It's almost 20 years following the release of Independence Day and now Fox has finally decided to create sequel to the hit film with a release date on guess when? The Fourth of July next year of course.

Independence Day 2 movie plot will be picking up in real-time, around 20 years after the first movie was released. Co-writers Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, who's also be helming the sequel, revealed that the film will take place in an alternate present-day set up, where the humans have spent the past 20 years yielding the alien technology, which was featured from the first film.

"The humans knew that one day the aliens would come back. And they know that the only way you can really travel in space is through wormholes. So for the aliens, it could take two or three weeks, but for us that's 20 or 25 years."

Despite Independence Day 2 being set 20 years following the events of the original film, the sequel will distinctly feature a futuristic theme, basing on the scenario from the first film, where the humans discovered advanced technology from the aliens.

 "It's a changed world. It's like parallel history. [Humans] have harnessed all this alien technology. We don't know how to duplicate it because it's organically-grown technology, but we know how to take an antigravity device and put it in a human airplane."

Emmerich also revealed that the sequel will be having new cast members on board.

"It's still some of the same characters, but also new younger characters; it's a little bit like the sons take over. The first one ends on a little success, but only enough to give the humans hope. And then in the second one they free themselves again [from the aliens]."

However, Independence Day 2 movie plot has excluded original star Will Smith, but why?

According to the film's original writer and now director Roland Emmerich, during his interview with NY Daily News:

"Will Smith can not come back because he's too expensive, but he'd also be too much of a marquee name. It would be too much. We have like maybe half of the people that you know would know from the first film (in the script) and the other half people who are new."

Coincidentally, Smith made it known that he's in a strict "no sequel" policy for which he did not want to turn into "the sequel guy." However, many of his rumored films are actually follow-ups of his successful movies ie, Bad Boys 3, Hancock 2 and I Am Legend 2 to name a few.

Although, Will Smith will not be back for the sequel half of the original characters are expected to make a comeback, with half of them being new character. President Thomas J. Whitmore played by Bill Pullman with MIT graduate who became a cable repairman Dave Levinson played by "Jurassic Park" star Jeff Goldblum, who's very much willing to offer his services for the film, will be reprising their roles for the sequel.

"They've talked to me about it, and I've talked to them about it and they're excited and I'm anxious and eager to see - I haven't read anything. I think they're trying to put it together."

According to Devlin and Emmerich, Independence Day 2 movie plot is actually a two-part narrative arch, under the working title Independence Day Forever Part I & II.

"I think [Fox] decided to only do one first," says Emmerich, while White House Down's writer James Vanderbilt will do the polishing of the script.

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