After working together on Universal Soldier, then Stargate, Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin continue their collaboration by depicting the impact of an extraterrestrial invasion on Earth. In 30 days, they jointly wrote the script for Independence Day.
The budget of the project produced by Fox is 95 million dollars. It’s enough to impress audiences with its mix of sci-fi and disaster movies. Spaceships, explosions, battles in space… everything goes there, even the White House, during an impressive sequence of destruction!
With only one shoot planned for D-Day over the course of a week, the scene was conceived with a miniature version of the famous American building, measuring 3m by 1.5m, entirely in plaster, mostly shot from a low angle in 300 shots. per second (for normal film it is 24 frames per second).
On a trip to Youngstown the day the film was released in 1996, US President Bill Clinton – who had seen it in advance – quipped during an interview: “If I’m here and not in Washington, it’s because the White House is supposed to be destroyed by aliens today! I hope it’s still here when I get back.”
Oscar winner for Best Visual Effects, independence Day It grossed $817 million worldwide – a score that made it the world’s biggest box office hit. In France, the film attracted 5.6 million viewers in cinemas.
independence Day Roland Emmerich with Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum…
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