{"id":72855,"date":"2015-03-04T14:52:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T14:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=72855"},"modified":"2015-03-04T14:52:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T14:52:21","slug":"independence-day-2-confirms-returning-star-and-a-new-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/independence-day-2-confirms-returning-star-and-a-new-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day 2 confirms returning star and a new one"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_72858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72858\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Independence-Day.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72858\" alt=\"Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith celebrating in Independence Day\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Independence-Day.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Independence-Day.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Independence-Day-600x255.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Independence-Day-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith celebrating in Independence Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Roland Emmerich&#8217;s <strong><em>Independence Day<\/em><\/strong> sequel is gathering speed, and the director has unveiled some new cast members, as well as a returning veteran.<\/p>\n<p>Emmerich Tweeted that Jeff Goldblum will be reprising his role as genius David Levinson from the 1996 film, and that he&#8217;ll be joined by <strong><em>The Hunger Games<\/em><\/strong>&#8216; Liam Hemsworth.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Excited to Officially announce <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiamHemsworth\">@LiamHemsworth<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JeffGoldblum?src=hash\">#JeffGoldblum<\/a> as the next two pieces of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IndependenceDay?src=hash\">#IndependenceDay<\/a> sequel <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/GNuvffKWI3\">pic.twitter.com\/GNuvffKWI3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roland Emmerich (@rolandemmerich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rolandemmerich\/status\/572935779774693377\">March 4, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hemsworth was previously mentioned in yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/independence-day-2-casts-survivors-778312\">THR<\/a> report, which included the fact that Jessie Usher will be playing the son of Will Smith&#8217;s character Captain Steve Hiller. Smith himself won&#8217;t be appearing in the sequel.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Independence Day 2<\/em> is released 24 June 2016. Keep up with the latest sci-fi news with the latest issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A familiar face returns for Independence Day 2 and a Hunger Games star signs on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":72858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[3269],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Independence-Day.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}