Roland Emmerich has destroyed the planet more times than we’ve had hot dinners, and we’ve had at least ten hot dinners. Shares in reconstruction firms will be skyrocketing again at the sight of this first concept art from his latest blockbuster, the freshly unveiled **Independence Day Resurgence. Yes, our favourite Stuttgarter has found a way to blow up gravity too. Click on the image, exclusive to the issue of **Empire, for a closer look at the eyeball-dazzling mayhem in store. **Independence Day Resurgence **is set 20 years after the events of the original, with humanity banding together to fight off a new wave of alien invaders. "We call it in the film the War of '96," said the director at the film’s unveiling. “It’s like a post-World generation that’s unified, and that's amazing to see a world come together with a common enemy. That's a resurgence.”
Like every Irwin Allen film all at once, this concept art shows the military piloting an alien craft through what was once a city but now looks a lot more like the third act of Age Of Ultron writ large. “The world is totally rebuilt,” expands the director in the new issue of Empire. “They had alien technology and anti-gravity, so they could rebuild quite fast. Imagine what we would do with alien technology and who would have it.”
Emmerich is keeping his aliens under wraps for the time being, but does explain this urban disintegration with referring to the extra-terrestrial's huge city-destroying weapons based on the moons of the solar system. That might also explain the Moon Tug Liam Hemsworth’s character, Jake, will be piloting in the movie. Some kind of countermeasure, perhaps? We'll see.
Emmerich is currently corralling a cast that includes the returning Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox, Brent Spiner, and ID newbies Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jessie Usher, Maika Monroe and Sela Ward.
Find out more in the new issue of Empire, including a look at the alien craft, when it hits newsstands on June 25. Independence Day Resurgence arrives on June 24, 2016. Lock up your breakables.