Independence Day: Resurgence Twenty years after alien invaders nearly wiped out mankind, they’re back with a vengeance in this explosive sequel to the original Independence Day! Jeff Goldblum returns as scientist David Levinson, now in charge of the Earth Space Defense program.

Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. But will mankind's new space defenses be enough? Two decades after the freak alien invasion that nearly destroyed mankind a new threat emerges.

Independence Day: Resurgence is a 2016 American science fiction disaster film co-written, directed and co-produced by Roland Emmerich and co-written and co-produced by Dean Devlin, serving as a sequel to Independence Day (1996).