Independence Day: Resurgence opens in U.S. theaters on June 24th, 2016.
He’s since become the go-to guy for similar CGI-fuelled devastation (Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012), using global disasters or alien invasions to unite humanity in an attempt to bring about world peace.
It’s only a matter of days until the long-awaited Roland Emmerich sequel Independence Day: Resurgence explodes onto cinema screens, a lengthy 20 years since Will Smith (a notable absence in this follow-up), Jeff Goldblum, and Bill Pullman starred in the first.
“It was after 9/11 and [writer/producer Dean Devlin] and I wanted to make the movie about peace, and it just didn’t work.