Charlotte Gainsbourg of Nymphomaniac is joining the cast for Roland Emmerich's belated sequel, Independence Day 2.
NewsWill Smith may not be coming back for Independence Day 2, but others who have faced cinematic oblivion are unafraid to join the fray. Take Melancholia’s Charlotte Gainsbourg, for instance.
Indeed, Gainsbourg is in closing talks to star in the anticipated Roland Emmerich revisit of when aliens attacked Earth in 1996, as well as just about every disaster and sci-fi movie cliché on the books. Thus enter Independence Day 2, a sequel that stars Liam Hemsowrth, Jessie Usher, and Jeff Goldblum as a cable TV repairman and alien-defeating genius extraordinaire, David Levinson. Also expected to return is Bill Pullman, who played middle America’s dreamy tough-but-sensitive war hero, yet anti-war, non-political party denominational, St. Crispin’s Day Speech a-givin’ President of the United States/ace Rogue Squadron leader.
Gainsbourg most recently made an impression by playing older Joe in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac. She also appeared in von Trier’s Antichrist and Melancholia, the latter of which featured a literal big blue ball of apathetic hate called “Melancholia” crashing into Earth and erasing all traces of human existence. If there is any empirical evidence of an overlap between audiences for that film and Independence Day, I’d be curious.
Independence Day 2 is arriving early for its fireworks next year on June 24, 2016.
