Independence Daybegins with massive hovering alien vessels lingering over the major cities of the world.
Director Roland Emmerich returns to theIndependence Dayuniverse with this summers sequel,Resurgence.
Twenty years later, the nemesis has gotten stronger.
The Mothership comes to Earth, the director explains, And it spans the Atlantic Ocean.
Emmerich talked to EW about some of the concepts underpinning the sequel.
I always say, its a post-war world, he says.
We call [the first movie] the War of 96.
But its also kind of clear that they were going to come back.
So weve stayed unified.
Emmerich sees this as a mildly optimistic alternate vision of recent history.
To show how much we can accomplish.
What happens if the humans win the war of 2016?
Sequel potential: The Atlantic Ocean is actually smaller than the Pacific Ocean.
After the Mothership…theGrandmothership?
