The Conjuring‘s Joey King and Brent Spiner (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”) have joined Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day 2.
Spiner will return to the franchise as Dr. Brackish Okun. How does he return being that he was killed by the alien in Area 51? That’s truly going to be interesting. My guess is he’ll appear on some videos uncovered from Area 51, although a character did imply he was only in a coma. So, yeah, they were already planning this sequel back in 1996…
With Bill Pullman, Jessie T. Usher, Jeff Goldblum, and Liam Hemsworth recently joining the cast, our insiders recently revealed the plot that syncs up perfectly with the first film’s 20th anniversary.
Independence Day 2, which we also learned is being dubbed ID Forever, takes place 20 years after the 1996 films in which aliens attacked Earth. In the follow up, alien reinforcements come to Earth 20 years after a distress call was sent out by the first wave of extraterrestrials.
We can also confirm that Independence Day Forever is going into production as “Part 1” of a new series.
Shooting begins this coming May in Montreal.
20th Century Fox will release on June 24, 2016.