In Area 51, Okun opens the rescued container and releases a giant white sphere of virtual intelligence. An ESD aerial fleet, led by Captain Dylan Hiller, stages a counterattack, but they are caught in a trap within the mothership, leaving only a few survivors, including Dylan, Jake, Charlie, and fellow ESD lieutenant and Chinese pilot Rain Lao. Levinson hypothesizes that if they kill the supervising Queen, her forces will cease drilling and go dormant. They learn that the aliens exist in a hivemind and that one of their colossal Queens is commanding the invasion. General Joshua Adams' groups interrogate one of the aliens held in captivity at Area 51's prison facility from the war. Narrowly escaping death, those on board the space tug are able to avoid capture and return to Area 51. An alien mothership suddenly appears, responding to the distress call, and proceeds to destroy much of Earth's planetary defense systems before landing over the North Atlantic Ocean, where it starts to drill down toward Earth's molten core. They head for the wreckage in the Van de Graaff crater, where they recover a large container. federal controller Floyd Rosenberg on a space tug.
Defying orders, American pilots Jake Morrison and Charlie Miller then pick up Levinson, Marceaux, Umbutu, and U.S.
Brackish Okun, and Umbutu are telepathically linked to the aliens, following personal encounters, and have visions of an unidentified spherical object.Īn unidentified spherical ship emerges from a wormhole near Earth's Moon, and despite objections from Levinson, is destroyed on the orders of the United Nations Security Council. They travel to an intact alien city destroyer and discover that alien survivors sent a distress call to their home world before their defeat. Catherine Marceaux in the African state Republique Nationale d'Umbutu. After establishing Area 51 as its headquarters, the ESD set up bases on the Moon, Mars, and Rhea, and orbital defense satellites above Earth, as fortifications against future invasions.Īs the twentieth anniversary of the invasion approaches, ESD Director David Levinson meets with warlord Dikembe Umbutu and Dr. were rebuilt and modernized with amalgamated technologies.
Civilization has been restored and relative peace among nations exists following the human race's victory over the aliens' attacks, and major cities around the world including Washington D.C. Twenty years after the devastating alien invasion, the United Nations has set up the Earth Space Defense (ESD), a global defense and research program that reverse-engineers alien technology and serves as Earth's early warning system against extraterrestrial threats. Through reverse engineering, the world has fused the power of alien technology with humanity's and laid the groundwork to resist a second invasion. The film takes place twenty years after the events of the first film, during which the United Nations has collaborated to form Earth Space Defense, an international military defense and research organization. A sequel to the 1996 film Independence Day, it stars an ensemble cast featuring Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Jessie Usher, Travis Tope, William Fichtner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Judd Hirsch, Brent Spiner, Angelababy and Sela Ward. Independence Day: Resurgence is a 2016 American epic science fiction disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Emmerich, Dean Devlin, Nicolas Wright, James A.