independence day resurgence film trailer

So in my films there are always planes doing strange things: falling from the sky, or being lifted up in the sky, and big waves. “I always think that, most of the time, you like shows and stories that you fear the most. Other global landmarks destroyed during the alien invasion in the movie includes Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper and London’s historic Big Ben clock tower.Įmmerich is well-known for wreaking on-screen havoc in countries around the world through his films such as “2012” and “The Day After Tomorrow” - with his go-to types of devastation being tsunamis and plane crashes, mainly because he is afraid of water and air travel. However, he could only include one Asian city so he chose Singapore. Emmerich said that he had also thought of including Taipei’s 101 mall in the movie. “We knew this has to be one angle, with the bridge and a little left side,” he said.īut Singapore wasn’t the only Asian city that came to mind. No other parts of Singapore came to mind but MBS. When the idea was born to have an Asian city getting sucked up, which has to stand in for Asia, I kind of said: ‘What about Singapore?'” He said: “I was doing a press junket for ‘White House Down’ in Singapore, and actually we went up to the Marina (Bay) Sands hotel and I loved the swimming pool up there. When Yahoo Singapore spoke to director Roland Emmerich during a recent press junket in Sydney, the 60-year-old said that he had fallen in love with the popular tourist destination during an earlier visit to the Republic to promote another movie, “White House Down”. The “Independence Day: Resurgence” movie trailer caught many Singaporeans by surprise by showing the iconic Marina Bay Sands (MBS) integrated resort being sucked up into the air during an alien invasion. Roland Emmerich, the director of “Independence Day: Resurgence”.

Independence day resurgence film trailer