Amph ID4: Resurgence kicks the tires and lights the fires in 2016 (ID4 3 to follow?)

It was mentioned in the 2001 press release that the son of Russelle Casse was supposed to be a fighter pilot in the film. I guess James Duvall got too old for the role.

 

http://www.blastr.com/2015-6-23/ind...sis-first-bts-images-and-concept-art-revealed

 

Maybe that's where Will Smith's character gets his off - screen demise.

 

There's another piece of concept art that was released which is similar. There are 747s on a runway being sucked up. It looks like some sort of giant harvester consuming the whole city. It makes sense these aliens would be doing that because they are after the natural resources like locusts.

 

I'm thinking a swarm invasion like in the Starship Trooper films. For some reason I always thought the alien that died at Area 51 implied there would be an invasion with large mech suits to sort through ground wreckage to help with the harvest.

 

Wouldn't being susceptible to Will Smith punches by definition mean that they're not stronger than a normal human?

 

I know the first line of defense of hybrid technology fails. The aliens are able to land a ground invasion with millions landing around the planet all at once. Probably harvest resources on the ground. I'm thinking they are using some sort of anti-gravity assimilator like a giant vacuum to collect and break up natural resources.

 

Does anyone know or a link or copy of the film which has the deleted scene where Russell Casse flies a biplane into the destroyer and not the fighter jet? I remembering seeing it, but have no source to it.

 

Why did they not release at least a teaser for next year today?

 

Cool. Biplanes make everything better.

 

That's how the tie-in novel ends. I don't think it works quite as well for the above mentioned reasons.

 

I actually half saw the teaser for ID42 when I was seeing Genisys, half-saw as in I was walking in at the end and heard Bill Pullman's voice, heard Brent Spiner's "dieeeeeeee" line and a couple of digital noise title cards & a date. No biggie. Not too concerned that I missed it.

 

There is some GIF teasers on Twitter too. I want to see the teaser from the film.

 

Yeah, I went to Youtube to see if I could find it. No luck.

 

I'm thinking the beams for the destroyers which focused the direct energy weapon will also be some sort of giant vacuum which sucks up debris and harvests the natural resources. I wonder if it's part of the original designs.

 

The next phase of the War of 96 called for a ground invasion of some kind which was destroyed in the destruction of the mothership. It seems like after the major cities are all destroyed, they land, wipe out what life remains on the ground, and begin using craft to gather debris.

Since there will be a ground invasion in the second film, this must be what happens next.

 

If the aliens had giant suction beams, why'd they bother with a ground invasion force? For that matter, why bother razing all those human cities when you can just get straight to vacuuming?

 

Are you saying this movie is going to suck?



I'll see myself out.

 

I'm still surprised it's the same aliens. I thought they were a roving hoard that pillaged and moved on. We blew up their mother ship. Was there a Super-Mother Ship that deploys mother ships all over the universe?

Also you'd think going through all their tech we'd have found other intelligent life opposed to them and sought an alliance.