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| caption = Theatrical release poster
  
| caption = Theatrical release poster
 
| director = [[Roland Emmerich]]
  
| director = [[Roland Emmerich]]
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| producer = [[Dean Devlin]]<br>Roland Emmerich<br>[[Harald Kloser]]
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| producer = [[Dean Devlin]]<br>Roland Emmerich<br>[[Wikipedia:Harald Kloser|Harald Kloser]]
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| screenplay = [[Carter Blanchard]]<br>Roland Emmerich<br>Dean Devlin
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| screenplay = Carter Blanchard<br>Roland Emmerich<br>Dean Devlin
 
| based on = Characters by Roland Emmerich<br>Dean Devlin
  
| based on = Characters by Roland Emmerich<br>Dean Devlin
 
| narrator =
  
| narrator =
 
| starring = [[Jeff Goldblum]]<br>[[Bill Pullman]]<br>[[Liam Hemsworth]]<br>[[Jessie Usher]]<br>[[Maika Monroe]]<br>[[Sela Ward]]<br>[[Charlotte Gainsbourg]]<br>[[Joey King]]<br>[[Judd Hirsch]]<br>[[Angelababy]]<br>[[Vivica A. Fox]]<br>[[Brent Spiner]]<br>[[William Fichtner]]
  
| starring = [[Jeff Goldblum]]<br>[[Bill Pullman]]<br>[[Liam Hemsworth]]<br>[[Jessie Usher]]<br>[[Maika Monroe]]<br>[[Sela Ward]]<br>[[Charlotte Gainsbourg]]<br>[[Joey King]]<br>[[Judd Hirsch]]<br>[[Angelababy]]<br>[[Vivica A. Fox]]<br>[[Brent Spiner]]<br>[[William Fichtner]]
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| music = Harald Kloser<br>[[Thomas Wander]]
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| music = Harald Kloser<br>Thomas Wander
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| cinematography = [[Markus Förderer]]
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| cinematography = Markus Förderer
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| editing = [[Adam Wolfe]]
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| editing = Adam Wolfe
 
| studio = [[Centropolis Entertainment]]<br>[[TSG Entertainment]]<br>[[Electric Entertainment]]
  
| studio = [[Centropolis Entertainment]]<br>[[TSG Entertainment]]<br>[[Electric Entertainment]]
 
| distributor = [[20th Century Fox]]
  
| distributor = [[20th Century Fox]]
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| country = United States
  
| country = United States
 
| language = English
  
| language = English
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| budget = $200 million
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| budget = $165 million
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| gross = $383,629,942
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| gross = $383,011,630
 
| preceded_by = ''[[Independence Day]]''
  
| preceded_by = ''[[Independence Day]]''
 
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| imdb_id = 1628841
  
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'''''Independence Day: Resurgence''''' or "'''''IDR'''''" (2016) is an American science fiction sequel to the 1996 film [[Independence Day]]. Directed by [[Roland Emmerich|Roland Emmerich]], written by Emmerich, [[Dean Devlin]], and [[Carter Blanchard]], and produced by Emmerich, Devlin, and Harald Kloser, the sequel featured Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox and Brent Spiner reprising their original roles. In addition, newcomers Liam Hemsworth, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jessie Usher, Maika Monroe, Joey King, Sela Ward, and William Fichtner also join the cast. Will Smith did not return. Filming began on April 20, 2015, and IDR was released in North America on June 24, 2016.
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'''''Independence Day: Resurgence''''' or "'''''IDR'''''" (2016) is an American science fiction sequel to the 1996 film [[Independence Day]]. Directed by [[Roland Emmerich]], written by Emmerich, [[Dean Devlin]], and [[Carter Blanchard]], and produced by Emmerich, Devlin, and Harald Kloser, the sequel featured Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox and Brent Spiner reprising their original roles. In addition, newcomers Liam Hemsworth, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jessie Usher, Maika Monroe, Joey King, Sela Ward, and William Fichtner also join the cast. Will Smith will not return. Filming began on April 20, 2015, and IDR was released in North America on June 24, 2016.
  
   
 
==Plot==
  
==Plot==
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In Africa, ESD Director [[David Levinson]] meets with Dr. [[Catherine Marceaux]] and warlord [[Dikembe Umbutu]], who lead him to an intact alien destroyer. Aboard the ship, they discover that the ship was drilling a hole before the aliens' final defeat and had sent a distress call to its home planet. Furthermore, Umbutu and former U.S. President [[Thomas Whitmore]] experienced recurring visions of extraterrestrial logograms ever since their personal encounters with the aliens, and Umbutu is learning how to read them.
  
In Africa, ESD Director [[David Levinson]] meets with Dr. [[Catherine Marceaux]] and warlord [[Dikembe Umbutu]], who lead him to an intact alien destroyer. Aboard the ship, they discover that the ship was drilling a hole before the aliens' final defeat and had sent a distress call to its home planet. Furthermore, Umbutu and former U.S. President [[Thomas Whitmore]] experienced recurring visions of extraterrestrial logograms ever since their personal encounters with the aliens, and Umbutu is learning how to read them.
   
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A spherical ship emerges from a wormhole near the ESD's [[ESD Moon Base|Moon defense headquarters]]. Levinson is convinced that it belongs to a different extraterrestrial race that is benevolent and urges the world's government not to attack, but President [[Elizabeth Lanford]] gives permission to shoot it down regardless. Against ESD orders, pilot [[Jake Morrison]] picks up Levinson, Marceaux, Umbutu, and Floyd Rosenberg on a space tug and they head for the crash site, where they recover a container. Suddenly, an [[Harvester|alien mothership]] 3,000 miles wide emerges and destroys the Moon base before approaching Earth. The space tug is caught in the mothership's gravitational pull, which also lifts buildings and structures from most of Asia. The debris falls over Europe where the tug manages to escape, as it passes over [[London]], before heading on to [[Area 51]].
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A spherical ship emerges from a wormhole near the ESD's [[ESD Moon Base|Moon defense headquarters]]. Levinson is convinced that it belongs to a different extraterrestrial race that is benevolent and urges the world's government not to attack, but President [[Elizabeth Lanford]] gives permission to shoot it down regardless. Against ESD orders, pilots [[Jake Morrison]] and [[Charles Miller]] picks up Levinson, Marceaux, Umbutu, and Floyd Rosenberg on a space tug and they head for the crash site, where they recover a container. Suddenly, a [[Harvester Mothership|alien mothership]] 3,000 miles wide emerges and destroys the Moon base before approaching Earth. The space tug is caught in the mothership's gravitational pull, which also lifts buildings and structures from most of Asia. The debris falls over Europe where the tug manages to escape, as it passes over [[London]], before heading on to [[Area 51]].
   
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The mothership lands in the north Atlantic Ocean, destroying several cities in the process, including [[Washington, D.C.]] Captain [[Dylan Dubrow-Hiller]] attempts to rescue his mother, [[Jasmine Dubrow-Hiller|Jasmine]], but she dies in the resulting tsunami. The mothership begins drilling a hole in the middle of the ocean to harvest the heat of the core, which will destroy Earth's magnetic field in the process. The aliens also raid the Cheyenne bunker, in Colorado, killing the President along with most of her Cabinet. General [[Joshua Adams]], a Cabinet official, is named the designated survivor and immediately sworn in as the 46th President.
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The mothership lands in the north Atlantic Ocean, destroying several cities in the process, including [[Washington, D.C.]] Captain [[Dylan Dubrow-Hiller]] attempts to rescue his mother, [[Jasmine Dubrow-Hiller|Jasmine]], but she dies when the mothership's landing strut makes impact with the hospital she works at. The mothership begins drilling a hole in the middle of the ocean to harvest the heat of the core, which will destroy Earth's magnetic field in the process. The aliens also raid the Cheyenne bunker, in Colorado, killing the President along with most of her Cabinet. General [[Joshua Adams]], a Cabinet official, is named the designated survivor and immediately sworn in as the 46th President.
   
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Upon the space tug's arrival at Area 51, Dr. [[Brackish Okun]] wakes up from his twenty-year coma. He proceeds to open the container from the wormhole, which releases [[Sphere|a giant white sphere of artificial intelligence]]. The sphere reveals that it was sent by a party of refugees to help evacuate humanity to a refuge planet from the invading harvesters. Meanwhile, Whitmore interrogates one of the aliens held in captivity since the last war. The ESD learns that the aliens, while similar to Earth's insect kingdom, are not like locusts as they initially believed but exist in eusociality and that their [[Alien Queen|queen]] is coming. ESD forces, led by Dylan, stage a counter-attack but are caught in a trap within the mothership that disables their weapons and wipes out most of the squadron. Dylan, along with Jake and fellow pilots [[Charlie Ritter]] and [[Rain Lao]], manage to escape.
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Upon the space tug's arrival at Area 51, Dr. [[Brackish Okun]] wakes up from his twenty-year coma. He proceeds to open the container from the wormhole, which releases [[Sphere|a giant white sphere of artificial intelligence]]. The sphere reveals that it was sent by a party of refugees to help evacuate humanity to a refuge planet from the invading harvesters. Meanwhile, Whitmore interrogates one of the aliens held in captivity since the last war. The ESD learns that the aliens, while similar to Earth's insect kingdom, are not like locusts as they initially believed but exist in eusociality and that their [[Harvester Queen|queen]] is coming. ESD forces, led by Dylan, stage a counter-attack but are caught in a trap within the mothership that disables their weapons and wipes out most of the squadron. Dylan, along with Jake and fellow pilots [[Charles Miller|Charlie Miller]] and [[Rain Lao]], manage to escape.
   
 
Seeing that its activity has alerted the alien queen to its presence, the sphere's A.I. tries to convince the ESD to destroy it in order to prevent the aliens from getting the coordinates to the refuge planet. The remaining ESD forces instead use the space tug as a decoy and put the sphere in an isolation chamber, intending to lure the alien queen's ship to a secluded area to destroy it with nuclear weapons. Against his daughter [[Patricia Whitmore|Patricia's]] wishes, Whitmore volunteers to pilot the space tug on the suicide mission. During the subsequent battle, Whitmore leads the alien queen's warship to the trap and detonates the bombs, sacrificing himself and destroying the ship with the Queen still inside.
  
Seeing that its activity has alerted the alien queen to its presence, the sphere's A.I. tries to convince the ESD to destroy it in order to prevent the aliens from getting the coordinates to the refuge planet. The remaining ESD forces instead use the space tug as a decoy and put the sphere in an isolation chamber, intending to lure the alien queen's ship to a secluded area to destroy it with nuclear weapons. Against his daughter [[Patricia Whitmore|Patricia's]] wishes, Whitmore volunteers to pilot the space tug on the suicide mission. During the subsequent battle, Whitmore leads the alien queen's warship to the trap and detonates the bombs, sacrificing himself and destroying the ship with the Queen still inside.
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*[[Angelababy]] as [[Rain Lao]]
  
*[[Angelababy]] as [[Rain Lao]]
 
*[[Robert Loggia]] as General [[William Grey]]
  
*[[Robert Loggia]] as General [[William Grey]]
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*[[John Storey]] as Miltion Isaacs
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*[[John Storey]] as [[Milton Isaacs]]
 
*[[Chin Han]] as Chinese Space Squadron Commander [[Jiang Lao]]
  
*[[Chin Han]] as Chinese Space Squadron Commander [[Jiang Lao]]
 
*[[Nicolas Wright]] as [[Floyd Rosenberg]]
  
*[[Nicolas Wright]] as [[Floyd Rosenberg]]
 
*[[DeObia Oparei]] as [[Dikembe Umbutu]]
  
*[[DeObia Oparei]] as [[Dikembe Umbutu]]
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*[[Joey King]] as [[Sam]]
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*[[Joey King]] as [[Samantha Blackwell]]
 
*[[Gbenga Akinnagbe]] as Agent [[Matthew Travis]]
  
*[[Gbenga Akinnagbe]] as Agent [[Matthew Travis]]
 
*[[Patrick St. Esprit]] as Secretary of Defense [[Reese Tanner|Tanner]]
  
*[[Patrick St. Esprit]] as Secretary of Defense [[Reese Tanner|Tanner]]
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|characters=
  
|characters=
 
*[[Joshua Adams]]
  
*[[Joshua Adams]]
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*[[Alien Queen]] {{1st}}
  
 
*[[Bobby]] {{1st}}
  
*[[Bobby]] {{1st}}
 
*[[Felix]] {{1st}}
  
*[[Felix]] {{1st}}
 
*[[Audrey Grey]] {{1st}}
  
*[[Audrey Grey]] {{1st}}
 
*[[William Grey]]
  
*[[William Grey]]
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*[[Steven Hiller]] {{Mo}}
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*[[Harvester Queen (IDR)]] {{1st}}
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*[[Steven Hiller]] {{Po}}
 
*[[Dylan Dubrow-Hiller]]
  
*[[Dylan Dubrow-Hiller]]
 
*[[Jasmine Dubrow-Hiller]]
  
*[[Jasmine Dubrow-Hiller]]
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*[[Isaacs]]
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*[[ Milton Isaacs]]
 
*[[Elizabeth Lanford]]
  
*[[Elizabeth Lanford]]
 
*[[Jiang Lao]]
  
*[[Jiang Lao]]
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*[[David Levinson]]
  
*[[David Levinson]]
 
*[[Julius Levinson]]
  
*[[Julius Levinson]]
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*[[Charlie Miller]]
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*[[Catherine Marceaux]]
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*[[Charles Miller]]
 
*[[Jake Morrison]]
  
*[[Jake Morrison]]
 
*[[McQuaide]] {{1st}}
  
*[[McQuaide]] {{1st}}
 
*[[Brackish Okun]]
  
*[[Brackish Okun]]
 
*[[G. Ritter]]
  
*[[G. Ritter]]
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*[[Floyd Rosenberg]]
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*[[Floyd Rosenberg]] {{1st}}
 
*[[Sam]] {{1st}}
  
*[[Sam]] {{1st}}
 
*[[Sphere]]
  
*[[Sphere]]
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*[[Patricia Whitmore]]
  
*[[Patricia Whitmore]]
 
*[[Thomas Whitmore]]
  
*[[Thomas Whitmore]]
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*[[Bakari Umbutu]] {{Po}}
 
*[[Dikembe Umbutu]]
  
*[[Dikembe Umbutu]]
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*[[Upanga Umbutu]] {{Po}}
   
 
|creatures=
  
|creatures=
   
 
|events=
  
|events=
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*[[Resistance-Alien War]]
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*[[Resistance-Harvester War]]
 
*[[War of 1996]] {{Mo}}
  
*[[War of 1996]] {{Mo}}
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*[[Congo Ground War]] {{Mo}}
 
*[[War of 2016]]
  
*[[War of 2016]]
   
 
|locations=
  
|locations=
 
*[[Earth]]
  
*[[Earth]]
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**[[Africa]]
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**Africa
 
**[[United States of America]]
  
**[[United States of America]]
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***[[Colorado]]
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***Colorado
 
****[[Cheyenne Mountain Complex]]
  
****[[Cheyenne Mountain Complex]]
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***[[Nevada]]
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***Nevada
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****[[Area 51]]
 
***[[Washington, D.C.]]
  
***[[Washington, D.C.]]
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*[[Moon]]
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*[[Resistance Millitary Center]] {{1stm}}
  
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**[[ESD Moon Base]]
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*[[Sphere's planet]] {{1stm}}
   
 
|organizations=
  
|organizations=
 
*[[Earth Space Defense]] {{1st}}
  
*[[Earth Space Defense]] {{1st}}
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*[[Officer]]
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*Officer
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**[[Captain]]
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**Captain
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**[[General]]
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**General
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**[[Lieutenant]]
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**Lieutenant
 
*[[Interplanetary refugees]]
  
*[[Interplanetary refugees]]
 
*[[President of the United States]]
  
*[[President of the United States]]
   
 
|species=
  
|species=
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*[[Aliens]]
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*[[Harvesters]]
 
*[[Human]]
  
*[[Human]]
   
 
|vehicles=
  
|vehicles=
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*[[B-012]]
 
*[[H-8 Global Defender]]
  
*[[H-8 Global Defender]]
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*[[Harvester]]u
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*[[Harvester Mothership]]
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*[[ESD Space Tugs]]
   
 
|technology=
  
|technology=
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*[[HTR-16 Incisor Plasma Assault Rifles 15]]
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*[[Orbital Defense System]]
 
*[[Sphere]]
  
*[[Sphere]]
   
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</gallery>
  
</gallery>
   
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===making===
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===Making===
 
<gallery>
  
<gallery>
 
Inside the Visual Effects of "Independence Day Resurgence" Design FX
  
Inside the Visual Effects of "Independence Day Resurgence" Design FX
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</gallery>
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===Deleted scenes===
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<gallery>
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Independence Day: Resurgence Deleted Scene - Queen's Chamber | 20th Century FOX
 
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==References==
  
==References==
 
{{Reflist}}
  
{{Reflist}}
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{{ID4 media}}
  
{{ID4 media}}
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[[Category:Movies]]
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[[Category:Films]]
 
[[Category:Independence Day: Resurgence]]
  
[[Category:Independence Day: Resurgence]]

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Template:Infobox film Independence Day: Resurgence or "IDR" (2016) is an American science fiction sequel to the 1996 film Independence Day. Directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Emmerich, Dean Devlin, and Carter Blanchard, and produced by Emmerich, Devlin, and Harald Kloser, the sequel featured Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox and Brent Spiner reprising their original roles. In addition, newcomers Liam Hemsworth, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jessie Usher, Maika Monroe, Joey King, Sela Ward, and William Fichtner also join the cast. Will Smith did not return. Filming began on April 20, 2015, and IDR was released in North America on June 24, 2016.

Plot

Twenty years after the events of the previous film, the international community recovers and the United Nations creates the Earth Space Defense (ESD), a united global defense program that serves as Earth's early warning system. The main defense force uses technology salvaged from the remains of the alien forces, with military forces assembled on the Moon, Mars, and Rhea, while the Area 51 base has become the Space Defense Headquarters.

In Africa, ESD Director David Levinson meets with Dr. Catherine Marceaux and warlord Dikembe Umbutu, who lead him to an intact alien destroyer. Aboard the ship, they discover that the ship was drilling a hole before the aliens' final defeat and had sent a distress call to its home planet. Furthermore, Umbutu and former U.S. President Thomas Whitmore experienced recurring visions of extraterrestrial logograms ever since their personal encounters with the aliens, and Umbutu is learning how to read them.

A spherical ship emerges from a wormhole near the ESD's Moon defense headquarters. Levinson is convinced that it belongs to a different extraterrestrial race that is benevolent and urges the world's government not to attack, but President Elizabeth Lanford gives permission to shoot it down regardless. Against ESD orders, pilots Jake Morrison and Charles Miller picks up Levinson, Marceaux, Umbutu, and Floyd Rosenberg on a space tug and they head for the crash site, where they recover a container. Suddenly, a alien mothership 3,000 miles wide emerges and destroys the Moon base before approaching Earth. The space tug is caught in the mothership's gravitational pull, which also lifts buildings and structures from most of Asia. The debris falls over Europe where the tug manages to escape, as it passes over London, before heading on to Area 51.

The mothership lands in the north Atlantic Ocean, destroying several cities in the process, including Washington, D.C. Captain Dylan Dubrow-Hiller attempts to rescue his mother, Jasmine, but she dies when the mothership's landing strut makes impact with the hospital she works at. The mothership begins drilling a hole in the middle of the ocean to harvest the heat of the core, which will destroy Earth's magnetic field in the process. The aliens also raid the Cheyenne bunker, in Colorado, killing the President along with most of her Cabinet. General Joshua Adams, a Cabinet official, is named the designated survivor and immediately sworn in as the 46th President.

Upon the space tug's arrival at Area 51, Dr. Brackish Okun wakes up from his twenty-year coma. He proceeds to open the container from the wormhole, which releases a giant white sphere of artificial intelligence. The sphere reveals that it was sent by a party of refugees to help evacuate humanity to a refuge planet from the invading harvesters. Meanwhile, Whitmore interrogates one of the aliens held in captivity since the last war. The ESD learns that the aliens, while similar to Earth's insect kingdom, are not like locusts as they initially believed but exist in eusociality and that their queen is coming. ESD forces, led by Dylan, stage a counter-attack but are caught in a trap within the mothership that disables their weapons and wipes out most of the squadron. Dylan, along with Jake and fellow pilots Charlie Miller and Rain Lao, manage to escape.

Seeing that its activity has alerted the alien queen to its presence, the sphere's A.I. tries to convince the ESD to destroy it in order to prevent the aliens from getting the coordinates to the refuge planet. The remaining ESD forces instead use the space tug as a decoy and put the sphere in an isolation chamber, intending to lure the alien queen's ship to a secluded area to destroy it with nuclear weapons. Against his daughter Patricia's wishes, Whitmore volunteers to pilot the space tug on the suicide mission. During the subsequent battle, Whitmore leads the alien queen's warship to the trap and detonates the bombs, sacrificing himself and destroying the ship with the Queen still inside.

However, the Queen survives using an energy shield on her exoskeleton and heads for area 51. Patricia personally flies a combat jet and destroys the queen's shield projector, allowing Dylan, Jake, Charlie, and Rain to kill the queen before she can destroy the sphere, and the rest of the aliens flee. With the queen dead, the mothership stops drilling and retreats from Earth. Okun reveals that the sphere has asked them to lead a resistance against the aliens and offered them new technology in preparation for an assault on the aliens' home world.

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