But more importantly, most of your favorites from the first movie are back-other than Will Smith, whose character has died “during a test flight” and there’s enough connection between the new, younger characters and the established ones for it to make some sense. Brakish Okun (Brent Spiner), who has been in a coma since the previous invasion, comes out of it just in time to have visions of the aliens’ return.ĭuring the first 20 minutes, there are a lot of new characters introduced quite quickly (maybe too many). David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum), now director of Earth’s Space Defense program, travels to Africa to examine one of the alien motherships that crashed there and has suddenly gone back online. This includes a Space Defense Base that’s been built on the moon (and possibly on other planets) to keep an eye out for possible alien invasions.Īs the world is preparing to celebrate the 20th anniversary of fending off the aliens in the first movie, some of those originally involved are already getting worrying signs of an alien return. Where the original Independence Day was very much a “What If?” story, its sequel is just as much about “What Next?” In other words, what would the world look like 20 years after that disastrous alien invasion that killed millions? We learn pretty quickly that the leaders of earth have embraced the alien technology in order to prepare for another possible alien invasion.
It quickly became one of the precursors for the modern summer blockbuster with filmmakers like Michael Bay building upon that successful formula Emmerich created.
Twenty years ago, director Roland Emmerich and his producing partner Dean Devlin showed what might happen if aliens invaded the earth with their mega-hit Independence Day.
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