Resurgence” was a mistake, according to a new interview.Ĭurrently doing press for his World War II film “Midway,” Emmerich revealed that he “should have stopped” his production of the 2016 sequel to the 1996 classic “Independence Day” when star Will Smith dropped out to film “Suicide Squad.”