by Mackenzie Portfolio

Get the cigars ready because the fat lady hasn’t finished singing! This week film director Dean Devlin posted a photo of him with another familiar face on the set of Independence Day 2.  With the overwhelming number of reboots and trilogy series churning out of Hollywood lately this is one sequel we are genuinely stoked about! And what better way to express our excitement than a Top 10 list counting down the reasons we need this sequel:

10. When ID2 debuts it will have been 20 years since the first film was released! Kids these days probably haven’t even seen the first one. It’s time to introduce this generation to one of the greatest action/alien/pro-American films of our time and teach them to choose their Will Smith and Randy Quaid.

9. TECHNOLOGY! Graphics are a bajillion times better nowadays.  Can you imagine seeing this in IMAX 3D?!  Alien guts spewed all over the screen and practically in your face.  It’ll be so real you may catch the virus this time.

8. ID2 is scheduled to premiere June, 24 2015… the same day as Transformers 5, which I’m fairly certain there wasn’t even a Transformers 4 so we’ll have ID2 to look forward to that weekend.   

7. A female president, people! WHAAAT?! We couldn’t have a female lead in Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and certainly not in real life. I mean if a woman is leading our nation who is in the kitchen making the sandwiches? According to IMDB, Sela Ward will play President Lanford. Not familiar? Do a quick Google search and you’ll say “Oh, that lady!” She certainly looks the part so we’re down with it.

6. A Hemsworth! Liam Hemsworth to be exact. The final film in the Hunger Games series comes out this year and without any Avengers or Thor movies in 2016 we’re going to need at least one of the Hemsworths to get us through the summer. Liam will be playing Jake Morrison but not much is known about his character yet… and does it matter really?

5.5 Alright I figure the guys were less excited about #6 than myself so while I drool over Liam you boys can get excited for Vivica A. Fox! She’s back and this time she’s off the pole and working as a hospital administrator. Is it too much to ask for a naughty nurse uniform? (cough IMAX 3D cough).

5. We’ve got good news and bad news here. The good news is Randy Quaid actually never stopped playing his role as Russell Casse.  The bad news is he won’t be reprising it for the sequel and proceeds from movie sales will not go towards his inevitable bail bond.

4. This is the first time since the last MIB film that we can talk about Will Smith and he’s not even in it! While Smith focuses on the real aliens, Xenu and the Galactic Confederacy, he has given his blessing to let newcomer Jesse Usher play a similar role as Smith’s son in the film.  

3. Oh my God! Bill Pullman’s still alive?! He will be reprising his role as (former) President Whitmore. Can we look forward to another inspirational speech that we can quote every Fourth of July?

2. Jeff Goldblum is reprising his role from the Apartments.com ads as David Levinson! In the words of Levinson we are uh, um, uh, we are uh, VERY excited, yes, VERY excited about this.

And the final reason we’re excited for Independence Day 2…

1. Because, AMERICA! What better way to celebrate our independence than with an explosive, shoot ‘em up, rally the troops and repel an alien invasion sequel! Grab the family and kids and make a weekend out of it.

“We will not go quietly into the night!’ ‘We will not vanish without a fight!’ ‘We’re going to live on!’ ‘We’re going to survive!’ Today we celebrate our Independence Day!”

– President Whitmore