Liam Hemsworth Offered ‘Independence Day’ Sequel
By Angie Han/Jan. 27, 2015 12:43 pm EST
Hemsworth is best known for playing Katniss’ BFF / love interest Gale in The Hunger Games series, which concludes this fall with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2. Outside of Panem, his credits include the Nicholas Sparks romance The Last Song, and the action thrillers The Expendables 2, Paranoia, and Empire State.
Emmerich revealed in 2013 that ID Forever will pick up about two decades after the events of the original. Two Earth decades, anyway — it might be a different case for the aliens. He explains:
He also stated at the time that the characters will be a mix of familiar faces and new ones. The casting so far bears that out. Here’s Emmerich again:
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….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.
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].
