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Independence Day: Resurgence novelization is out and...(UNMARKED SPOILERS!)

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Rhomega Beta

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Well this is going to be fun. Also started reading Crucible myself (the in-between novel). Starts off talking about people who survived the 2-day invasion, now Stephen Hiller is fighting alien survivors who are using their tentacles to control humans to use SAMs.
 
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mulac

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Read it - thank you for posting.

Will still go see it on release date.

It sounds like the perfect bid stupid popcorn blockbuster action visual garbage we've been needing in this sea of super-hero movies.
 
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rec0ded1

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Such a deep message. The wheels on the bus go round and round just like the violent universe we live in. Welcome to earth indeed.
 
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ExVicis

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rec0ded1 said:
Such a deep message. The wheels on the bus go round and round just like the violent universe we live in. Welcome to earth indeed.
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Independence Day 2 was never going to have a deep message. It was always gonna be nonsense alien invasion disaster porn and that's honestly the entire appeal to it. Not any sort of deep resonating message.
 
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rec0ded1

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ExVicis said:
Independence Day 2 was never going to have a deep message. It was always gonna be nonsense alien invasion disaster porn and that's honestly the entire appeal to it. Not any sort of deep resonating message.
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Yeah I know, I was making a bad joke about the wheels on the bus.
 
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razzmahtazz

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Sound goods! HYPE!

Only problem I have with it is Whitmore's death. Hopefully they change that for the movie. That death should be the crescendo, not the school bus.
 
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Draven143

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A sphere who knows everything, the key to limitless power. Interstellar travel. Invading aliens. The darkness. Sooo, it's Destiny right? But with more of a story.
 
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Mr Swine

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Draven143 said:
A sphere who knows everything, the key to limitless power. Interstellar travel. Invading aliens. The darkness. Sooo, it's Destiny right? But with more of a story.
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A sphere that holds an entire race that was physically eradicated from the aliens. Kinda like uploading our minds to the Internet
 
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Brakke

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Draven143 said:
A sphere who knows everything, the key to limitless power. Interstellar travel. Invading aliens. The darkness. Sooo, it's Destiny right? But with more of a story.
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I hope you don't think that Destiny originated any of those things. Or even all those things together.
 
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sphagnum

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The third movie sounds like it's going to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

I'm only disappointed they didn't decide to rotate the holiday theme. This one should've been called Veterans Day (although then it couldn't be a summer release I guess) and then the third one could have been called Memorial Day.
 
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Razgriz-Specter

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Bobby Roberts said:
Okay but Will Smith ain't shit anymore.
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Eh, After Earth was the last blockbuster Smith has been in.
It was an awful movie on top of nobody wanting to see a movie with him pushing his son's career.
The year before that was Men in Black 3 which did well and he basically carried solo,
He honestly has 1 blockbuster flub lately going back to 2000 with AfterEarth.

Something like concussion was never going to do that well regardless of who is in it or potentially how great it could be.
 
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Bobby Roberts

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Razgriz-Specter said:
The year before that was Men in Black 3 which did well
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Men in Black 3 was a turd.
Concussion was bad.
Focus was not good
Seven Pounds was shit
Hancock and I Am Legend were alright.

You gotta go back 10 years to get to the last legitimately decent performance in anything. And even then, you go back any farther and you wind up stumbling into bullshit like Hitch and I, Robot.

He's been fucking up.
 
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Sesuadra

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DAMN independence day 3 will be a space travel, other species meeting fest.

I hope it will be a space opera movie.

sphagnum said:
The third movie sounds like it's going to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

I'm only disappointed they didn't decide to rotate the holiday theme. This one should've been called Veterans Day (although then it couldn't be a summer release I guess) and then the third one could have been called Memorial Day.
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but it's not about america anymore. it's now about the chosen human race. >_>...
lol who am I kidding.
 
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liquidtmd

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In for the HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY and a School bus saving the day

I want Independence Day 3 to start with the Alien homeworld with the Aliens acting all chill and then...a shadow...

Earth spaceships towering over the landmarks and blowing them the fuck up.
 
Aggelos

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So it seems that they are sticking to the original plan, to see the ID franchise as a trilogy.
In an interview Roland Emmerich had mentioned that the 1st sequel would end in a sort of cliffhanger. But that was when Will Smith was still considered as part of the story.
Maybe the idea to have ID Resurgence end with a cliffhanger hasn't changed after all.

IDR seems to be 2 hrs and 30 mins long
http://www.fandango.com/independenceday:resurgence_165895/movieoverview



In March 2013, Emmerich stated that the titles of the new films would be ID Forever Part I and ID Forever Part II. The films will take place twenty years after the original, when reinforcements of the original alien race arrive at Earth after finally receiving a distress call. The new films will focus on the next generation of heroes, including the stepson of Smith's character in the original film. In May 2013, Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin mentioned that wormholes would be used as a plot device in ID Forever. On November 26, 2014, Deadline confirmed that Fox had greenlit the single film, and they were in talks with Emmerich to direct the film, while casting was reported to begin after Emmerich's confirmation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day:_Resurgence


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Dash_Riprock

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Draven143 said:
A sphere who knows everything, the key to limitless power. Interstellar travel. Invading aliens. The darkness. Sooo, it's Destiny right? But with more of a story.
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Actually the first thing I thought of was Michael Crichton's novel Sphere, which came out in the 80s.
 
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mariachi507

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I give them credit for not being a complete copy of the original. Hopefully there will be moments in the film where characters get a little downtime to reflect and shit, I really liked that aspect of the original.

I will say, this is one crazy sounding summer blockbuster. It could be either amazing or awful. Maybe both?

Last thing, whatever happened to Bill Pullman's voice?
 
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freenudemacusers

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So basically earth, the moon and Saturn get fucked up and we get a few America fuck yeahs scattered throughout. Sold. Day one.

Edit: and shiiiitt and the universe resistance stuff. Incredible.
 
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Ohwiseone

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This sounds like a fun time. Which is all I expect it to be. A fun 2 hours with Jeff goldblum chewing scenery the whole time.

I think the novelization sounds awesome.

I also hope whoever is the new composer reuses that Independence Day theme.
 
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Nordic4tKnight

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Pineapple said:
Yeah, after reading the OP I can now pick out every scene in pretty much every trailer. But the Queen should be a complete surprise.

The sphere isn't shown, though, so maybe they're banking on that being the big surprise.
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Yep I bet it is the sphere and it's ship which arrives first.
 
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Kusagari

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The stuff involving the queen sounds like it will either be ridiculously awesome or ridiculously terrible.

Either way it sounds entertaining.
 
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Bobby Roberts

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Pineapple said:
Yeah, after reading the OP I can now pick out every scene in pretty much every trailer. But the Queen should be a complete surprise.
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Nah, most of the ads have shown some sort of giant monster's foot coming down. A literal big-bad was pretty easy to guess, that it's an Alien Queen (even has the headpiece) won't be much of a surprise.
 
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Dash_Riprock

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Lan Dong Mik said:
Haha well story in the op certainly checks out. School bus driving under the queen in a few different shots in this trailer. Though I'm not sure how that little school bus is going to run over her head. Queen is fucking massive.

Can't wait
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Remember, thats just the biomech armor. Actual queen inside it is a lot smaller (though still fucking huge).
 
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