i got this from an online blog
http://www.adamyoshida.com/2003_09_01_archive.html
Independence Day 2
I read that Independence Day 2 had been contemplated, but abandoned. I wrote up a little summary of what I'd like to see in it.
Independence Day 2:
By Adam Teiichi Yoshida
We begin nearly ten years after the first Independence Day, in June of 2005. The world has spent a decade rebuilding. When all was said and done, nearly one hundred million Americans died in the Great Invasion. The toll elsewhere was higher still (roughly five hundred million died in the invasion- and a billion more died in the aftermath. But time has gone on, and the nation has rebuilt.
The new President is named Elijah B. Kagan, he is the former Governor of Georgia and, prior to that, he was a United States Senator. During the invasion he barely escaped the Alien attack, having left Washington for Georgia (for the holiday) just a few hours before Washington, DC bought it. The world has rebuilt. There has even been something of a baby boom in the United States, with the American population having just surpassed three hundred million (the American population has also been swelled with refugees- especially from Europe, Australia and Canada- many of whom arrived in the country in the first years after the war, as their native lands had much greater trouble rebuilding). Canada, with the loss of most of its major cities, has been absorbed into the United States.
Human nations have taken the alien technology, absorbed it, and adapted it to human uses. This has greatly assisted in rebuilding. It has also allowed the United States to build a large interstellar fleet. During the recent campaign President Kagan promised that he would find and destroy the aliens- and he meant it.
Lieutenant General Stephen Hiller, one of the greatest heroes of the Invasion (ranking, narrowly, behind former President James Whitmore), is now the commander of the newly-formed Eighth Air Force, a group of two hundred radically-advanced space fighters- upgraded versions of the Alien design. His boys are primarily responsible for the defense of the Earth. Also under the Command of the Eighth Air Force (which is based on the Moon), is the Advanced Long-Range Reconnaissance Drone program- a series of probes equipped with faster-than-light technology which are searching for the aliens. One of them returns: it has found them.
The news is too big to cover up. The President goes before a Joint Session of Congress and declares that he will dispatch the Fleet to destroy these monsters before they can ever menace the Earth again. When he says this, the world explodes.
In much of the world it is a moment of joy: humanity is finally going to pay the aliens back. The governments of nearly fifty nations volunteer to join in the mission. Elsewhere, the world explodes in protest. One of the protestors is David Levinson, an owner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the defeat of the first invasion. There is, the opponents claim, no indication that the aliens will attack again- an attack upon them could provoke further reprisals. Besides, we know so little of their culture: don't these aliens love their children too? What is being proposed is xenocide.
Other nations, along with domestic opponents, delay and delay the attack. While they're waiting, another alien force arrives to assault the Earth. The force, of roughly the same size as the original one, is beaten back by the US Navy and Air Force- with a terrible cost. During the attack the Aliens manage to use new weapons to bomb and destroy Denver (which was originally spared) and Paris (which has been rebuilt since the war). Virtually all of humanity now agrees: the destruction of the Aliens is necessary.
The United Nations sanctions the operation. As a result, other insist upon placing an international commander in charge of the operation. Moreover, the plans will no longer call for the destruction of the alien homeworld, but merely its containment David Levinson, who made a career out of studying the aliens after the invasion, is asked to come along on the invasion. He refuses. So General Hiller (he was promoted after the Battle of Luna) simply has the President draft him.
A career Naval officer, Admiral Tennyson Keyes, is the commander of the US side of the operation. During the invasion he was commander of a Ballistic Missile Submarine and successfully brought down an alien ship through an unauthorized nuclear release. (He will first be introduced as the Commander of the US 3rd Fleet early in the film). Implacably aggressive, his liberation from the seas has freed him to more closely emulate his hero: Commodore Stephen Decatur.
The overall commander of the invasion, Field Marshall Rene Jospin, is an incompetent officer who has retained his position through political skills alone. When Admiral Keyes proposes that the Allied Fleets assault the home system of the aliens from multiple points, he shoots down this idea as too time-consuming and as being contrary to standard doctrine for space operations. Moreover, it would require an earlier departure- whereas he wishes time to wait for foreign construction to catch up to that of the Americans, to allow a more equal sharing of the burden he says.
President Kagan (and others) oppose this, but are forced to consent because of domestic pressure. The departure is delayed for several months.
Finally the fleet is ordered to leave. However, a large percentage of the American fleet (nearly half) is to be left behind for Earth defense- depriving the fleet of much of its offensive firepower.
The journey to the alien homeworld involves three major warp transits. The first proceeds normally. At the second, the fleet is subjected to a serious attack. Admiral Keyes again calls for a different plan for the final battle, but Field Marshall Jospin refuses.
Finally, the fleet arrives in the alien home system. It's a trap- they are outnumbered and in poor position to fight. The allied forces fight gallantly, but are heavily damaged. Against the advice of Keyes, Field Marshall Jospin orders a general retreat, but is cut off. Defying orders, Keyes has his ships (and the British ones as well) jump further into the system, with the intention of suicidally attacking the Alien homeworld.
Levinson, who had made a detailed survey of the alien homeworld, reveals that the plant is extremely volatile. A series of coordinated attacks with a dozen super-powerful antimatter weapons (so powerful that they would shake entire continents), will cause a chain reaction which will tear the planet apart. The problem is that they strikes would need to be very closely coordinated, and the aliens are able to jam long-range communications. This means that someone leading the strike will have to direct it. General Hiller (who has been flying combat missions due to the terrible losses taken by his pilots) volunteers to fly the mission- along with Levinson.
The alien fleet, having disposed of the Allies, now turn upon the survivors, led by Keyes. Under withering fire, the strike against the alien homeworld is launched- with all one hundred survivors of Hiller's Force being assigned to deliver the dozen bombs.
As the aliens close, the strikes are launched. Gradually, one after another, the bombs hit their targets. But Hiller's pilots are dying rapidly. By the time they get to the twelfth bomb, there are only ten left.
One by one- the surviving fighters are lost. Finally, Hiller is forced to take his own plane in (from he and Levinson have been directing the strike). Despite horrific opposition- they succeed, and the alien homeworld begins to come apart at the seams.
As they escape, the threat from the alien fleet only grows worse. Their ships now fight suicidally. Hundreds of them close upon the battered survivors of the American fleet, hammering away at them. Space is filled with wreckage and weapons fire. Hiller and Levinson narrowly dodge alien fire.
Keyes orders the fleet to attempt to flee the aliens and flee along a long-shot escape route. They make a gallant go of it- but it's no use: the aliens keep coming. Finally, as the fleet is about to be destroyed and Hiller and Levinson are about to be all killed, the fighter chasing Hiller and Levinson is destroyed. The voice of former President Whitmore comes across the radio. US reinforcements have arrived.
The US Battleships, nearly twenty of which arrive at once, tear into the alien fleet, relieving Keyes battered ships. The new US ships are all equipped with an experimental propulsion system (the same used on the drone which found the Alien homeworld in the first place), and took just a few days to reach the alien homeworld. Virtually the entire US home fleet has been stripped away- a gamble which has now paid off.
Victorious, the heroes of the battle return home to fireworks and parades.
27 Jan 2005, 4:22 pm
...... It was no more than a third rate "War Of The Worlds" remake with preposterous "America saves the world.... again" overtones in the first place....... I think we should quietly forget about it, and instead look forward to the forthcoming WOTW personally.
) In fact those guys should be arrested for what they did to Godzilla, which in fact many fans just call "GINO"..."Godzilla In Name Only"
