Roland Emmerich has toyed with numerous ideas for an Independence Day 2 over the years, and some of them are downright strange.
Although the events of the coming sequel in many ways appear to build directly off of the events of 1996’s Independence Day, early drafts of the movie didn’t at all.
In the upcoming sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence, Earth has had 20 years to prepare for the return of the aliens, but it almost happened much sooner.