Independence Day: Resurgence (2016) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Release, runtime and language

2016 · 2 h · English

Directed by

Roland Emmerich

Starring

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Bill Pullman

Budget

$165M

After the world recovered the alien wreckage, nations pooled the salvaged technology into a massive global defense program, hoping to deter a return. When an even more advanced alien fleet arrives, its unprecedented assault overwhelms Earth's defenses, leaving only a handful of brilliant pilots, scientists and soldiers to devise a daring plan that could pull humanity back from the brink of extinction.