Īnd if you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called “If You Only Read 6 Things This Week”. If you would like to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Culture, head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter. But it also arrives at a moment when nostalgia for the 1990s, a time when Jeff Goldblum could be a go-to blockbuster leading man, is at an all-time high.Ĭan a film from 1996 reinvent itself for 2016? In the video above, the BBC’s Peter Bowes visited the set of the new movie in New Mexico to find out and spoke to Emmerich and stars Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Liam Hemsworth, Vivica A Fox and Maika Monroe. Independence Day: Resurgence may appear to be the odd film out in such an environment. Ordinary sequels are no longer good enough – today movie studios try to build long series of interconnected films, or ‘cinematic universes’, usually involving people with superpowers. The idea of an iconic landmark such as the Empire State Building being destroyed, as it was in the first film, is fraught with a greater sense of tragedy following the attacks of 11 September 2001. Now, nearly all blockbusters, including Independence Day: Resurgence, are drenched in computer-generated images. Humanity suspects the aliens may return – and this time, they’re ready.īlockbuster film-making has changed drastically in the 20 years since the original film, which relied on practical effects and model work for some of its most dazzling moments. That unity of humanity against a shared threat has lasted and resulted in technological advances far surpassing those of our world. Resurgence imagines an alternate reality, in which The War of ’96 caused history to diverge dramatically from our own. The original film showed how an extinction-level threat to all of humanity, such as an invasion of bloodthirsty extra-terrestrials, might cause people to put aside their national, ethnic, racial and religious differences to work together for survival.
And they waited because Emmerich wanted to tell a different kind of story. But Emmerich and 20th Century Fox did wait 20 years before releasing a sequel – a staggeringly long time in Hollywood, considering that the original film grossed over $800 million (£272 million) worldwide. That may seem a surprising statement from the director of Independence Day: Resurgence, the sequel to the 1996 blockbuster about humanity’s valiant struggle against an alien invasion. It can be discouraging to make big movies. “It always has to be a franchise, it has to have a superhero name in front of it. “What I miss is original movies,” says director Roland Emmerich.
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