Producent Dean Devlin en Roland Emmerich zijn officieel begonnen aan de productie van Independence Day 2. Dit wist Devlin te bevestigen tijdens een interview met The Hollywood Reporter. Devlin zei het volgende:
I can tell you that Roland and I have been working together for the first time in 11 years and were every excited about the idea of doing it. Whether or not we can make this happen, if we can get all the pieces to come together, thats gonna be challenging. But creatively, for the very first time since we did the original, I feel we have a worthy concept, a worthy path to go.
De producent benadrukt dat het niet alleen maar om het geld gaat en dat ze proberen een vervolg te maken die recht doet aan het origineel uit 1996.
We resisted doing the sequel for years because we still wanted to honor the first one. The first one gave us all careers and we really love that movie and loved the experience. We didnt want to make a movie because it was financially a good idea, we only wanted to do it when we had an idea and a concept that creatively felt like it honored the first onethat it felt like an organic sequel as opposed to lets just go make some more money. I feel like we got it. I think it took a long time, but I feel like we finally got something that really feels like, thats worth seeing as a sequel to Independence Day.
Hieronder een trailer voor Independence Day: