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?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?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?
- Awards
- 3 wins & 17 nominations
Deobia Oparei
- Dikembe Umbutu
- (as DeObia Oparei)
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- TriviaSoon 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.
- GoofsA space ship that has enough mass to pull skyscrapers upwards and off of the planet's surface, should also cause huge disruptions in both Earth's atmosphere and plate tectonics, as well as in the Earth's very rotation. The damage implied in the movie is insignificant compared to what would actually happen (e.g. the seismic shockwave alone would measure hundreds of miles in the amplitude; the oceans would be evaporated; the crust would tear all over the planet, rotation axis and speed would dramatically change) and when the ship finally leaves the Earth, the planet looks quite unscathed by the "interaction".
- Quotes
David Levinson: They like to get the landmarks.
- Crazy creditsDedicated to actor Robert Loggia, who died in 2015.
- Alternate versionsAn 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 (1996) was also released, which ran almost two-and-a-half hours at 145 minutes with the extended cut running for 154 minutes.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Annoying Orange: Trailer Trashed: Independence Day 2: Resurgence (2015)
- SoundtracksIndependence Day Theme
Composed by David Arnold
Featured review
Not as bad as many say but yea set your sights low!
Not as bad as many say but yea set your sights low! I loved the original. This one was missing some of the great acting but I still liked the action and Sci Fi. Goldblum is hard to dislike in any movie. He helps save this from a total bomb. I bought a cheap copy on Ebay and will keep it avail for a double feature come 4th each year.
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- elambson
- May 29, 2017
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- Also known as
- ID Forever Part 1
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- Budget
- $165,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $103,144,286
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $41,039,944
- Jun 26, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $389,681,935
- Runtime2 hours
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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