Independence Day: Resurgence is a 2016 American science fiction

film written and directed by Roland Emmerich with co-writers Dean Devlin,
Nicolas Wright, James A. Woods, and James Vanderbilt. As 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 and Sela Ward.

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 (ESD),
an international military defense and research organization. Through reverse
engineering, the world has harnessed the power of alien technology and laid
the groundwork to resist a second invasion.

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