History Trivia / IndependenceDayResurgence

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $165 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $103 million (domestic), $390 million (worldwide). Which is nowhere near, [[ToughActToFollow the record-breaking total the first film did back in 1996 ($817 million).]] The film also had the unfortunate timing to come out with a slew of other tentpoles such as ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', ''The BFG'', ''The Legend of Tarzan'', as well as being released in the UK around the time of the Brexit decision. (with ''London'' victim of destruction, to boot!)

* CreatorBacklash: In November 2019, Roland Emmerich admitted in an interview that [[https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/independence-day-director-roland-emmerich-regrets-making-sequel-170655100.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVwbGF5bGlzdC5uZXQvaW5kZXBlbmRlbmNlLWRheS1yZXN1cmdlbmNlLXJlZ3JldHMtMjAxOTExMDQv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAh68baGxyNLKlImmxyYgm1JOzttB8LOZI_qLmFOj_gR0ZlKoFBFbzgk1vr3ZOePKLyXkg7oHx4_hRlnp_xevevFnPCzNgKqMS0r_xprBsAP52lx32yQK2RicbNfQltbaKubcPcm5ahs2I4PBm92sH2ZTV79Tm12T81rxoPNz3YZ he "regrets" not cancelling development on the film]] after Creator/WillSmith dropped out.

** The MonumentalDamage sequence involving Singapore and London was written as Dubai and Paris. The latter was changed following the November 2015 attacks.

** Creator/MaeWhitman and Ross Bagley are replaced with Maika Monroe and Creator/JessieTUsher as the President's daughter Patricia and Steven and Jasmine's son Dylan respectively. No explanation was given for the change.
*** Out-of-universe, recasting Dylan is understandable given that Ross Bagley hadn't acted in more than a decade before this film came out, but recasting Patricia is a headscratcher as Mae Whitman is a popular and successful actress with quite a bit of name recognition.

* McLeaned: Creator/RolandEmmerich wanted Creator/WillSmith to return as his character, but he turned out to be too expensive, plus he was busy shooting ''Film/SuicideSquad2016''. As a result, Steve Hiller is said to have died in an accident with the alien-tech fighter jets.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $165 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $103 million (domestic so far), $390 million (worldwide so far). Which is nowhere near, [[ToughActToFollow the record-breaking total the first film did back in 1996 ($817 million).]] The film also had the unfortunate timing to come out with a slew of other tentpoles such as ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', ''The BFG'', ''The Legend of Tarzan'', as well as being released in the UK around the time of the Brexit decision. (with ''London'' victim of destruction, to boot!)

* FranchiseKiller: This remains to be seen, though producer Dean Devlin confided in a March 2018 interview that he currently has no plans for the long-rumored third film in the series and the Disney acquisition of 20th Century Fox makes it even less certain.

** Creator/MaeWhitman and Ross Bagley are replaced with Maika Monroe and Jessie Usher as the President's daughter Patricia and Steven and Jasmine's son Dylan respectively. No explanation was given for the change.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $165 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $103 million (domestic so far), $390 million (worldwide so far). While respectable by current standards, [[ToughActToFollow it doesn't reach the record-breaking totals the first film did ($817 million).]] The film also had the unfortunate timing to come out with a slew of other tentpoles such as ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', ''The BFG'', ''The Legend of Tarzan'', as well as being released in the UK around the time of the Brexit decision. (with ''London'' victim of destruction, to boot!)

** Creator/RolandEmmerich wanted Creator/WillSmith to return as his character, but he was written out for being too expensive.

* PosthumousRole: The film was released shortly after Robert Loggia's (General Grey) death in 2015, and the film is dedicated to him.

* FranchiseKiller: This remains to be seen, though producer Dean Devlin confided in a March 2018 interview that he currently has no plans for the long-rumored third film in the series.

* CelebrityParadox: Defied. David Levinson and Creator/JeffGoldblum [[http://youtu.be/SyEcjLFZ0Q8 merely look alike]], their existence isn't mutually exclusive.

* SequelGap: 20 years. Roland Emmerich even noted it by saying that during the interim mankind would have rebuilt all the destroyed cities, and TimeDilation would allow the aliens to travel across the galaxy.

** Director Roland Emmerich wanted Creator/WillSmith to return as his character, but he was written out for being too expensive.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $165 million (not counting marketing costs). Box office, $103 million (domestic so far), $380 million (worldwide so far). While respectable by current standards, [[ToughActToFollow it doesn't reach the record-breaking totals the first film did ($817 million).]] The film also had the unfortunate timing to come out with a slew of other tentpoles such as ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', ''The BFG'', ''The Legend of Tarzan'', as well as being released in the UK around the time of the Brexit decision. (with ''London'' victim of destruction, to boot!)

* FranchiseKiller: This remains to be seen, though producer Dean Devlin recently confided in a March 2018 interview that he currently has no plans for the long-rumored third film in the series.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Plans for a sequel of the original movie have been in talks since the first movie became a smash hit back in 1996, but only until recently the director came with an idea on how to continue the story.

* StillbornFranchise: Was widely expected to spawn a third film and perhaps even more movies over time, but its relatively poor critical and box office reception combined with Dean Devlin's aforementioned statements has cast huge doubts on the possibility of further sequels.

* CastingGag:
** Overlapping with RelationshipVoiceActor in the Japanese dub with ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and by default, ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', being both works that deals with humans fighting an alien invasion: Creator/MegumiHayashibara (Rei Ayanami) voices Catherine Marceaux, Creator/MaayaSakamoto (Mari Illustrious Makinami) voices Patricia Whitmore, Creator/YurikoYamaguchi (Ritsuko Akagi) as President Lanford, Creator/AkiraIshida (Kaworu Nagisa) as Charlie Miller, Creator/FumihikoTachiki (Gendo Ikari) as General Adams, Motomu Kiyokawa (Kozo Fuyutsuki) as Julius Levinson and Creator/HochuOtsuka (Shiro Tokida, the Jet Alone guy) as David Levinson.
** The Spanish dub followed the same trend: Dylan was voiced by David Jenner (Kaworu Nagisa in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion''), Julius was voiced by Joan Massotkleiner (Gendo Ikari in ''The End of Evangelion'' and ''Rebuild''), Rain Lao by Creator/NuriaTrifol (Maya Ibuki), Catherine by Marta Barbará (Mari Illustrious Makinami), Armand by Jordi Ribes (Kozo Fuyutsuki) and Captain Mcquaide by Tasio Alonso (Ryoji Kaji in ''Rebuild'').

* CastingGag: Overlapping with RelationshipVoiceActor in the Japanese dub with ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and by default, ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', being both works that deals with humans fighting an alien invasion: Creator/MegumiHayashibara (Rei Ayanami) voices Catherine Marceaux, Creator/MaayaSakamoto (Mari Illustrious Makinami) voices Patricia Whitmore, Creator/YurikoYamaguchi (Ritsuko Akagi) as President Lanford, Creator/AkiraIshida (Kaworu Nagisa) as Charlie Miller, Creator/FumihikoTachiki (Gendo Ikari) as General Adams, Motomu Kiyokawa (Kozo Fuyutsuki) as Julius Levinson and Creator/HochuOtsuka (Shiro Tokida, the Jet Alone guy) as David Levinson.

* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/MaeWhitman and Ross Bagley are replaced with Maika Monroe and Jessie Usher as the President's daughter Patricia and Steven and Jasmine's son Dylan respectively. No explanation has been given for the change.
** In the Japanese dub, Motomu Kiyokawa replace the late Creator/IchiroNagai as the dub voice of Julius Levinson.

* TroubledProduction: Nowhere as conflicted as the trope implies, but at one point, the production had to be shut down for a week due to the budget running out, with actors and crew essentially on standby until the studio refunded it.

* CastingGag: Overlapping with RelationshipVoiceActor in the Japanese dub with ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and by default, ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', being both works that deals with humans fighting an alien invasion: Creator/MegumiHayashibara (Rei Ayanami) voices Catherine Marceaux, Creator/MaayaSakamoto (Mari Illustrious Makinami) voices Patricia Whitmore, Creator/YurikoYamaguchi (Ritsuko Akagi) as President Lanford, Creator/AkiraIshida (Kaworu Nagisa) as Charlie Miller, Creator/FumihikoTachiki (Gendo Ikari) as General Adams, Motomu Kiyokawa (Kozo Fuyutsuki) as Julius Levinson and Creator/HochuOtsuka (Shiro Tokida, the Jet Alone guy) as David Levinson

* SequelGap: 20 years. Roland Emmerich even justified by saying that in-between mankind would have rebuilt all the destroyed cities, and TimeDilation would allow the aliens to travel across the galaxy.

** One early story for the film was quite different than what ended up on screen: [[spoiler: [[http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/guest-editor-roland-emmerich-answers-questions/ According to an interview with Empire Magazine]], it had humanity accidentally shoot down another alien ship, only to have the aliens land on the White House Lawn at the end of the film and say that they came in peace, which was supposedly the big theme of the film. Given how Sphere is introduced in the film, at least a germ of that idea remained.]]

* CelebrityParadox: Defied. David Levinson and Creator/JeffGoldblum [[http://youtu.be/SyEcjLFZ0Q8 merely look alive]], their existence isn't mutually exclusive.