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We should at least get a Randy Quaid alien in the sequel. Could you imagine an army of Randy Quaid aliens?![]()

We should at least get a Randy Quaid alien in the sequel. Could you imagine an army of Randy Quaid aliens?![]()
Ok, an ID sequel I can get behind (despite it's disappointing lack of Will Smith-iness). But THREE ID sequels, IDK about that. The plot was already simple enough in the first film (which worked fine), but how do you spread that out over four films without it getting repetitive?
So Roger from American Dad is going to be in this?
Singapore-Chinese actor Chin Han (Marco Polo, The Dark Knight) has joined the cast of Independence Day 2, which is now shooting in New Mexico.
After Independence Day redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global catastrophe on an unimaginable scale. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.
Makes me wonder how powerful China is in that fictional universe. China really wasn't on the radar as a global superpower in 1996, and may have suffered proportionally less damage than the United States and the other countries referenced in ID4, so they may have been able to rebuild bigger and faster than everybody else.
If they want to be rigorous, Japan and Germany are probably very powerful.
That's okay I guess, nothing bad ever happened in the world when those two countries were the world's superpowers while the United States was intensely focussed on rebuilding itself.
The first movie had every other country just, sitting on their asses and waiting for MERRICCAA to save the day. Given Emmerich's track record, I doubt that any other country comes out of this looking good.