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23rd June 2015 - First Look Photos and Official Key Art
10th June 2015 - Gbenga Akinnagbe Joins Cast
Gbenga Akinnagbe has joined the cast of Roland Emmerich’s action sequel Independence Day 2. He will play Agent Travis, a Secret Service agent detailed to former President Whitmore (Bill Pullman).
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27th May 2015 - Synopsis Revealed
We always knew they were coming back. 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.
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8th May 2015 - DeObia Oparei Joins cast
DeObia Oparei, the UK actor who plays King Doran’s captain of the guard Areo Hotah on HBO’s Game Of Thrones, has booked a role in 20th Century Fox’s Independence Day 2.
Oparei will play Dikembe, the Oxford-educated son of an African warlord.
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5th May 2015 - Sela Ward Set To Play POTUS
A woman in the White House? You bet. At least in the movies. Sela Ward is set to play the current President of the United States, President Lanford, in Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day 2. The CSI: NY favorite will reunite with Emmerich as they last worked together on 20th Century Fox’s The Day After Tomorrow. She last appeared at Fox in the box office champ Gone Girl from David Fincher.
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29th April 2015 - Maika Monroe gets female lead
Maika Monroe, the star of horror breakout It Follows, has nabbed the female lead of Fox’s high-profile Independence Day sequel.
Roland Emmerich is directing the project, which has a mix of old and new faces: Liam Hemsworth, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Jessie Usher are joining the cast, while Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman and Judd Hirsch are reprising their roles from the 1994 original.
If a deal goes through, Monroe will play the daughter of the president of the United States, played by Pullman. She also would be the love interest of Hemsworth’s character.
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3rd March 2015 - Jessie Usher Cast
Jessie Usher (Survivor’s Remorse) has been cast in Independence Day 2. Usher will play a central character, who is the son of Will Smith’s character from the original film. Roland Emmerich will be returning to direct. The film is set for release on June 24, 2016, almost exactly 20 years from when the first film was released.
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18th April 2014 - Will Smith will not appear
Cast-wise, Independence Day 2 is expected to bring back characters from the first film – like former U.S. president Thomas J. Whitmore (Bill Pullman) and MIT graduate-turned cable repairman Dave Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) – but Captain Steven Hiller (Will Smith) won’t be among them. Similarly, the cast will be half new characters, some of whom may become more prominently featured in a third installment (assuming the first sequel is a satisfactory box office hit).
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Really looking forward to this and the Stargate films! Even though I despise Emmerich for the way he spoke about SG1/SGA/SGU.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather he went to work on the Stargate films tbh
ReplyDeleteMaika Monroe was really great in It Follows.
ReplyDeleteWhy recast Mae Whitman?
ReplyDeleteNot "hot" enough for you Hollywood?
100 percent agreed. With no disrespect to Maika Monroe.
ReplyDeleteAgreed on the "no disrespect to Maika Monroe".
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen her in anything, but I know she's not remotely responsible for this, and I hope she does well.
But I can't condone the producers and the studio and and the director for making this decision, unless they did in fact approach Mae, and she was either unavailable or not interested. That's the only reason this recast is acceptable.
I really wanted Mae to be in this movie.
ReplyDeleteSela Ward? Niiiiice!
ReplyDeleteRe the DeObia Oparei casting
ReplyDeleteFirstly: Prince Doran!
Secondly: iiiiiiiintersting... Glad they're making the threat more universal.
That and she did damn fine voice work on Avatar. Know it's not really relevant. I just really liked in the role.
ReplyDeleteIt's not relevant to what I'm trying to say at all actually...
ReplyDeleteHollywood beauty standards are bullshit. If that is the reason in Mae's case. But we don't know.
ReplyDeleteWell all indications point to that... She was the only one recast with an actress who is more Hollywood standard pretty, in spite of her still being an active working actor, who recently gathered good press and was a good box office success in headlining a movie. And there were tweets indicating she wasn't even approached...
ReplyDeleteSo it's suspicious...
It is indeed.
ReplyDeleteNow bring me Mars Attack two. I love that movie xD
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