President Thomas Whitmore ( Bill Pullman) starts receiving psychic visions connected to the invaders, Levinson - now the head of the ESD - and others face the return of the invaders, who have also bolstered their forces. Resurgence takes place nearly 20 years after the events of the first Independence Day mankind has managed to reverse-engineer the technology left behind from the first alien invasion, forming the organization known as the Earth Space Defense.
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RELATED: From 'Independence Day' to 'Moonfall': Every Roland Emmerich Movie Ranked Devlin's own career has been a roller coaster of its own while he's found success producing television shows including The Librarians and Leverage, his directorial debut Geostorm was a box office bomb. They would reunite for a single project – Independence Day: Resurgence, the long-awaited sequel to Independence Day.
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Indepndence Day marked a turning point in the pair's fortunes their television series The Visitor was canceled after a single season on Fox and their take on Godzilla was critically and commercially panned. Devlin had previously co-written the scripts for Emmerich's first two films Universal Soldier and Stargate, with the latter spawning an entire franchise comprised of multiple TV shows and other media including comic books and novels. Yet Emmerich's subsequent films - including his latest effort Moonfall - haven't come close to achieving the same cultural impact.Ī large part of that may be due to Emmerich splitting ties with his former creative partner Dean Devlin, with whom he co-wrote Independence Day.
Independence Day was a bonafide phenomenon it managed to marry the two most prominent genres of film at the time into an original story, it featured jaw-dropping imagery such as a laser beam atomizing the White House, and it transformed Smith into a superstar overnight. The fate of humanity lies in the hands of fighter pilot Stephen Hiller ( Will Smith) and satellite technician David Levinson ( Jeff Goldblum), who join their mutual talents together in order to save the world. Directed and co-written by Emmerich, Independence Day features a full-scale alien invasion, with starships the size of cities laying waste to the world. But the king of them all had to be Roland Emmerich's Independence Day.
In the mid-'90s, science fiction and disaster films ruled the box office.