I love Independence Day.  Yes, even though the aliens are IBM compatible.  As crazy-cool CGI popcorn wonderland, it works for me. So I’m excited and not a little bit nervous about the upcoming sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence. But the studio managed to gather together a slew of the original cast, which makes me happy.  I even see Brent Spiner, whom I’d assumed met a grisly end at the…hands?…of the aliens in ID4.  Perhaps he’s coming back as Data? Ooooh!

The cast and crew held a “global press event” yesterday, and you can catch all the pertinents on the livestream.  The money shot from this event is the “Moon Tug”, a craft cobbled together from alien tech. It looks like the love child of Ripley’s work-loader and an AT-AT.  I can’t wait to see it throw down…

Here’s the basic movie 411:

We always knew they were coming back.  After INDEPENDENCE DAY redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global spectacle on an unimaginable scale.  Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet.  But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force.  Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women  can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.

Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox, Brent Spiner, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jessie Usher, Maika Monroe, Sela Ward, Angelababy

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Enjoy these pics from the event — clicky for the full-res images. IDR hits theaters June 24th, 2016.

EXCLUSIVE – A general view of atmosphere seen at the “Independence Day Resurgence” Global Production Event on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Twentieth Century Fox/AP Images)

EXCLUSIVE – Liam Hemsworth, Maika Monroe and Jeff Goldblum seen at the “Independence Day Resurgence” Global Production Event on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Twentieth Century Fox/AP Images)

EXCLUSIVE – Bill Pullman and Director/Writer Roland Emmerich seen at the “Independence Day Resurgence” Global Production Event on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Twentieth Century Fox/AP Images)

EXCLUSIVE – Jessie Usher and Maika Monroe seen at the “Independence Day Resurgence” Global Production Event on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Twentieth Century Fox/AP Images)

EXCLUSIVE – Bill Pullman and Grace Huang seen at the “Independence Day Resurgence” Global Production Event on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Twentieth Century Fox/AP Images)

EXCLUSIVE – Cast of “Independence Day Resurgence” seen at the “Independence Day Resurgence” Global Production Event on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Twentieth Century Fox/AP Images)

EXCLUSIVE – Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman seen at the “Independence Day Resurgence” Global Production Event on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Twentieth Century Fox/AP Images)

EXCLUSIVE – Jessie Usher and Vivica A. Fox seen at the “Independence Day Resurgence” Global Production Event on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Twentieth Century Fox/AP Images)

EXCLUSIVE – Brent Spiner and Jeff Goldblum seen at the “Independence Day Resurgence” Global Production Event on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Twentieth Century Fox/AP Images)

EXCLUSIVE – Brent Spiner, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox, Bill Pullman, Director/Writer Roland Emmerich, Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth Maika Monroe, Grace Huang, Jessie Usher and Sela Ward seen at the “Independence Day Resurgence” Global Production Event on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Twentieth Century Fox/AP Images)

EXCLUSIVE – A general view of atmosphere seen at the “Independence Day Resurgence” Global Production Event on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Twentieth Century Fox/AP Images)

EXCLUSIVE – Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Director/Writer Roland Emmerich and Liam Hemsworth seen at the “Independence Day Resurgence” Global Production Event on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Twentieth Century Fox/AP Images)

EXCLUSIVE – seen at the “Independence Day Resurgence” Global Production Event on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Twentieth Century Fox/AP Images)

EXCLUSIVE – Brent Spiner and Vivica A. Fox seen at the “Independence Day Resurgence” Global Production Event on Monday, June 22, 2015, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for Twentieth Century Fox/AP Images)