'Independence Day: Resurgence' Posts a Lengthy Trailer
Will Smith may have opted to sit this fight out, but other veterans like Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Vivica A. Fox, Brent Spiner, and Judd Hirsch—as well as Liam Hemsworth’s new hero—are ready to go again in Independence Day: Resurgence’s extended third trailer (watch it above). Good thing too, because the invading aliens are also back in force to threaten life as we know it in director Roland Emmerich’s follow-up to his 1996 monument-obliterating blockbuster.
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The new clip clocks in at nearly five minutes, and has more of the intergalactic carnage and chaos one might expect from its premise, in which the previous sci-fi saga’s extraterrestrials—having been defeated by Earth’s forces and, in particular, the heroic kamikaze actions of Randy Quaid’s pilot—return for a rematch. If you’re expecting copious CGI explosions, frantic aerial battles, and momentous speechifying, this latest advance peek hits all those buttons, and suggests Emmerich and co-writer/producer Dean Devlin are aiming to deliver more of what made the first Independence Day such a gigantic hit (minus, of course, Smith, who originally became a global star thanks in part to his participation in that film).
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It’s difficult to imagine Resurgence matching its predecessor’s $817 million global haul (which made it 1996’s biggest box-office hit), but never underestimate audiences’ appetite for watching invading aliens destroy America’s most hallowed landmarks. The film arrives in theaters on June 24.
Watch a trailer for the original ‘Independence Day’:
