On July 2nd, 1996, an enormous alien mothership arrives in the orbit of the Earth and deploys multiple saucers, each fifteen-miles wide that take positions over some of Earth's major cities.ĭavid Levinson, an MIT-trained satellite technician, decodes a signal embedded within global satellite transmissions that he determines is the aliens' countdown timer for a coordinated attack. The film's success led to a sequel, in which it was released 20 years later, on June 24th, 2016. It holds the 25th highest worldwide gross of a movie all-time. The movie's combined domestic and international box office gross is $816,969,268, which at one point was the second-highest worldwide gross of all-time. The film was scheduled for release on July 3, 1996, but due to the high level of anticipation for the movie, many theaters began showing it on the evening of July 2, 1996, the same day the film begins. Principal photography for the film began in July 1995 in New York City, and the film was officially completed on June 20, 1996. He and Devlin decided to incorporate a large-scale attack when noticing that aliens in most invasion films travel long distances in space only to remain hidden when reaching Earth. While promoting Stargate in Europe, Emmerich came up with the idea for the film when fielding a question about his own belief in the existence of alien life.

With the entire people of the world, they launch a desperate all-out counterattack on July 4 – the same date as the Independence Day holiday in the United States. The film focus on a a hostile alien invasion of Earth, forcing disparate groups of people who converge in the Nevada desert.

Independence Day (also known by its promotional abbreviation ID4) is a 1996 epic science fiction action film directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich and starring an ensemble cast that includes Jeff Goldblum, Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn, and Harvey Fierstein. On July 4th, we fight back.' ― ID4 tagline

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