Big Ships For Independence Day: Resurgence

In the original Independence Day movie, you had ships the size of cities released from a Mothership the size of a country.  For the upcoming sequel “Independence Day: Resurgence,” filmmaker Roland Emmerich says they’ll get even bigger, the director telling EW that: “The Mothership comes to Earth, and it spans the Atlantic Ocean.”

Talking about the return of the creatures in the follow-up, he notes that the aliens are practically on steroids when they return to take their revenge on the human race. The new film will reflect a post-war tone in keeping in line with the events of the first movie which left many major cities wiped out:

“I always say, it’s a post-war world. We call [the first movie] the War of ’96. Which we won. But it’s also kind of clear that they were going to come back. So we’ve stayed unified. In these days when our world is so not united, this is a very poignant thing to do in a movie. To show how much we can accomplish.”

“Independence Day: Resurgence” comes to cinemas on June 24th.