Ready to celebrate another Independence Day?
The movie world was taken aback (in the most awesome way possible!) on the afternoon of December 13, 2015 when a trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence quietly appeared on screen in the middle of a football game.
Oh, yes, there is going to be a sequel to Independence Day, people!
The follow-up to 1996’s smash hit will bring back original stars Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum ad Vivica A. Fox, though Will Smith will sadly not make an appearance.
We had previously chronicled the whereabouts of the Independence Day cast, wondering where they are now… and here’s your answer:
Many of them are teaming up for a sequel we never saw coming!
"We found something out here, something only you might understand," says a woman in the trailer, to which Goldblum’s Jeff Levinson replied upon arrival:
"On my God."
Ever since that July 4, 1996 invasion, Levinson has apparently led a group of united humans in developing a defense program to protect the planet against what he believed would be an inevitable return.
As for Smith’s Captain Hiller?
A message on the movie’s official website says he tragically died while testing a new fighter jet.
"We always knew they would come back," the trailer reads. "But nothing can prepare us for when they arrive."
Does anyone else have goose bumps right now or is it just us?